Right now it's possible to set the stipe color of the ship.
Allthough that's super-nice compared to the "You're Serco, so you're red" thing we used to have I'd like to see an additional palette to pick the base color aswell.

Ofcourse some parts would still have the color it needs to have (engines are black etc).

Another thing: How come I can't select black as my stripe color?
I want a black ship, darn it! :)
Black Omega: You with me on this?

I believe black was taken out because it's too hard to see against most backgrounds. Also, perhaps it's being reserved for the Order of Akan? :P

Wouldn't Black be a possibility if you were a Klox pilot? *hummm*

Black is not an option do to the advantage it would give some pilots. Such as, it would be harder to see that person while engaging someone else and the black ship person gets you by surprise.

okay, I totally agree as far as black goes, buuuuut....

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that's what the red 3D box is for, not to mention radar.....
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Dark blue and dark purple get the job done.
The radar is there, but when you're fighting a small pack of pilots, you can only target and see one pilot at a time!

Okay, forget black. It *would* be nice if we could choose the color of the ship as well as the stripes.

Hmmm... Fuscia and Chartreuse... Yummy!!!
*Breaks out Ray-Bans*

Allright, scratch the black part then.
You have very valid points.

I thought black was availble in Odia?

I vote for a 3 color ship pallet!
What can't you do with 3 colors?
No black though, black bad.

3 color?
Base, stripe and another stripe?

I don't care about ship color, but I am disappointed that my ship didn't come with a cup holder.

You have a cup?

Did anyone play Myth? I like that you could pick a supplied logo from a list and then customize it's colors. There could be some in-game defaults like UIT, Serco and Itani logo's as well as some from the larger factions.

I would like to see some way to import a small graphic logo like in the decent series and then stick em on the side o my ship. Maybe even have it fully skinnable. etc
I like the color black why not just use black but impliment mandatory DOT running lights.

Heres your cup holder. http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cables/6b35/
Now your ship can have one. :)

I like the idea of importing a graphic.

I just can't think of how it could be done without taking up dev time to review the logos. That or being an open invitation to make an obscene logo. Even non obscene user uploaded logos could detract from the games feel if they didn't fit with the universe. For instance a U.S. flag on a Valk wouldn't make much sense.

I think maybe an ingame thing where you could design your logo out of some primitive shapes and waylonics might work though. It's not the same but its something.

Yeah thats even cooler. Make like a set of charecters and colors like maybe one race gets some tribal like shapes one race gets some matrix style graphics anouther race gets some grid circuit like symbols and then you can overlap them or what not. Logos should be easily copied and changed that way maybe a guild or corperation can have the same symbol on all of their ships bases cargo containers even teritorial marker beacons.

Ow yes to even expand on the idea you could have faction millitary service symbols that apply to the ship/pilot and maybe even a ranking system. My thoughts go back to joining the federation in tradewars 2002 and getting access to the federation ship(cant remember the name was ripped off from startrek)

Hoax you have a good idea there. It doesn't sound complicated and would avoid the "offensive" issue. Each guild could trademark a specific color and GTS symbol for their ships.

Should the markings be optional?
What if I wanted to spy as my character? Could I buy a ship without the guild marker so I wouldn't stick out?
Could I use a similar shape and color as someone else to try to blend in?

Spider said:
"Wouldn't Black be a possibility if you were a Klox pilot? *hummm*"

So I'm the only one who can use black? Woot!

In my vision the markings would be optional for the most part. I would reserve some special dev created logo's that need earning. As in: you are now +900 with Serco, you may wear our national emblem with pride.

Or as mentioned a certain guild membership could be required for guild reserved logos.

If a logo goes with a guild I would have it not be optional for guild members; Although, I wouldn't make a guild choose a logo if they don't want one. If it is left blank then the members could create there own.

This of course would require some Dev intervention to lock a guilds logo and could be a future feature. Certainly being limmited to guilds would make it a more managable feature though.

For everday charactors I would have it work just like the ship coloring thingy. Have it remember the last logo you created but allow you to make a new one with any ship purchase.