I'd be more likely to buy paintjobs if...

[OfftheRails]

...if the packs included a single paintjob, but for each ship in the game - rather than half a dozen paints for a single ship. I'm put off making the purchase because I know I won't be seeing it for months at a time.

...if there was a chance to see them in-game before buying. Maybe there could be a promo event from time to time where the packs are briefly unlocked for everybody?

...if they were cheaper. It's a lot easier to drop £2 than £10, especially for a completely useless, faintly geeky, infinitely-replicable virtual item.

...if it's for charity. Have FD spoken to Comic Relief about a Red Nose Day paintjob? If not guys, you should. Sod it, here's the link: http://www.comicrelief.com/support-us/partners#section-licensing

Any more folks?

 

[Calaban]

Why give a textwall explanation if a comedy movie clip can sum it up even better?

[video=youtube;fgRFQJCHcPw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgRFQJCHcPw[/video]

DATs why you specifically may NOT buy a paint set of a particular group that you (and everyone else) would desire.

 

[Aussiedroid]

I have bought quite a few to support the devs, but I agree. Feel ripped off anytime I buy one .. very high prices for what they are.

Price puts me off big time .. set a reasonable price and I would be visiting the store more often.

 

[Gully Foyle]

You saw the sale right for Black Friday I think they are available now.
Selling one pack with one design for all the ships is a great idea however I think it would be more expensive seeing how each ship design is different and there's like 28 now right?
It would be awesome if they did a red nose if I don't care if it doesn't fit the lore or the immersion suffers. Its a great idea.
I never feel guilty or suckered buying a paint job I love the looks I love to take pictures of it and I don't mind helping out our little developer.
o7

 

[Queebatron]

Speaking of paint jobs, do we people that pre-ordered Horizons already also get this black paint job I've heard mentioned as a bonus for people who are ordering Horizons just now?

 

[Privata]

I have bought quite a few to support the devs, but I agree. Feel ripped off anytime I buy one .. very high prices for what they are.

Price puts me off big time .. set a reasonable price and I would be visiting the store more often.

At leasts its not a 75Euro internet spaceship for a game that may or may not ever happen

 

[Stocker]

If frontier can add customised character settings why not the same with paint jobs.

 

[Aussiedroid]

At leasts its not a 75Euro internet spaceship for a game that may or may not ever happen

Hahaha! Indeed .. but thats how you earn 100mil on the hype train

 

[tawittle]

In basically EVERY game I've ever played with skins (DotA 2, LoL, CS:GO etc.) the skins always start off looking bad and are atrocious rip-offs. The players just buy them to show their support. Then usually the developers make more money, get an actual skin team, start making good skins, and then people actually WANT to buy the skins, and then once you have a lot of players showing off their good looking skins new players will see the skins and want to buy them too, even though they don't necessarily want to support the game anymore than they already have.

SO BASICALLY what I'm saying is that the quality/value of skins is very likely to increase exponentially.

There probably isn't much work put into skins by FD and there probably shouldn't be with horizons launch imminent. Just the fact that we have recolors (vibrant, tactical, military) skins for almost every ship is a pretty big improvement IMO. You might think it's lame all we get for most ships are 3 paint packs, but I think that's pretty good actually because when I started playing, most ships didn't have ANY skins. The vibrant paint pack was only available for a couple ships, and tactical and military hadn't come out yet.

We need FAS skins though. FD why you release gold ferdy skin before tactical FAS paint pack? Also would want to see some whacky skins too, like an anaconda skin that's stock anaconda paint with a giant pink anaconda curled around it.

 

[Tyrit Shadowstalker]

Speaking of paint jobs, do we people that pre-ordered Horizons already also get this black paint job I've heard mentioned as a bonus for people who are ordering Horizons just now?

It says right in the description that players that have already pre-ordered get in on the midnight black paint pack.


I'm kinda curious as to what the difference between the midnight paint and the tactical graphite will be though.


Edit: Hmmmm.. if this is an example of what they're gonna look like....




Me likey.

 

[OfftheRails]

I have bought quite a few to support the devs, but I agree.

I think there's a lot of us who wouldn't mind chipping in to the hamster holiday fund from time to time, if only it felt frivolous instead of ostentatious.

You saw the sale right for Black Friday I think they are available now.

Saw it, checked it out, decided not to buy anything. Thought about why. Figured I'd share, maybe start a conversation.

Selling one pack with one design for all the ships is a great idea however I think it would be more expensive seeing how each ship design is different and there's like 28 now right?

Overlaying a national flag or a Pharaoh design is never going to be as big a job as creating the texture in the first place.

Speaking of paint jobs, do we people that pre-ordered Horizons already also get this black paint job I've heard mentioned as a bonus for people who are ordering Horizons just now?

It says so in the Newsletter.

At leasts its not a 75Euro internet spaceship for a game that may or may not ever happen

That's what put me off Star Citizen. There was a time when I was going to buy in, but I couldn't figure out what any of the options actually meant. How the hell was I supposed to know which ship to buy for a game I'd only just heard about?

 

[Gully Foyle]

Psssst Frontier Art Department:

If they ever decide to put the actual snake scale patterns for the snake named ships I am in like Flynn.
And psychedelic variants of same.

 

[Valethar]

I wouldn't mind seeing more packs that cover a variety of ships. The Pirate skins are a good example of a wasted opportunity for FD. Bundle those together at a good price, I imagine they'd sell quite a few.

 

[h347h]

It says right in the description that players that have already pre-ordered get in on the midnight black paint pack.


I'm kinda curious as to what the difference between the midnight paint and the tactical graphite will be though.


Edit: Hmmmm.. if this is an example of what they're gonna look like....

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Me likey.

It looks like a matt black paint. I really hope that is it.

 

[Clicker]

FD...make and sell a MOD KIT so players can create their own skins.

Imagine the variety then!

Of course each mod would need to be "moderated" to ensure it's PC...but hey they factor that in the price of the kit, and hey presto everyone is happy.

Clicker

 

[OamodSias]

I've bought a paint pack for every single ship I've owned. It's a once off purchase, I get six of them (or 5 if you fly a clipper - the white paint is useless as.. YOUR SHIP IS ALREADY WHITE BY DEFAULT) and they're forever.

I do like the idea of viewing them in-game first though. Perhaps make them available to at least preview, but in order to use them you'd need to buy them.

 

[Jason S]

I do have the money for paint jobs but out of principle I do not buy them as the price seems to reflect the cost of a recently released indie game or a AAA game a few years old.

The price for a paint job should not be more than a packet of crisps.

I understand that some people want to donate, but I already have given over two hundred pounds for the game and so buying paint jobs at these prices seems unreasonable.

 

[Angelo]

Well FD's pricing has been unattractive since the start. Maybe because the pricing is based off £, but I never had the urge to buy one of the beta packs or extras. I mean I'd buy a skin here and there for 1€, but I don't need a pack from which I'll likely only use 1 or 2 skins.

 

[CMDR Byr Goefin]

I would be a lot more likely if I could see my dang ship while flying it!

 

[hunvagy]

I would be a lot more likely if I could see my dang ship while flying it!

That is what the debug camera is for.

As for the OP, I did spoil my Asp with many different packs that I switch when I feel like it. Right now I'm really thinking about adding the Synth pack to my collection