Horizons Federal Corvette Paint Jobs???? WHY is this ship consistently passed over by the paint job creators?

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Federal Corvette Paint Jobs???? WHY is this ship consistently passed over by the paint job creators?

Nice to see the new SRV paint jobs have gone live on the Frontier store! [up] I just picked up the Vivid Pack myself and am looking forward to trying all of them out. I was amazed by how many variants there are available for the SRV now, and at the same time, I couldn't help feeling a bit annoyed that we have yet to see a single offering for the Federal Corvette! [weird]

I recall Sandy S. mentioning something about Corvette paint jobs coming to the game during one of the first Beta streams several weeks ago now. But as of today's 2.2 release, there is still a whopping ZERO on offer for what I believe is one of the most popular ships in the game! :|

If Frontier can whip up what looks to be 18 individual SRV paint jobs since the last add-on refresh, is it too much to ask for even a quarter of that number be created for the Corvette pilots? I'm getting tired of the basic gray which we have all been literally stuck with for over a year!
 
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Velanko

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i think their would be more skins if more people actually had one. but since the grind for rep is too intense for most gamers the corvette is simply under used. but atleast the cutter is having the same cosmetic issue
 

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Velanko said:
i think their would be more skins if more people actually had one. but since the grind for rep is too intense for most gamers the corvette is simply under used. but atleast the cutter is having the same cosmetic issue
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I doubt it has anything to do with the price of admission. Neither the rank requirement nor the price is too much for anyone who plays ED on a regular basis. When the Corvette was released, I already met both as did plenty of other ED vets.

Most ED vets I know around here own a Vette and/or a Cutter and many of those use them as their daily drivers. The Corvette has replaced the Python as my daily driver for any combat related activities simply because it kicks so much butt as a combat ship. I still love my Python, but nothing can run a pair of C3 Beams like the Corvette can.

Whatever the reason, this situation really needs to be remedied sooner than later. Considering the over the top number of paint jobs and ship kits for some of the smaller ships which is now bordering on insanity, the level of imbalance going on here for pilots of both the Corvette and the Cutter is getting ridiculous.
 
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GG7 said:
I doubt it has anything to do with the price of admission. Neither the rank requirement nor the price is too much for anyone who plays ED on a regular basis.
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Unfortunately, it is.

Especially the ranking... I've been staying around Federation stations while being allied to the relevant factions upon them for ages, but still no progress missions. I want to access the Federal Assault Ship, but I'm going to be eternally one rank away from it. Heaven knows how long it'll take to get the Federal Corvette, which I'd actually quite like!
 

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Lokus Midgard said:
Unfortunately, it is.

Especially the ranking... I've been staying around Federation stations while being allied to the relevant factions upon them for ages, but still no progress missions. I want to access the Federal Assault Ship, but I'm going to be eternally one rank away from it. Heaven knows how long it'll take to get the Federal Corvette, which I'd actually quite like!
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How many hours of game time do you have in ED? And when did you first start playing?

Its true that those who have started in with ED within the last year are having to deal with a lot more grinding than those of us who started earlier than that. FD made some rather annoying changes to the ranking progress which would effect anyone new to the game as of late 2015 early 2016.

But while I am aware of the difficulty newer players face with both ranking and earnings, there are still hundreds of thousands of us who are well beyond the rank requirement for the Corvette and are at or near to approaching a billion+ credits of total assets. This is why I don't agree with the theory that the adoption level of the Corvette is low. I actually believe it is quite high. As I said earlier, everyone I know who plays Elite owns a Corvette and/or a Cutter.
 
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Mercury7

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It seems to me FD don't want anyone flying the bigger ships. They're making it very hard to earn anything like decent credits now doing ANYTHING (a serious problem when your ship insurance is in the low tens of millions :mad: ), combined with a lack of paint jobs for the larger ships, is just screaming "well, screw you! Use a smaller ship!".
 
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Mav359

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Im the same with my Cutter, all i want to do is paint it black and theres already a paint job is sitting on a server shelf out the back somewhere. I don't see why paint jobs should be related to how many ships there are out there, they are just paint jobs FD can create and sell them regardless.

As for the grind, ouch!!! took me 12 hard days grinding the Empire ranks to get to Duke & the Cutter. I'll be ducking that for a while before being ready to go back and to the Fed grinding.
 

rrobes

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It's the old chicken and the egg quandary. You need the ships to make the big money and you need the money and the grind to get the big ships. Smaller ships are impossible to get capital fast because of the economies of scale, you are stuck. I concentrated on bounty hunting which if done right can net you serious capital.To this day it is my biggest source of CR, I bagged an MPC Anaconda for 384K bounty just tonight, and that was one of several.

If you want something, you have to put your head down and grind. FD indeed has to be careful to balance things out and you have to go by today's rules. Just think, in a year someone will be calling current times the better days.
 

Viscera

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It can have nothing to do with how many have them. There are skins available for the cobra mk iv and that is an exclusive ship that many players do not, and can not, gain access too.
 

