no starship customization

[monk10002]

theres still no way to visually customize a ship? come on! its been 7 yrs now. The ground vehicles can be visually customized, even the freighter too, but not the very thing you'll spend about 80% of your travels in? kind of disappointing, if you ask me. I do hope they add that soon.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Since the 80% of your travels should be less than 10% of your time in the game.....

Why should the game change? There are plenty of games out there. Do those games when you need a fix.

[Morgue Loot-Hoarder]

Publicado originalmente por monk10002:

theres still no way to visually customize a ship? come on! its been 7 yrs now. The ground vehicles can be visually customized, even the freighter too, but not the very thing you'll spend about 80% of your travels in? kind of disappointing, if you ask me. I do hope they add that soon.

The starships in NMS are specified in classes, so I'd understand when aspects of starship customization are limited in that point of view (like custom parts for starships). Though I'm mingling with the idea that one should at least be given the option to re-color their ships.

[gianlum]

Publicado originalmente por Mr. Bufferlow:

Since the 80% of your travels should be less than 10% of your time in the game.....

Why should the game change? There are plenty of games out there. Do those games when you need a fix.

Fine, but following this reasoning, why are we able to change the colors of the freighter ?

I get that ship customization is difficult and maybe not in the logic of the game or whatever, but I think that the last reason why we have not it is not because this suppose time percentage...

[Jouchebag]

It's a feature they're saving for a significant dip in player count. When sales start getting dry, they'll start adding things people expect in a game with space ships. Keep in mind, players returning to try out updates indirectly boosts sales by bringing attention and boosting player count.

There's an obvious, careful balance NMS is trying to achieve that has nothing to do with end user experience. It's a business scheme.

[AshTray900]

Publicado originalmente por Jouchebag:

It's a feature they're saving for a significant dip in player count. When sales start getting dry, they'll start adding things people expect in a game with space ships. Keep in mind, players returning to try out updates indirectly boosts sales by bringing attention and boosting player count.

There's an obvious, careful balance NMS is trying to achieve that has nothing to do with end user experience. It's a business scheme.

I would think this is a possibility myself, lets face it, it is a business, i think this is the exact reason why we can play any expedition of our choosing that has already been created and also why the quicksilver mechanisms are in place the way they are. simply to keep engagement up, now coloring ships id love to have, but i can accept that its just a company and nothing more only under one condition, that they fix bugs in a timely manner, for the most part this is true.

I am honestly surprised they havent curbed the save editor, i mean i know its not PVP but anybody that knows how to click install on a game here has the skills to set their quicksilver to 4 billion and unlock all the goodies they missed if they are new players. i like that its there, it helps us fix bugs, and skip things we dont like, i assume possible community backlash probably keeps them from changing saving mechanisms, that and they dont want reports of everything that bugs out that the save editor could easily fix

[Lindy Bomber]

They have not added ship customization and probably never will due to some combination of;

1. They can't.

2. They believe ship hunting and coordinate sharing is a core game mechanic.

3. They want as much if the game to be procedurally generated as possible. "Everything procedure"

After the NEXT update dropped in ~2018 data miners found incomplete code and assets for a ship repaint shop. This was latter removed then repurposed into the upgrade station. Either it didn't work right or they scrapped the idea.

Personally I would like a repaint and decal shop, but I don't believe it will happen.

[Saiytanic]

"gimme gimme gimme"

[Nexus]

i want the nms devs to make you unable to customise your base character with it being fully randomised what it looks like and make it so you're unable to build bases, only have procedural generated ones since they love their damn auto gen so much.

god forbid people dont wanna sit in a space station for 40 hours of their 41 hour playtime just trying to get a ship that doesnt look like garbage and is only tolerable to look at.

but hey, it aint a perfect fix, but theres always the nms ship builder. still, it would be nice if we could customise and tweek the things we own to our own liking.

