player created ship Decals

[howmanymexicans]

I dunno about you guys but I am very proud of my group/minor faction and would Love to fly our colors on my ships.

We have a couple of company logos but this one is my current favorite

he is called Paul the space octopus, our corporate mascot.
It would make me eternally grateful to be able to display Paul, proudly emblazoned across my ships hull.
Is this something that Frontier would ever consider doing??
obviously allowing players to submit their own ideas would open the virtual floodgates for you guys, but I am sure you have become experts now in dealing with that kinda thing.

What does the community think?
I would be happy to pay for this in a micro transaction (and so give other players the opportunity to fly our colors also)
I would even go so far as to propose a larger 'buy in' to publish a logo so that several group members can contribute collectively towards a group decal.

comments please

 

[mikekim]

I think there should be some sort of decal designer in game.
i think that each decal should have an in-game credit cost once created, and then be submitted to the powers that be for approval prior to being made available to your account to apply to your ships.

failing that even if it was made available to buy from the store, so everyone could purchase it if required.

submission for approval would stop the inappropriate decals from appearing on ships.

 

[Lestenio]

submission for approval would stop the inappropriate decals from appearing on ships.

Sure, but introduces a whole world of pain with who own the copyright on an image. eg. someone hasn't just stolen it from a website

 

[Conch]

what happend to the rest of pauls legs?

 

[howmanymexicans]

space pirates!

he is -Mostly Armless-
/dodges rotten cabbage
...okay i deserved that

 

[SeaFireliv]

I have lots of designs I`d love to plaster on my ship, so I second this idea.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Sure, but it'd only you who can see it. Uploading it to all the users and synchronizing all the user made decals - not gonna happen. I'm not keen either on all the funny "digbutt" decals and questionable "funny pictures" people would come up with.

 

[Toshi_TNE]

Sure, but it'd only you who can see it. Uploading it to all the users and synchronizing all the user made decals - not gonna happen. I'm not keen either on all the funny "digbutt" decals and questionable "funny pictures" people would come up with.

Forza motorsports manages to sync decals to 24 players just fine. I think Elite has a max player instance of 32, so it wouldn't have to sync that much data. It could even stream them in, making them show up on ships after a while. If there's a will there's a way. Problem is, there is no will.

 

[Thetele]

EA, allowed players to do any I MEAN ANY kind of decals on their Battlefield games with out any restrictions, censoring or approving etc. And in that game your decal is placed on every weapon you carry. every vehicle you pilot and on your soldiers uniform+plus shown to every player you kill on big picture on their screen that they can't skip.

In elite you can't see other peoples decals during normal/regular game play in any situation? You are never close enough to other ship to be able to see or notice decals. There wouldn't be any need to have any kind of approval process or censoring.

 

[howmanymexicans]

Even if the method to design your decals was an external one that would be fine for me. Something similar to the 'I want my own minor faction' or the 'Galnet Submission' Thread would do for me, (that is, a standard form to fill in for your submission) the Devs could even release them in multipacks (say 10 factions to a pack) periodically so that they wouldn't completely consume the online store.

Or if it was ingame.. maybe something similar to the Ship Nameplate, an item that could be bought on the store that would allow access to a simple 'design a decal' screen in the outfitting.

Come on Devs.. gimme some feedback, I know you are considering doing something like this at SOME point in the future.

 

[Al33]

To be honest, it absolutely baffles me why this isn't in the game since day 1. This game could have benefited immensely from various ways to enable players to customize and personalize their ship/gaming experience. I'm talking about custom painjobs, custom decals, shipnames (at least this is coming) and maybe other stuff too. Instead they chose to give us a handful of different stock decals and paintjobs and made them pretty overpriced too.
These paintjobs don't make it personal or anywhere near unique, it's just the stuff everybody has. I see no reason to pay extra cash for a couple of completely uninspiring decals and stock paintjobs.

For me personally, this is just one of the aspects were Elite: Dangerous differs from a truly great game and demotes itself to a mediocre game.


I also wanted to add that a paintjobs/decals creator would work great (or be an ultimate necessity) for player groups/guilds/alliances....but since Frontier also decided to not want them, I guess it's pointless to dream about it.

