# SKINR - cheaper skins with durations ? (a BPO-BPC style system) and other thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** Player Features & Ideas\ **Created:** [December 12, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/skinr-cheaper-skins-with-durations-a-bpo-bpc-style-system-and-other-thoughts/502896 "2025-12-12T17:42:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Terra\_Aryzel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/terra_aryzel/32/484546_2.png) [@Terra\_Aryzel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Terra_Aryzel)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/skinr-cheaper-skins-with-durations-a-bpo-bpc-style-system-and-other-thoughts/502896/1 "2025-12-12T17:42:08Z")
Back in game after long break and thought the new SkinR system would be great. But the cost seems crazy 50-100-150 PLEX for a specific hull, can easily be 100x the cost of the ship! Thats a big commitment if I’m not 100% sure about the style, would like to try before committing so much isk/plex. And I don’t know how long I’ll use that hull for, maybe just a few weeks or months until until I move onto something else. Perhaps the full cost skins currently in game could be a bit like BPOs, permanent and unlimited applications (and could be resold?) and from those skin-BPOs players could make Skin equivalent of BPCs (1-10 applications and the application lasts for 1 week to 3 months, research up like BPOs, BPCs to increase applications/durations). Those BPC skins would be fairly cheap to produce, maybe related to typical hull cost, so if you get a hull and want to customise it you know you could put something nice on it for 10-20% of the hull cost and if you find something you really adore you can buy the BPO of it. (maybe a skill/system to turn a Skin-BPC into a Skin-BPO, as figuring out how to remake the design to make the BPO could be tricky). Custom EvE ship colour/patterns are everywhere in the marketing, but the system seems to want you to be rich and fair static in what ships you use. Surely the reverse would make CCP more money, have everyone encouraged to throw new designs on every new hull they buy! ---
**Author:** ![Snowflake\_Tem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/snowflake_tem/32/432971_2.png) [@Snowflake\_Tem](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Snowflake_Tem)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 11:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/skinr-cheaper-skins-with-durations-a-bpo-bpc-style-system-and-other-thoughts/502896/2 "2025-12-14T11:06:11Z")
SKIN-R it’s just not quite right it’s almost there, I can feel the potential bubbling yet it is flawed, certainly - especially as a corp / livery / identity system. The gangstjóri said they’re working in it. I’d hold my breath but i need the air. ---
**Author:** ![Terra\_Aryzel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/terra_aryzel/32/484546_2.png) [@Terra\_Aryzel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Terra_Aryzel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/skinr-cheaper-skins-with-durations-a-bpo-bpc-style-system-and-other-thoughts/502896/3 "2025-12-17T16:37:43Z")
Did some more play with the SkinR system the last few days, as there is a 50% sale on generating cost (still high but might as well make a few skins now for myself while its less crazy). - Wanted to pick between colours but the design elements costs in the Collection shop area of the SkinR UI are expensive, so went to Jita and ended up getting 300 different colours/patterns for around 100plex total, most of which were unlimited use. - Designed one design each for 4 of the ships I think I will use regularly, hopefully I’ve picked right. ---
**Author:** ![Terra\_Aryzel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/terra_aryzel/32/484546_2.png) [@Terra\_Aryzel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Terra_Aryzel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/skinr-cheaper-skins-with-durations-a-bpo-bpc-style-system-and-other-thoughts/502896/4 "2025-12-17T16:50:32Z")
Also the Kerr, Ferminonic sequencer stuff is just annoying, adds a small cost and buying hurdle at the end of the process. ”Got your 80 Plex design tweaked just right? Well now you have to go to regional hub to buy 1 Plex more worth of random stuff to make it. And the drop rates are low enough that the market might have being bought up and set to a new high price today! Enjoy that new design” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/skinr-cheaper-skins-with-durations-a-bpo-bpc-style-system-and-other-thoughts/502896/5 "2026-03-17T16:51:21Z")
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