We've all seen the shiny screen shots of the chrome paint jobs (especially on the Cutter), so when the "chromed" paint job became available some time over Christmas, I snapped it up for my Conda.
Unfortunately, to my disappointment, when I looked it looked at it in outfitting, it looked more like cardboard sprayed with cheap silver spray paint than the shiny chrome finish that I'd been hoping for. Anyway, I didn't think that much of it at the time - thought either my graphics settings were not right or that it just didn't quite look the same on Conda's angular panels - so I forgot about it until it was on sale again this month.
This time, I bought it for the Cutter (which I acquired since Christmas) and for the Corvette (which I now nearly have), feeling relatively safe in the knowledge that at least the Cutter would look as good as expected... Wrong!
It wasn't until now that I read some of the recent threads and picked up on the fact that buying the 'chromed' paintjob doesn't actually get you the shiny 'chrome' finish that we've all seen on other people's ships. No - apparently 'chromed' and 'chrome' are completely different... of course... silly me for not realising! (?) And apparently (not surprisingly) I'm far from being the only one who was confused.
So, I can't help feeling a bit disappointed (that I don't get to have a shiny Cutter, or indeed a shiny anything, for that matter) and also a bit cheated (because I spent real life £credits, in good faith, based on a product description that I feel is misleading and open to confusion).
I'm sure there must be quite a few similarly disappointed people out there, so I'd like to propose that FDev:
1. Renames the 'Chromed' paint job to make it clear that it's not actually 'chrome'.
And
2. Either gives everyone who bought one of them the other one for free or offers them the opportunity to swap to their preferred choice (incurring zero cost to FDev in either case).
And same again for 'gold' and 'golden'!
Unfortunately, to my disappointment, when I looked it looked at it in outfitting, it looked more like cardboard sprayed with cheap silver spray paint than the shiny chrome finish that I'd been hoping for. Anyway, I didn't think that much of it at the time - thought either my graphics settings were not right or that it just didn't quite look the same on Conda's angular panels - so I forgot about it until it was on sale again this month.
This time, I bought it for the Cutter (which I acquired since Christmas) and for the Corvette (which I now nearly have), feeling relatively safe in the knowledge that at least the Cutter would look as good as expected... Wrong!
It wasn't until now that I read some of the recent threads and picked up on the fact that buying the 'chromed' paintjob doesn't actually get you the shiny 'chrome' finish that we've all seen on other people's ships. No - apparently 'chromed' and 'chrome' are completely different... of course... silly me for not realising! (?) And apparently (not surprisingly) I'm far from being the only one who was confused.
So, I can't help feeling a bit disappointed (that I don't get to have a shiny Cutter, or indeed a shiny anything, for that matter) and also a bit cheated (because I spent real life £credits, in good faith, based on a product description that I feel is misleading and open to confusion).
I'm sure there must be quite a few similarly disappointed people out there, so I'd like to propose that FDev:
1. Renames the 'Chromed' paint job to make it clear that it's not actually 'chrome'.
And
2. Either gives everyone who bought one of them the other one for free or offers them the opportunity to swap to their preferred choice (incurring zero cost to FDev in either case).
And same again for 'gold' and 'golden'!
