I do not want to waste a slot to compensate CCP’s development incompetence.
I have a skin in where I need all the pattern slots for actual patterns so that the skin looks good. But since the patterns repeat on the back of the ship where I do not want them, I’d have to compromise my great skin, which is not acceptable.
We already have the Projection feature in SKINR. All CCP has to do is give an option to ONLY project the pattern on the visible portion of the ship and not mirror it on the other side.
You can move some (not all) patterns around such that they only appear on parts of your ship without having to use a second pattern to block it out. One such example is any of the skulls.
Sarathiel. The Exo-Spinal should only show up on the front, not on the back side. And I use 2 of these in different color shades, which occupies both available pattern slots.
The Trident W should only show up on the top side of the hull. For shits and giggles, I tried the Exit Marked to hide the W half on the bottom. It sorta worked with Normal blend mode, scaled up and Projection to place it. However, I do not have the necessary Pattern slots to do that.