Skins are great but need to have a reason for use if CCP expects the skins to earn ISK on the market.
Skins should have the following bonuses: Just a few examples.
Tier I
2% bonus to locking speed
2% bonus to shield or armor HP
2% bonus to shield or armor resistance in a specific type or 1% across the entire resistance base
Tier II
3% bonus to mwd or ab velocity
-3% bonus to inertia
-2% bonus to drone damage received
Tier III
3% bonus to ECM, Sensor Dampeners, Target Distruptors and Target Painters effectiveness
2% bonus to ship warp speed
Tier IV
-3% bonus to incoming damage received from thermal, explosive, kinetic or EM based ammo types.
-2% bonus to incoming damage received from thermal, explosive, kinetic and EM based ammo types.
+3% hull hit points
Tier V
-5% to repair speed and +5 to repair amount of ancillary based repair modules
+4% to capacitor recharge amount per cycle
-5% to smart bomb damage received for kinetic, explosive, EM or thermal
+5% for all hull resistances
Why don’t we just go straight to a PLEX injector for ships? 1 PLEX per 60-second cycle gives you a 10% damage boost. Let’s give ships a reason to carry PLEX again!
But it doesn’t stop there. Oh no it doesn’t! Call within the next 17 minutes 37 seconds and get an unlimited supply of Quafe Zero! Cause when you die from lack of knowledge but plenty of skill points why not die going really really fast.
Folks were pretty choked when SKINs changed such that they could no longer be destroyed. Some of you may recall that they were unique hulls originally…
Side effects of constant comsumption of Quafe Zero include:
Memory loss
Lack of judgement
Lack of inhibitions
Memory loss
Spontaneous clone explosion
Belief that you can buy the station at Jita 4-4
Memory loss
Security standing loss
Memory loss
and much much more.
Skins having bonuses is much the same as using different types of camouflage on tanks, planes or warships.
Some skins reduce the the ability of the enemy to lock your ship as nano-particles rearranged the configuration of the outer hull while others would interact with the particles of space to reduce drag on the ship while warping that would also increase the velocity of the ship based on the same principle of particle interaction.
Other skins would allow capacitor recharge time bonuses as well as a larger capacitor capacity as the skin would absorb solar energy then convert it into usable energy.
I see your point.
But just like in Word of Tanks where you can buy different carmouflage for your tank, giving you a bonus (only) for real money, this would be just bad game design.
If CCP would be looking for a way to piss people off, this would be one.
would be looking for a way to piss people off, this would be one.