If FD could not half-'bum' ship decals that'd be great.

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1.25€ for 3 decals that aren't orientated properly on SRV models, incompatible with a fair number of ship-paints and designs that suffer from visual degradation as soon as you gain some distance.

No support for customization (should've been a base-game feature btw but no problem). Does however place the pressure on you to get it right.

Comes to show, you can't do either.
 

Valethar

Valethar
Don't forget lack of proper orientation when going from one side of the ship to the other.

The lack of proper coloring for various paints has been a longstanding annoyance for a lot of people. You'd almost think the artist was a former Soviet bloc cold war designer, given the number of uninspired grays used. :/

They could definitely do better.
 

DeathStroke

Banned
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Their art department has been going down hill for a while now. I've made several suggestions cosmetics wise, all ignored. I'm at the point where, unless it's a flag paint, I'm not buying it. You're loosing money here Frontier, time to wake up.
 

Henri

Henri
yea....also really annoyed by the shipnames, I mean if it was free of charge it would be okay but it's not.
 

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EValve said:
1.25€ for 3 decals that aren't orientated properly on SRV models, incompatible with a fair number of ship-paints and designs that suffer from visual degradation as soon as you gain some distance.

No support for customization (should've been a base-game feature btw but no problem). Does however place the pressure on you to get it right.

Comes to show, you can't do either.
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Fixed the title for you :D

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Daniel Cloudsifter

Daniel Cloudsifter
Stigbob said:
Have a look at screenshots from other players before buying a cosmetic thing.
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You have a valid point. Assuming players have posted relevant shots before you want to purchase an item. Also, it may only be "off" on certain ships, and I don't know of any players that are buying cosmetic items that can go on all ships, then putting them on all ships, and posting images of them for review.

However, that aside, the criticisms are valid AND important to Frontier if the cosmetic items are not making customers happy. These are purely optional items that are bringing in extra money to Frontier. If they get sloppy and the quality of these items degrade, sales will drop and that means less money for them.

So far I've been happy with all my purchases. Yes, the Anaconda Raider kit parts (and Python raider kit) sometimes overlap the decals, ship IDs, and ship names at points. I would hope that they will make minor adjustments to fix this in the future. If not, *I* can live with it. It's not that bad.:cool:
 

Darth Ender

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Orientation of decals is something I think is partly a complaint because people think that symmetry should trump correctness. Which i dont agree with.

If the symbol is asymmetrical itself and is basically a trademark for a group/company/etc, it has a single orientation. If this symbol is not symmetric, then that means you're going to notice it's orientation when it's posted on two opposite sides of an object. a symbol (--> will have the > portion facing one way on one side and the other way on the other side because that's the the mark. <--) is not the same mark. It can mean something completely different, like how a cross upside down means something different from one upside right.

Making such marks symmetrical looking so that the same edge of a decal faces the front of the ship on all sides that visibly changes the orientation of the mark is wrong.
 
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Tarman

Tarman
Stigbob said:
Buying something that exists only to look pretty whilst refusing to check if it actually is pretty seems a little dim to me.
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Generally cosmetic items available in other venues have already been vetted for such minor issues as: Fitting Properly, Being The Colour Stated, and Which Way Is Up; and can be chosen on primarily aesthetic criteria. For Elite, this is less a case of "do I like the Ignition paint job, flames aren't really my thing" and more like "holy cow I could clean up the pixellation on this skin myself in Paint".

I'm not saying don't personally vett Elite items first, but it's sad in the first place on FD's part that this is an absolute requirement for anything coming out of the store.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
The thing that irritates me most if the lack of integration with the ship kits.

If there were just a whole heap of parts available and you could stick them to any ship, ensuring they all worked with decals and name-plates would be a significant task.

That's not the case though.
There's one or, possibly, two kits for each ship and each kit contains 3 or 4 parts which can fit in a given place.
Surely it couldn't be that hard to bung the models into 3DS Max, apply the kits and see if any of the parts obscure an area where a decal is located?

So, why does stuff like this happen and, possibly more importantly, why is it STILL happening several updates after the ship-kits/decals/name-plates were introduced?

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