Ship integrity should be separate from paint

[damtired]

Dont know about anyone else but I for one am a bit bummed that in order to keep my ship integrity up I need to get and keep a fresh paint job.
To me, the wear and tear of a ship's paint job is kind of a yardstick of how long I've kept that ship alive. I take pride and like the look of the wear and so far when I've been killed I've been more bummed about the aesthetic change of a new ship more than I've been bummed about insurance costs for getting up and running again.
I remember reading when I first started a blurb stating that wear and tear was part of the game and you'd be able to tell that a ship has been busy out doing stuff by physically inspecting that ship and seeing how worn down it was. This rings true today but unfortunately, if the shipowner was even only slightly responsible he's forced to repaint his ship the first chance he gets so as to not be at a disadvantage if he gets into a fight.
Would much rather see paint separate from integrity.

 

[Jarek Storm]

Good news! It is.

 

[Armante]

Don't the new patch notes say something about making them two separate things?
I'd like to definitely let the paint wear while maintaining the combat readiness of my cobra

 

[Jarek Storm]

Don't the new patch notes say something about making them two separate things?
I'd like to definitely let the paint wear while maintaining the combat readiness of my cobra

They did and you can.

There's a "paint" clicky now!

 

[damtired]

oh.
ok.
well damn!!!!

 

[damtired]

well, the ui may still be buggy. I see theres a paint heading in the repair window so instead of repair all you painstakingly click all but 'paint' but........... the clicks werent registering.
Looks like thats where it will end up though, so good news indeed.

 

[damtired]

Bringing this up again as its still not easy to keep the paint job in rough shape. Very easy to missclick and get the paint repaired. I've done it a few times now.
Would be VERY nice to have the option to repair paintjob completely separate from 'repair all' function.

 

[Zhang]

Bringing this up again as its still not easy to keep the paint job in rough shape. Very easy to missclick and get the paint repaired. I've done it a few times now.
Would be VERY nice to have the option to repair paintjob completely separate from 'repair all' function.

Yes, this!!!

Make the paint repair completely separate from repair all.

I cared more for my beat up rat look Cobra and Viper from beta more than the shiny new rebuilds I have now in release. I tried to recreate the way they looked but got tired of all the damn clicking.