I remember the days of hearing ‘Eve is dangerous, this isn’t Hello Kitty Online’, and so forth. So for funsies, how about being able to fly with ‘Hello Kitty’ or some parody of it on your ship?
Yea, I know some gankers would LOVE this as well… the humor in it would be well appreciated by their victims too, I’m sure!
I’ve thought about it, and hello kitty would be a great addition to EVE’s skin system, but not as great as my little pony. Could you imagine a typhoon with twilight sparkle on top? Or what about a Raven with Celestia? Perfect. I see no problem with this at all.
This skin was released as a breast cancer awarenes scheme and CCP donated the revenue to an organisation fighting breast cancer. Not at all a “hello kitty” joke. I fly my pink mining barges witrh a lot of pride.
personally I find the lack of some truly ridiculous ship skins to be kinda immersion breaking. yes, eve is supposed to be a dark and gritty dystopia… but you know whats dystopian as ■■■■… a nigh immortal half-insane demigod with more isk than some planetary governments who decides, on a whim, that he’s gonna paint all his terrifyingly powerful warships hot neon pink, because who the hell is going to tell him he can’t.
in the lore, we are a barely constrained power that even the empires look at with concern, I fly around in a ship large enough to destroy entire cities with a single blast, and yet, somehow, painting a giant carebear on the front is not gritty enough.
also now I totally want an avatar skin with a carebear on the front shooting its doomsday out of the stomach like a carebear stare. so much so that if a skin like that ever came out I would drop everything to train into and acquire an avatar for that sole purpose.
Also, a framework to browse people’s designs and purchase them for ISK could be very interesting. Creators get paid, and the less creative among us get more skins to choose from.