Power Play-aligned NPCs are now painted with PP colors to identify them as such. Could we get some paint jobs applied to other NPCs, too.

CMDR Kraag

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Pretty much the title. Pirate NPCs, for example; how about giving them pirate paint jobs from the game store rather than stock paint? Maybe even the pirate (i.e. Raider) ship kits, too. System Security NPCs; how about a little love there, as well? NPC miners in RES zones; why not add the Extraction ship kits?

Adds a little variety to the game, showcases FDev's cosmetics, may even lead to a sale when a Commander sees one and thinks, "That looks cool! Maybe I'll pick that up for MY ship."
 

CMDR Daiyus

CMDR Daiyus
Alezander Corben said:
or even get those paint jobs for arx.
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I think part of the reason so many basic paint options were removed from the store was because they wanted to use them exclusively for PP ships, and yes, I'm still bitter about that. There's some left, but I'd expect, if analysed, you'd find the colour and ship combinations don't appear anywhere in the PP game.
 

Koma Pahu

Koma Pahu
I was surprised to see that the PP ships aren’t painted in any of the PP paints available for ARX.

Simple colours does make sense, so they’re easier to identify, but it does seem odd that FDev didn’t realise that people would want to look like they’re a part of the faction’s fleet.
 

CMDR Daiyus

CMDR Daiyus
Koma Pahu said:
I was surprised to see that the PP ships aren’t painted in any of the PP paints available for ARX.

Simple colours does make sense, so they’re easier to identify, but it does seem odd that FDev didn’t realise that people would want to look like they’re a part of the faction’s fleet.
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It's probably to prevent players painting themselves the colour of the enemy in an attempt at "stealth".
 

CMDR Daiyus

CMDR Daiyus
Koma Pahu said:
It could have been put in as a reward for reaching a certain rank to ensure you’re pledged.

Not that I’m actually against people camouflaging their ships tbf.
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Not a terrible idea. I think when the paints were removed it was theorised they'd be brought back as rewards. I'm pledged to Yuri Grom, who uses orange for his PP ships. I wouldn't be adverse to unlocking the orange paintjob for my ships as I rank up, but I'd still prefer to be able to buy and use my preferred olive green fleet colour. I'm not actually sure if the olive green is used by any of the 12 powers come to think of it.
 

Koma Pahu

Koma Pahu
CMDR Daiyus said:
Not a terrible idea. I think when the paints were removed it was theorised they'd be brought back as rewards. I'm pledged to Yuri Grom, who uses orange for his PP ships. I wouldn't be adverse to unlocking the orange paintjob for my ships as I rank up, but I'd still prefer to be able to buy and use my preferred olive green fleet colour. I'm not actually sure if the olive green is used by any of the 12 powers come to think of it.
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I would have preferred they give the NPCs new paints and leave the old ones for us.

Grumble… grumble… grumble…
 

Sylow

Sylow
Rebel Yell said:
Why do you need fake pirates when you have real ones (= us) ?
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Because at least according to my experience, those "fake" pirates have cargo holds. Which was not true for any of the "real" pirates i ever met, as long as i played in open. :D

aRJay said:
Why would a pirate NPC want to make themselves even easier to spot by having a give away paint job?
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You ever checked their ship names? There is not enough space on any ship to paint enough skulls on it to come even close... so really, it does not matter. At the same time, i would really like it, if NPCs generally would sometimes use other paint jobs again. I remember some time, when they did. But then after some patch, they stopped doing so, and FD never figured out how to fix that...
 
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