Paint, paintjobs, Livery and Decals discussion thread.

[Commander William Diffin]

I have a skull on my hauler, it strikes fear in to my would be attackers.

lol nice to see Frontier really came through for someone at least

 

[SmallBlueSphere]

I was wondering this too. It would be great if the faction details were available as rewards for ranking missions. Please say we're going to get this!

 

[daan2002]

i hope so i love to sport the Empire logo on my ship

 

[Cortano]

Newcomers Paint, paintjobs, Livery and Decals discussion thread.

Found the status of my paintjob decreasing constantly. How come? Does it affect my hull integrity or the function of my subsystems in any way?

 

[krysohmyz]

Paintjob is just a paintjob. It doesn't affect ship's performance.
However, police tend to let you be when you're flying a shiny ship, while if you're in scratched rusty junk, you'll get scanned very often. Just like with real cops and old cars.

 

[CakeEngine]

Found the status of my paintjob decreasing constantly. How come? Does it affect my hull integrity or the function of my subsystems in any way?

i guess the paintjob decreases due colliding with space dust and/or space stations. First one with lesser, latter with greater effect.
joking aside, as far as i can see, it just means some scratches in your varnish and does not affect any system in any way.

 

[technophebe]

I have the opposite issue, in that I want to see what my paintwork looks like when it's worn but it keeps repairing itself! (No I'm not using the repair all button ^^)

 

[krysohmyz]

Stupid question, probably, but You do know it's away from a Wear and Tear and has it's own line in repair screen within modules, now, right? Maybe you automatically set everything there to 100%, including the painjob?

 

[technophebe]

Thanks Kryz but yeah I know that, any time I have damage I laboriously repair everything line by line.

 

[krysohmyz]

Aha. Well, maybe you could try switching your shields off. I guess the paintjob will be first to go.

 

[Darth-Simba]

Decals

Are there anymore decals other than the skulls? If so, how do we get them?

 

[Hexen]

More OSOD?! No thank you!

 

[Darth-Simba]

OSOD? whats that?

 

[kastia]

Orange Ship Of Death...

 

[CMDR Carbo]

OSOD? whats that?

It was a stuck on loading screen bug that could affect you when you had decals applied. I think it was fixed in late gamma.

 

[MSeven]

I was thinking about opening a thread about this, just to find out if t's just me that's missing Decals (not just the "special" ones promised on kickstarter, but anything besides the skull).

well, it seems they are just not there (yet).

 

[Hexen]

Orange Ship of Death

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=71873
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=72882

Notorious bug from not long time ago that was partially related to scull decal.

 

[StephenB]

There is (was?) a bug where applying Decals would bork your save or freeze your game. I haven't had any issues myself though.

To answer your question: I don't think so. I have yet to see anything other than the skulls.

 

[Viscount Hood]

I can't find a 3rd person view mode, but is there a way I can see my ship's paint work slowly degrade?

 

[Firebeard]

Paintjob is just a paintjob. It doesn't affect ship's performance.
However, police tend to let you be when you're flying a shiny ship, while if you're in scratched rusty junk, you'll get scanned very often. Just like with real cops and old cars.

Is this true or urban myth? If its true I love it if not I WANT IT!!