Are you able to give some more details on the ships skins available in the pledge store? Will the skins be able to be applied to all ship classes or just the "Original 5"? I have all of them as another way to support and would love to have some more details.asked by HeadlessChook
TL;DRWhether skins work on all ships or only the original ones is undecided and depends on whether the still-in-R&D painting tech proves flexible enough; it could go either way.
Yep, so ship skins are still slightly up in the air. Longer-term we have a process and we discussed some tech that we're gonna do to allow you to sort of paint and customize your ships, and obviously that is also the same sort of tech that we'll be using for the ship skins. So if we can get that tech to be flexible and more generic, then it would be actually quite... it would be easier to have the skins be on multiple ships. If it's not and we have to do a custom skin for each individual ship, then in those cases the skin would only really be applicable to the original ones that we said it would be. But we don't know yet, so we're still doing R&D. I mean our goal is to make it as flexible as possible, but that's sort of in our graphics R&D pipeline so we haven't done it yet. So it could kinda go either way right now.