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Ship skin unlocks as projects, a la MACO/Omega/KHG armors

arkridgearkridge Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited August 2013 in Reputation System
Alright, so we've got a lot of ship skins these days, given the number of sets available to captains. While not all of them come from the rep system, enough do that I think it would be neat if, in the fashion of unlocking the Klingon Honor Guard costume options after requisitioning all parts of the set, after requisitioning all of, say, the Nukara space set, a project became available that'd permit you to use the nukara ship skin at the ship tailor.

This way, you could use a skin that you like, even if the set itself is subpar for your gameplay goals. In addition, that'd allow it to show up on the character selection screen as it appears in game.
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  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I'd love to use the KHG shield visual on my cruiser and carrier, but in the eng/tank role I can't actually use the shield. And I don't want to use the Adapted KHG shield, either, as I've already got an Elite Fleet shield and I want to use the Leech I paid $10 for.

    So +1 to unlocking ship materials via rep.
  • killdozer9211killdozer9211 Member Posts: 925 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    +1

    Unlockable ship set materials like the reputation costume projects would be amazing. I could build for stats and still enjoy how my ship looks. Please implement this.

    I dropped 50 bucks on the andorian three pack so I could get all the materials and get something that actually looked like the real kumari. Instead, all I have are three of the ugliest shades of purple. What about andorians is purple? Blue at least would've made sense. But purple? I mean, really? Of the dozen or so ships shown in the show, how did the one actual hull material they were all made of get left out? Did anyone have to paint the D'kyr purple to bring it into the future with the blessing of the IP's godfather? No? Then why did you do it to my Kumari?

    All I want is for my Andorian escort to be gray, to have a conventional looking hull material, to look like it's actually a ship and not a dilithium deposit with cannons on the side flying through space. The dominion shield has these ugly lavender patches all over it, so that doesn't work, and then I found the honor guard set on the wiki and got excited so I worked out a stealth/projectile build and sunk a whole bunch of resources into the adapted MACO shield only to find it it's still that awful MACO hexagonal chrome garbage instead of the ideal looking klingon texture, which is just lazy. You can copy paste the stats but not the visuals? Come on, you're killing me.

    Please, give me something that makes a dozen back to back public queues of infected with pugs that don't understand the 10% rule and who rarely communicate, and when they do it's in a different language, worth doing, like the ability to make my beautiful ship not the tackiest thing in the sky.
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