Vehicle Customisation

eiledon

I know this is something that has been asked for quite a few times but I have an idea how it could be done and monetized.

Something that has been asked for a lot by the playerbase is being able to change the color of vehicles. This is something that is available in other PW games for mounts/vehicles.

A way it may be accomplished in Champions Online that would give the players what they want but still make money for the company is to add to each vehicle "paint/color slots" (along the same lines as mod and weapon slots) dependent on how many color zones each vehicle has. These slots could be "colored" using paint pots available from the zen store (perhaps a pack of 4 random color paints for 100z or 2 specific color for 100z - specific colors limited to primary colors/tones red, green, blue, white, black etc). I appreciate this would mean some rework of the existing vehicles but given what has been done in other PW games for existing vehicles/mounts it doesnt seem out of the question.

Any thoughts?

rebelscum58

Personally I think they should swipe the idea behind ship customisation in STO. Have each vehicle be made up of a number of parts, and let you mix and match parts if you own more than one variant of the basic design.

Even just letting us change the colours on them would be amazing, though.

m1ndfr1k

im sorry, but vehicles are just a $%^&

battybattybats

Or allow an insignia!

C'mon nothing says 'this vehicle belongs to so-and-so' like a great big emblem on it thats also on the hero!

Then even if they want to keep the colours static to differentiate say, between the blue exocet and the red one, we could still have a clear link visually to our hero!

While i'm at that, can i have a brain-in-a-sphere emblem please?

thearkady

Great idea, but I'm sure it'll run afoul of the usual "the CO codebase is such unstable **** we're too worried changing something old might break it" argument.

I mean, there's costume pieces with issues that haven't been fixed since launch, you really think they're going to bother changing skins on vehicles?

Doing an entirely new tintable grav bike/grav tank/exocet/whatever that's better than any of the old ones and hiding it in a lockbox, however, might be something you can convince Cryptic/PWE of.

crypticbuxom

We used to be able to change the vehicle colors from the tailor when they were first on the PTS. But they removed that.

omegadk

This would be awesome. I understand if they can't do it, but I don't buy them due to the limitations.

agentnx5

omegadk wrote: »

This would be awesome. I understand if they can't do it, but I don't buy them due to the limitations.

The engine is capable of doing this. Cryptic just needs to make it accessible; to implement it.

Proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaxRu8pTFIE



While I'm more interested in the characters themselves and places to actually go and do things, I am for this suggestion being implemented.

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