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!