Equinox in Focus: Personalized Ship SKINs

[Arthur_Aihaken]

I watch mine on my main.

[DrysonBennington]

I think being able to adjust the shape of a ship, within the bounds of the model box would be even more cool than skins.

Basically, the model could be skewed and changed based on the grab boxes of the model box itself.

Stats however would not change.

[Uriel_the_Flame]

@DrysonBennington

adjust the shape of a ship, within the bounds of the model box would be even more cool than skins.

Basically, the model could be skewed and changed based on the grab boxes of the model box itself

Elongated Thoraxes when?

[Arthur_Aihaken]

@DrysonBennington

I think being able to adjust the shape of a ship, within the bounds of the model box would be even more cool than skins.

Yeah, pass…

[CCP_Swift]

@Guier_Rollard

I like the recent changes to the SkinR tool (they’re a step in the right direction). I especially like being able to link my listings. This will help us to be able to share our skins directly with our clients / be able to trade between alts.

However, I’d like to address some things. It looks like the new skill for skin save slots isn’t working correctly. According to the information on the skill “Studio Management”, it is supposed to give an additional 5 slots per level. I got 5 for the first level, but after training to level 3, I’m still sitting at 10 save slots when I should be sitting at 20 save slots. This needs to be corrected asap.

One of the biggest bugs with the SkinR system that needs to be corrected is that, when you attempt to edit a previously saved skin, it resets your angles. This is all of your Orbital, Offset, Rotate & Scale settings. This is happening when we select the pattern, the color with the pattern, & when you try to use the skin with another ship. Please, fix this soon. It’s kind of hard to use saved patterns as skin lines, if the pattern doesn’t actually let you edit it correctly.

It would be appreciated if we could preview patterns / skin color options we haven’t paid for yet. This would allow us to make an actually informed choice in regards to if we’d like to purchase those items or not. There’s a lot of frustration going around over this issue.

We’ve also noticed that the skins don’t always turn out (in space) how they appear in the SkinR tool, once they’ve been sequenced. This is incredibly maddening, and causes the folks using the SkinR tool to quit doing so because they’re not receiving what they paid for.

A couple of things that would be appreciated, in regards to the listings, would be the ability to modify/cancel our listings, and some sort of skill that helps to reduce the 30% tax.

I know you guys are, probably, restricted in regards to modifying that tax. However, right now, that tax is effectively causing a lot of folks to boycott the SkinR tool. Even if we’re not boycotting it, there’s a lot less folks trying to sell skins for profit than there could be.

You would get us to use our Plex on the SkinR tool, more, if it was cheaper in general. As things are at the moment, there’s a lot of players indicating that they will not buy skins from the Paragon store because they just cost too much.

Hey! Thank you for the feedback. Many of the issues you’ve highlighted, such as the pattern reset with the editing of SKINs, and select hulls not properly displaying, are in the process of being addressed and we hope to have an update out pretty soon for you. Without giving too much away, we totally agree that a preview system - where you can simulate colors and patterns before purchasing - is a fantastic quality of life addition. The SKINR tool is absolutely something we plan to build on, not just in the summer but in future expansions. Definitely keep an eye out for news items next week, and you’ll hopefully be pleasantly surprised!

[Arthur_Aihaken]

@CCP_Swift

Definitely keep an eye out for news items next week, and you’ll hopefully be pleasantly surprised!

And maybe (hint) a tax reduction?

[Ploing]

@CCP_Swift

The SKINR tool is absolutely something we plan to build on, not just in the summer but in future expansions.

So you want to sell a chassis with 3 wheels and the bodywork and paintwork will come next year?

[Geo_Eclipse_Oksaras]

Nah think bigger. Borg

[Eloken_Toralen]

@CCP_Swift

Thank you for the feedback.

Completely ignored the posts pointing out the %30 tax rate is pure money grabbing extortion. Why do you do this?

[Okuda]

A month has passed.

[Harley-1998_Davidson]

so when will the Sequencing skill books be available ???

[Guier_Rollard]

I don’t know about the actual skillbooks, but you can buy the skills by right clicking on them in the skill page.

[Harley-1998_Davidson]

oh ok

[CCP_Swift]

Hey there @Okuda - this looks like it may be a problem with your graphics drivers, distortion like this is not something we’ve seen reports of previously.

If updating your drivers doesn’t prove fruitful, please file a technical support ticket and the GMs will do what they can to resolve your issue.

It should look like this:

[Arthur_Aihaken]

@CCP_Swift

Hey there @Okuda - this looks like it may be a problem with your graphics drivers,

My thumbnails in SKINR look distorted like these as well (older graphics card).

[Okuda]

Hello there.

I am on a mac so i will file a bug report.

[Arthur_Aihaken]

Mac as well for me.

[Kalul]

@CCP_Swift

I want to pitch this forward, though sincerely believe you must be thinking about this: Multiple patterns slots per skin.

Having a single pattern slot dramatically limits the creativity. The power we’d get with even a secondary pattern slot would be massive! Please add this soon.

Also, the colors are extremely limited. We should at least be allowed to lighten or darken the colors within a range, if not just have full color wheel capability. You could still focus on specialty colors, and put more attention to patterns, where the creativity really comes from.

I want to like this system. I really do. The null changes have been almost entirely negative. The new skinr tool has all the appearances of a broken app from the google store. Many of us clearly want it to be something special. You guys can wait until we just don’t want to engage with it anymore, at which time, you’ll have a skeleton population (probably myself included) still dabbling at it. This sort of feature is often one of my biggest time sinks and enjoyments in games that allow it. Now that EVE has this type of system, I’ve invested massive amounts of time and resources into the system. Please make it worth that investment. It has so much potential. To date, we’ve only received hot air and vaguely worded promises of things to come.

[Kalul]

@CCP_Swift

I’d like to also pitch the ability to select a limited zone on a ship where a pattern would be applied, not just the layer.

To clarify, a drag box, to select a location that will be affected, or perhaps not affected by the pattern.

Or maybe an eraser, to clean the pattern off areas selectively where we’d prefer it not to be.

[Arthur_Aihaken]

@CCP_Swift
Per the above requests regarding patterns:
• A second pattern/color slot would be phenomenal (but not essential). While being able to apply said pattern(s) to limited areas would be neat, this isn’t a deal breaker (I’m not entirely sure what level of development that would require in any event - probably more than we suspect).
• More patterns please!

Could we possibly get some “Personalization” options for EverMarks or PLEX? A New tab under the Personalization section, ie: “F/X”:
• Engine glow, bastion glow, hull lighting (window lights), floodlights (the lights that shine out from the front of the hull)
• Any and all manner of special effects (fine with PLEX only for these), such as smoke, flame, lightning, etc.