Would you agree that almost all ships need more colour.
(Accept for Vultures)

If so, than post here.

If you disagree, do not post at all.

~Cpt. Overkill~

This has already been mentioned at some length in the "Content" topic, specifically letting us customise their color schemes to a greater degree. Personally, while giving the ability to chose from a few different colors, all ships of the same kind feel disposable, simply because they aren't "our" ships per se- they're still stock ships with stock paint jobs.

However, I think it would be worth mentioning that the ships themselves aren't exactly the best eye-candy around. What I would do, at least at this point, is to add new ship types to the universe. We really don't have enough variance in the ship designs themselves, and adding more ships, preferably region-specific ones (like you can only buy the IBG near and in Itani space), would add greatly to the flavor of the game, and the twinge of the "unknown", and would encourage exploration in order to find the coolest ship out there.

One way that I would expidite the process of ship design, is to allow our community (particularly because VO attracts Mac users, which tend to more graphics-design oriented communities) to design new ships. I myself am a graphics designer, and I would gladly help create new content for the game in this way.

~Seldon

I disagree and I'm posting anyway. Why? This would (according to Waylon) require them to redo the textures of every ship and would also make the entire game slower (more than one dynamic texture pass = slow).

That's a powerful argument roguelazer. But if it would be possible without effecting the game performance to much maybe we could choose distinctive markings or logos. Maybe we could choose from a list provided or more preferably add our own!

Any additional dynamic layer over the texture causes difficulty.

Perhaps we should make it so that, while people with higher end machines can have it, people who don't want to see it can turn it off, hmmm?

By we, I assume you mean the devs...

Yes, but with this thread ( http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/10209?page=2 ), it manages to include us in the design process. So, I said "we".

Edit: why the hell would you *not* want further customizability in our ships? I'm all for insignias on our ships.

I want more colors! That would be awesome. It would make the universe more colorful! Imagene 20 ships in sedina B8 all of different colors!

When I said more colour, I meant how we could just add some more stripes to the ships.