Sell paint buckets in the store

[Ertman]

With paint buckets I mean colors (and styles) that can be applied to all current and future ships in the same way as id and name plates.

At the moment you simply can't make a unified looking fleet of ships even if you had all the paints because the colors and styles vary too much between ships.

For example, if you compare the following:

https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/dolphin-vibrant-pack.html
https://www.frontierstore.net/game-...-game-extras/anaconda-vibrant-paint-pack.html

Dolphin looks good in any of those colors with its tinted glasses. There isn't a single Anaconda paint job that matches that because of the grey spots everywhere that turn the paint into a dual tone. There's only one Anaconda paint job that comes close to the Dolphin's single tone style and that's the orange one in this set:

https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/anaconda-horus-paint-pack.html

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I haven't bought a single paint set because they just lack consistency and even if you could make one ship look good you'll have 10 that look better in their stock color than in any of the store colors. Make one good looking set that turns all current and future ships into a certain color with the same style and I don't care if it costs like £18 per color or whatever as long as it looks the same on every ship.

Anyway, seeing something like this in the store menu is the only way you're going to sell me a paint:

Paint Buckets
+ Flat
+ Matte
---- Black
---- White
---- Silver
---- ...
+ Metallic
+ Alliance
+ Empire
+ Federal
+ Pirate
+ ...

 

[Ertman]

Thanks, I guess. The user experience would've been better if I didn't have to click so many buttons and there would've been one button that says £76 and Midnight Black Paint Bucket. Apparently I have to go click more buttons next year which is a shame.

That 76 reminds me of something though. Oh right, it was the only game ever that I had to actually return to the store for being total garbage but fortunately there was another company that wanted to take my money.

Now that my paint bucket suggestion is no longer relevant, could you fix Type-7 and replace the small hard point on the roof with a medium one and open the second small one on the bottom so that it can also go blow up rocks...