I really want to purchase skins but.....

[1500]

Watch it, he'll negative rep you for disagreeing

I like the idea of wearing oculus then suddenly and unexplainable having an out of body experience and seeing yourself flying through space. That will be an experience.

You are trolling, and I gave you negative rep for it. If you don't want negative rep then don't blatantly troll. Not once did I ask for "magical hovering" or any such thing. All I asked for was clarification on if Camera Drones were going to be added as was discuses by the DEV before, but never confirmed.

Edit: Oh and you gave me Negative rep, because you trolled a thread.

 

[ste]

Whats the difference, between a 3rd person remote camera and 3rd person view, nothing. Thats what 3rd person is.

Maybe it would be acceptable to have a monitor in your cockpit that you could look at that showed you the outside of your ship but other than that. Get out and walk around it when poss.

 

[1500]

Well - I've had a good old search and can find nothing confirming it will happen, just a lot of discussion on what would work in the game fiction.

So with that in mind 1500 I would say not to buy skins until we can land on planets, or walk around stations and that might be quite a while away yet.
Quite disappointed myself really.

It is why I am bring it up again, it has been a while. With the sale and a lot of people looking at buying skins, some people like me, might be on the fence about buying skins. Knowing that FD do intend to implement the Camera Drones that were talked about would help a number of people.

 

[Avnas]

Free Solution: Just IMAGINE what your ship's skin is like... It's the same as buying one, only...FREE! My imagined Eagle has a leopard skin...

that's a bit like using custom skins in warthunder

to me my wings have ainsley harriot on them

 

[Flash Bomb]

You can view your ship in the outfittings hanger without getting out of your ship.
Also at the least they could replace the hollogram in station services with your actual ship and leave the holograms for the loading screens

 

[ste]

Has anyone tried using an Orca as a mirror, they look very reflective

 

[Daeron]

You can view your ship in the outfittings hanger without getting out of your ship.
Also at the least they could replace the hollogram in station services with your actual ship and leave the holograms for the loading screens

It strikes me that vanity views inside the station would not exactly break any rules, given that they already seems to be broken.

 

[Shoklar]

With out the ability to see my own ship flying about, and with out the ability to take images of my ship flying around I just don't see much of the point. Basically we would be buying skins for other people to see. Now I fully understand that 3rd person view is unwanted from a gameplay experience and I agree. Where are we at in having the ability to deploy a drone to take photos? The current methods of screen capture are a hindrance to people that want to make both video's and images.


Edit: Now bobbleheads I would jump all over.

They could add third person view for solo mode, but for multiplayer it would be hard to track everything. Not impossible, but a lot to do.

Shok.

 

[Vasea Azure]

Ship skins will have a point when we will be able to walk around our ships.

 

[ste]

Ship skins will have a point when we will be able to walk around our ships.

They have a point now, people can see what you look like and you can see what everyone else looks like. If everybody decided not to bother cos they couldnt see themselves we would just be looking at plain old ships everywhere.

See it as a favour, they do you a favour by making their ship look nice for you and for politeness do it back to them so they dont have to stare at your boring stock sidewinder.

Hes a solution, get a friend to buy the exact same skin, fly behind him and pretend he is you but you went third person. It would look just the same.

 

[Vasea Azure]

I play online all the time and I was not able to spot the custom skins at other players ships at all - it's too fast passing other players to even noticed it. But that's just me.

 

[Scourge]

I want my skins, I want to ship spin in space so I can take lots of pictures with my shiny space-babies in all their immersion shattering glory. In awe inspiring locations, obviously.

 

[CATPAIN KIRK]

Real time third person would be gamebreaking. There's that absurdely biased thread about a definite discussion on the subject, basically answering any concern risen with with a bunny wearing a pancake on his head.

I'm all for third person views, but they need to be implemented as replays only.

 

[1500]

You can view your ship in the outfittings hanger without getting out of your ship.
Also at the least they could replace the hollogram in station services with your actual ship and leave the holograms for the loading screens

I am not sure why we don't just have a free camera look when in the outfitting hangar, or at least give us the ability to pan the camera around. It would be a nice addition.

 

[ste]

I play online all the time and I was not able to spot the custom skins at other players ships at all - it's too fast passing other players to even noticed it. But that's just me.

To be honest Ive never really noticed them either, Space is pretty dark.

 

[Scourge]

To be honest Ive never really noticed them either, Space is pretty dark.

I buzz everyone I see with a skin, just my way of saying, "yay skinbuddy!"

 

[Jer the Stampede]

..I'm all for third person views, but they need to be implemented as replays only.

Now that would be a pretty good idea.



I would like drones too not just for camera work but also for recovering items, taking samples from asteroids before committing to mining operations etc, this would hardly be game-breaking either if anything adding a whole new dimension to gameplay, yes we play as the our characters avatar, but nothing to stop him putting on a futuristic Oculus and manually controlling a drone in much the same way as you can fly a DJI Phantom quadcopter with FPV today, you forfeit your ship controls in favour of the drones controls for the duration, have limitations such as the further a drone goes from it's mothership the more delay to the controls (much like the mars rover curiosity),, anywa, I'm waffling now

 

[Kramster]

Real time third person would be gamebreaking. There's that absurdely biased thread about a definite discussion on the subject, basically answering any concern risen with with a bunny wearing a pancake on his head.

I'm all for third person views, but they need to be implemented as replays only.

I would settle for a 'freelook' camera when in a station or outfitter

 

[ste]

I would settle for a 'freelook' camera when in a station or outfitter

I dont think they will add a freelook camera when the plan is to be able to walk around. It will be designing a feature that will later be removed. Placeholder maybe until then.