 

[Starkiller_]

To be honest, it absolutely baffles me why this isn't in the game since day 1. This game could have benefited immensely from various ways to enable players to customize and personalize their ship/gaming experience. I'm talking about custom Painjobs, custom decals, Shipnames (at least this is coming) and maybe other stuff too. Instead they chose to give us a handful of different stock decals and paintjobs and made them pretty overpriced too.
These paintjobs don't make it personal or anywhere near unique, it's just the stuff everybody has. I see no reason to pay extra cash for a couple of completely uninspiring decals and stock paintjobs.

For me personally, this is just one of the aspects were Elite: DAngerous differs from a truly great game and demotes itself a mediocre game.


I also wanted to add that a paintjobs/decals creator would work great (or be an ultimate necessity) for player groups/guilds/alliances....but since Frontier also decided to not want them, I guess it's pointless to dream about it.

FD could be smart about it (funny right?) and allow the community to sell skins and decals and they take a small cut of the profits from the user that created it, I mean they like making money off of cosmetics right?

 

[SeaFireliv]

These paintjobs don't make it personal or anywhere near unique, it's just the stuff everybody has. I see no reason to pay extra cash for a couple of completely uninspiring decals and stock paintjobs.

For me personally, this is just one of the aspects were Elite: Dangerous differs from a truly great game and demotes itself to a mediocre game.

You touch it with a needle: because of sensibilities of pretty much cowardly companies they will never do any designs that are actually interesting. Ergo the bland, safe designs. It`s why we need user input and it don`t have to be always for Open, i`d use them happily in Solo even if I`d only see it when in the Hangar bay.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Special snowflakes be scared of pixels arranged in such a manner they vaguely resemble genitalia.

Ruddy snowflakes are ruining for the adults.

 

[Tarman]

Special snowflakes be scared of pixels arranged in such a manner they vaguely resemble genitalia.

Ruddy snowflakes are ruining for the adults.

This is not a question of tender sensibilities in the least; that's a beatstick, not a point. This is about legal CYA. FD need to not leave their own real junk in the wind for lawyers to snipe at on something like this, especially with a PEGI 7 rating.

 

[howmanymexicans]

I also wanted to add that a paintjobs/decals creator would work great (or be an ultimate necessity) for player groups/guilds/alliances....but since Frontier also decided to not want them, I guess it's pointless to dream about it.

I think working guild stuff into the game is a whole different conversation!!
I would like to think that the Devs have a plan on some kind of fancy guild/minor faction group system at some point in the games life, It would be great to loose all that external stuff in the end.. I probably spend as much time updating our website as I do playing the game!!

 

[Deleted member 110222]

This is not a question of tender sensibilities in the least; that's a beatstick, not a point. This is about legal CYA. FD need to not leave their own real junk in the wind for lawyers to snipe at on something like this, especially with a PEGI 7 rating.

Explain Forza. Seriously, go look at what people make. Legal stuff? Rubbish.

 

[SeaFireliv]

Explain Forza. Seriously, go look at what people make. Legal stuff? Rubbish.

My friend is insane on Forza and I can testify to this. Though his stuff is pretty tame. But there`s even more on PC games - just check out the Fallout, Skyrim and other such games. then look at Flight sims like IL2 that allows any kind of pinups on aircraft from tame to quite raunchy as was the case in reality.

 

[Thetele]

This is not a question of tender sensibilities in the least; that's a beatstick, not a point. This is about legal CYA. FD need to not leave their own real junk in the wind for lawyers to snipe at on something like this, especially with a PEGI 7 rating.

Regardless of age rating, Frontier isn't responsible for stuff other players do/create inside the game with tools they have available for them. Other vice the game would be 18+ because people can draw stuff to asteroids with weapons. Forza (forza has ESRB rating of E everybody which is lower than elite as elite has T teen rating) is great example of a game that allow total customization. Same goes with Minecraft and lego worlds.

 

[Qohen Leth]

Even (relatively) highly publicized mass event custom created logos don't have the privilege... except Distant Worlds, which made enough noise to be a real advert for Elite. So...