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GG7 said:
How many hours of game time do you have in ED? And when did you first start playing?

Its true that those who have started in with ED within the last year are having to deal with a lot more grinding than those of us who started earlier than that. FD made some rather annoying changes to the ranking progress which would effect anyone new to the game as of late 2015 early 2016.

But while I am aware of the difficulty newer players face with both ranking and earnings, there are still hundreds of thousands of us who are well beyond the rank requirement for the Corvette and are at or near to approaching a billion+ credits of total assets. This is why I don't agree with the theory that the adoption level of the Corvette is low. I actually believe it is quite high. As I said earlier, everyone I know who plays Elite owns a Corvette and/or a Cutter.
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Apparently joined here in March of 2015 and have flown a lot of hours. If ranking weren't apparently broken, I'd be having a lot more fun with at least diversity of ships. :)

I can't say I know anybody who even has an Anaconda, let alone Corvette or Cutter. Just look around the forum... Most people aren't discussing experiences with those ships.
 

Certacito

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Maybe, paint jobs for the Corvette is like an astray on a motorbike, completely pointless as it just looks phenomenal in the original colour :D Of course, I am only joking, but then I have the Black Friday paint for it and it looks amazing in that....well, when I can see it against the backdrop of space that is :D :D :D
 
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Cmdr. Numa

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According to Inara statistics, there are plenty of ships that see less use than the Corvette and Cutter that have the full range of standard paintjobs. So that can't be the reason.
 

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Cmdr. Numa said:
According to Inara statistics, there are plenty of ships that see less use than the Corvette and Cutter that have the full range of standard paintjobs. So that can't be the reason.
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Thank you! :)

And anyone curious about what the community is flying on any given day... Just fly to one of the more popular stations and have a look at their "Traffic Report". As Numa correctly pointed out above, the Corvette is more popular than several ships that do have paint jobs available in the FD store.

As for Anaconda use as well as other large expensive ships... I don't know of anyone in ED who doesn't own these ships. But casual personal observations are not a very accurate way of determining community engagement with a particular ship.

If you want the ultimate proof of just how popular the Corvette, Anaconda and Cutter actually are across the entire ED community base... wait until the next big cargo focused community goal and check the Traffic Report for the station (s) receiving the required commodity. Those large, high cargo capacity ships always dominate the traffic reports during those events by a HUGE percentage.
 
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Sans Daring

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Yes, but again, as has been said, if the market was there, FD would be there, like any other seller. I suspect its because the smaller ships disperse a wider market of ownership which is different to use. So those who have Corvettes, and have that sort of money behind them, probably have a cobra or would probably spend that tiny amount of rebuying one if they like the skin. So you have all those people who use Cobras, all those who can afford Cobras, and those who might own a Cobra but not be using it, and all those who don't own one but could afford one if they like the paintjob.

Compare that to the Corvette. How many people fall into those categories?

Sounds like they will rectify it, but I would think, from an observer, that would be my reasoning from what I can see. Could be wrong, might be a technical reason, I don't know, but demand (or potential of demand) making smaller ships more common for skins makes more sense than thinking FD are doing it out of "spite" or "ignorance" of whatever conclusions can be drawn otherwise. :)
 
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Red Wolf

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For those who want an example of the Corvette paint jobs in game. Go to watch the new fighter training video post by ED there's a red Corvette in the beginning.
 

Lightspeed

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Sans Daring said:
Yes, but again, as has been said, if the market was there, FD would be there, like any other seller. I suspect its because the smaller ships disperse a wider market of ownership which is different to use. So those who have Corvettes, and have that sort of money behind them, probably have a cobra or would probably spend that tiny amount of rebuying one if they like the skin. So you have all those people who use Cobras, all those who can afford Cobras, and those who might own a Cobra but not be using it, and all those who don't own one but could afford one if they like the paintjob.

Compare that to the Corvette. How many people fall into those categories?

Sounds like they will rectify it, but I would think, from an observer, that would be my reasoning from what I can see. Could be wrong, might be a technical reason, I don't know, but demand (or potential of demand) making smaller ships more common for skins makes more sense than thinking FD are doing it out of "spite" or "ignorance" of whatever conclusions can be drawn otherwise. :)
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There are TONS of paint jobs for the Anaconda, so that kind of blows your whole cost theory out the airlock. ;) I'll grant you the Anaconda isn't as expensive to purchase at the start, but everyone knows that a fully upgraded one can easily match the costs of an upgraded Corvette.

No... I just don't buy the whole low adoption rate argument. If you head out to any combat centric CG or even popular combat zones in open, there are plenty of people there using Corvettes and as I said before, check any Traffic Report at popular systems or better yet during CGs and the Corvette is one of the most numerous ship models participating in those events.

If the ship was as scarce as you guys are claiming, you just wouldn't see those kind of numbers.

Whatever FD's reasons are... I think Corvette owners have waited quite long enough for some attention to be paid to our favorite ship in the game. :)
 
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