[AshTray900]

They have so many AWFUL looking ships that go though the space stations don’t they, I mean hideous. Now you can just supercharge your starter ship with class and slot expansion so it’s not even worth looking for them most of the times until one just happens to drop around you that you like, that’s what I did this go around, just flew the pillar forever and finally found a sail ship I liked to transfer tech to

[c0hKaine]

Publicado originalmente por Saiytanic:

"gimme gimme gimme"

then you dont get money

[Lindy Bomber]

Publicado originalmente por c0hKaine:

Publicado originalmente por Saiytanic:

"gimme gimme gimme"

then you dont get money

Fun fact HGs has made giant piles of money from this game already already.

https://companycheck.co.uk/company/06663645/HELLO-GAMES-LTD/companies-house-data

[saposmio]

Publicado originalmente por Lindy Bomber:

They have not added ship customization and probably never will due to some combination of;

1. They can't.

2. They believe ship hunting and coordinate sharing is a core game mechanic.

3. They want as much if the game to be procedurally generated as possible. "Everything procedure"

After the NEXT update dropped in ~2018 data miners found incomplete code and assets for a ship repaint shop. This was latter removed then repurposed into the upgrade station. Either it didn't work right or they scrapped the idea.

Personally I would like a repaint and decal shop, but I don't believe it will happen.

Yes, there is always this excuse, even among the players community that "it would destroy ship hunting"

But this is ridiculous, just a lack of creativity.

It is perfectly possible to maintain ship hunting along with customization. Imagine the following: We are not free to customize ships as we want, but we can use parts of ships that we have already found.
Like if I found two ships of the same category, then I could disassemble them and keep the parts I want, and then combine those parts. Combining the wings of a ship I found, with the body of another, with the tail of another, etc. Being free to repaint it in a workshop, paying for it, and perhaps using ores or rare materials to create paints of a specific color.

[Lindy Bomber]

Publicado originalmente por sapo homi:

Publicado originalmente por Lindy Bomber:

They have not added ship customization and probably never will due to some combination of;

1. They can't.

2. They believe ship hunting and coordinate sharing is a core game mechanic.

3. They want as much if the game to be procedurally generated as possible. "Everything procedure"

After the NEXT update dropped in ~2018 data miners found incomplete code and assets for a ship repaint shop. This was latter removed then repurposed into the upgrade station. Either it didn't work right or they scrapped the idea.

Personally I would like a repaint and decal shop, but I don't believe it will happen.

Yes, there is always this excuse, even among the players community that "it would destroy ship hunting"

But this is ridiculous, just a lack of creativity.

It is perfectly possible to maintain ship hunting along with customization. Imagine the following: We are not free to customize ships as we want, but we can use parts of ships that we have already found.
Like if I found two ships of the same category, then I could disassemble them and keep the parts I want, and then combine those parts. Combining the wings of a ship I found, with the body of another, with the tail of another, etc. Being free to repaint it in a workshop, paying for it, and perhaps using ores or rare materials to create paints of a specific color.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I am just starting what appears to be HGs thinking.

Personally I think a repaint shop is a reasonable compromise. Finding a ship with a particular combination of parts isn't that hard. Finding that combination in a, particular color combination is significantly harder.

If you use some of the coordinate sharing sights you can almost any combination of parts and colors you could want.

[Rexxer]

That's the game format though. Starship looks, including COLOR, are linked to the star system. It's like saying, why can't I customize my baby? It is what it is from the seed it's given. It's a coded message of sorts. If you change it, the message changes, and you won't know where it came from. That's why. It is a manifestation of the star system it came out of.

But that actually makes looking for the exact ship you want somewhat interesting, if tedious and random. Your ideal ship is out there, somewhere, among the trillions and trillions of star systems. To find your ideal ship in fact, could even take a lifetime, real time.

[AshTray900]

It’s would be simple, just clicking 2 or 3 painting parts (main, accent, etc) at the ship scrapper terminal as another option.

No real effort required since you can basically give yourself any ship you want of any color that has spawned in the game using its codes on the save editor.

I think you can even repaint them already but only visible to you (with a mod)

Maybe one day