Random "base" paintjobs on newly bought ships

[Shadowdancer]

To increase variety a bit, newly purchased ships could have a chance to come with a base paint randomly picked from the "Vibrant" packs. That may also encourage store purchases in some cases Maybe lock the random choice to the account to prevent Free Vibrant Pack Syndrome¹ (so e.g., a Viper Mk3 would always be either base paint or blue, while any Beluga bought by that player would have the choice of base paint or purple).

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¹ On that note, I would not be opposed to have the Vibrant packs just freely available, or have them as a single one-time purchase covering all Vibrant packs ever as they become available.

 

[Ranek Eisenkralle]

Quite frankly I don't think that is a good idea. This way you would force players to spend additional money on the game beyond the initial purchase - just to switch their ship from a color they got allotted to a color they actually like better.
with how things are at the moment you have a neutral base paint which you can then OPTIONALLY change to something you may like better.

 

[Shadowdancer]

I don't think most people would even care about the looks of their own ship, and I assume that those who do end up buying some of the fancier "patterned" paints anyway. It's more for introducing an extra bit of variety for others.

 

[Martian Successor]

I agree with Ranek. Although it'd be nice to have a fancier colour available for free it can also be quite discouraging to be at the mercy of RNG for yet another thing in this game. There's too much RNG as it is, and I want less things to be random not more. Plus some of the base colours for ships are actually very good. For example the Fer de Lance's free base colour is in my opinion one of the best paintjobs in the game, I wish they would sell it for the FAS and other ships

If I bought a FDL and it randomly assigned me a purple paintjob, well I'm not fond of purple so I'd be tempted to sell it and buy it again just to reroll the random colour it comes with. I could be doing this for ages just trying to get the colour I like all the while losing credits because the sale value for ships is lower than the buy value. It'll turn into a nightmare just like rerolling for engineer upgrades. I'd say leave it as is or let us manually choose the skin we like when purchasing a ship.