More ship customization?

The space tyrant

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Do you guys think FDEV would ever release some sort of 'garage mode", where we could visually customize our ships in unique ways? (Besides the microtransactions)

Canopy tints
Different types of landing gear
Aerofoils
Hull textures (metal, carbon fiber etc.)
Custom headlights
That kind of stuff

For "balance" I'd be ok with modifications being expensive (Cr) and add weight to the ship.

More customization is always better.
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
If we rephrase the question as 'Would FDev voluntarily abandon their only source of ongoing revenue from players who have already purchased the last expansion, which was released 18 months ago' I think the answer becomes apparent.
 
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Dewson

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Once we can walk around our ships I could see paint or decoure options for the inside of ships. It will all be with micro transactions unless we get some added benefits for them.

For example: Buying a certain type of bed that lets our avatars regenerate health faster (game credits). But buying different sheets for that bed (micro transaction).
 

dogsolitude_uk

dogsolitude_uk
+1, would love to pimp my ship more :)

I'd definitely spend a few quid on an interior paint job. Long ago I grew weary of grimy, industrial and lived-in SF environments, and would love a clean, shiny trim on the inside of my ship.

[I'd also buy a ships cat as well (provided it got in the escape pod with you if you got blown up), but I posted about that ages ago and nobody else seemed to like the idea, so maybe it's just me.]
 

Fray

Fray
dogsolitude_uk said:
I'd also buy a ships cat as well (provided it got in the escape pod with you if you got blown up), but I posted about that ages ago and nobody else seemed to like the idea, so maybe it's just me.
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Isn't there an audio pack that actually adds the, er, audio, at least?

Mentions of cats and sci-fi escape/cryo pods just makes me think of--- other things, that aren't to do with cats or escape/cryo pods. I digress...

Obviously more customisation options for ships would be better, but as has been noted; thus far FDev have rather savagely exploited quite low effort and contextless cosmetic content ('here's a decal. what does it mean? who knows! here's a military flightsuit. what's so military about it? reasons!'), so I don't see Forza-esque detailing being added for free. The ship kits are, ostensibly, what you're roughly talking about and they're already here (and mostly kinda naff).

Because I'm a gullible idiot (and therefore a rather popular customer type for FDev... ) I probably would pay for some decent interior reskins, at least.
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
Fray said:
Isn't there an audio pack that actually adds the, er, audio, at least?

Mentions of cats and sci-fi escape/cryo pods just makes me think of--- other things, that aren't to do with cats or escape/cryo pods. I digress...

Obviously more customisation options for ships would be better, but as has been noted; thus far FDev have rather savagely exploited quite low effort and contextless cosmetic content ('here's a decal. what does it mean? who knows! here's a military flightsuit. what's so military about it? reasons!'), so I don't see Forza-esque detailing being added for free. The ship kits are, ostensibly, what you're roughly talking about and they're already here (and mostly kinda naff).

Because I'm a gullible idiot (and therefore a rather popular customer type for FDev... ) I probably would pay for some decent interior reskins, at least.
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Yes there is... Ships Cat from HCS voicepacks. It uh says "meow" in about 100 different ways or something.
 

Chrystoph

Chrystoph
Red Anders said:
If we rephrase the question as 'Would FDev voluntarily abandon their only source of ongoing revenue from players who have already purchased the last expansion, which was released 18 months ago' I think the answer becomes apparent.
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The answer to this is incredibly easy. You establish the "shop" as per the OP, but, to APPLY the changes, you have to purchase a token from the store.

I leave aside the implementation aspects, and am only addressing the monetary side of the issue.
 

Harry Hates Golf

Harry Hates Golf
Marcus Machiavelli said:
i would pay A LOT to change the orange colour on the inside of my anacondas cockpit!
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Relish your orange cockpit. Orange stands alone, a sign of independence! And no rhyming allowed. Even Tang (the drink used by astronauts) is 'orange flavor', and technically, you are an astronaut with Elite Dangerous, so therefore, you have to pretty much accept orange as your 'go to' color for aesthetics.

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If you're an astronaut, you must support Tang and Orange​

Orange is the best. Orange ship? Orange cockpit? Oh yeah, I'm there!

Wilhemina W. Witchiepoo says it best....

[video=youtube_share;jwZOcwkiKZM]https://youtu.be/jwZOcwkiKZM[/video]​
 

JimSan

JimSan
Wouldn't mind being able to get my Cobra Mk.3 to look more like the 3100 model (as seen in some concept art and also from the original game), would just be completely cosmetic but it'll give the ship a completely different look, like how the same Car type (say a Ford Escort) looks different over the years as they make newer models of the same vehicle, so say there's the original Combra Mk.3 3100 model, then there's the 3200 model (FFE version, maybe like earlier ED Cobra concept art) and then there's the 3300 model (what we got now), all would pilot the same but would be a cosmetic skin.
 
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