Achievement-Locked Paintjobs

DemiserofD

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One thing that has constantly bothered me is that paintjobs have nothing to do with our skills or achievements. As a consequence, right now, CG skins are literally the most prestigious, because they're often only available once. Anyone can buy a skin, but even an ugly CG skin can only be had if you happened to be here during that one week six years ago or whatever.

I'd really appreciate some skins that you could buy, but which were only accessible if you had achieved certain objectives. You know, maybe if you are trade elite 5, you can get a special glowing type 8 paintjob.

That way it's a sign of prestige, too.

As-is, my only real sign of prestige is that I can tell people I've earned all my ARX, which isn't exactly good for the game's bottom line.
 

AngryAntz

AngryAntz
As a general rule I prefer things that some things should remain exclusive.

However your idea has merit, I wouldn't object to a rank 5 and an appropriate time gate (year or 2 after).

It's hard playing space barbies when people have stuff I can't access. :)
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Usually achievement-locked stuff is awarded when you make the achievement, rather than having to pay for it afterward, so that might see some pushback on that.

The closest thing I can see to this right now is the decals and skins/ship kits awarded for Titan destruction, but those weren’t things which required that significant of an effort with the 2 million bond requirement (and I don’t think anybody ever lost out on them due to attacking a Titan too early as they were always destroyed within a week). Not to mention how bugs resulted in them being handed out freely even if you didn’t attack the Titan, for at least the first three (if I recall correctly).

… and you also got them without hitting the Titan for Cocijo if you were simply present in Sol. Which is how my main account has two Titan destroyed decal levels and my alt has one even though neither has ever shot at a Titan heat core.

Anyway, yeah, I’m not going down that particular rabbit hole deeply, mainly just for saying that thing re the paywall. It would lead both to questions of why you still have to pay to get your achievement skin and why you can’t just outright pay for it without any work (presuming on the latter but I don’t believe it’s too far-fetched).
 

BackToTheMud

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The only cosmetic you can earn at any time from normal gameplay is the interceptor bobble head. That it is the only one is quite frankly a travesty. It shouldn't be hard to have paintjobs, bobble heads, decals etc for having traveled far enough, mined enough, stolen enough, or killed enough.
A hutton mug to place on your dashboard is the obvious reward for doing making a trip that is legendary in the community. The trip is not what it used to be, but fdev could easily set the requirements.
 

DemiserofD

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BackToTheMud said:
The only cosmetic you can earn at any time from normal gameplay is the interceptor bobble head. That it is the only one is quite frankly a travesty. It shouldn't be hard to have paintjobs, bobble heads, decals etc for having traveled far enough, mined enough, stolen enough, or killed enough.
A hutton mug to place on your dashboard is the obvious reward for doing making a trip that is legendary in the community. The trip is not what it used to be, but fdev could easily set the requirements.
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That's it exactly. Like, ideally we'd combine the two. Like, you get the mug by default - but you could then buy colors for the mug or put decals on it and such.
 
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