Why do we need to choose between garish colors?

[Narn]

I just want a metal color or something gray. Maybe a dull rust brown or metallic blue. There are not many paint color choices. For example the choices I have are neon green, yellow or dull green and yellow but no metallic colors or gray. I looked into the point choices for add on stuff and its all weird funky colors. I just want a gray or white ship. Why is that so hard?

[mazrados]

There is one gray color scheme you can get from missions.
And yes, most of this paint patters suck.

[zpc]

Because the color customization feature of the game is hidden from the player in favor of using it as incentive for online gameplay or rare mission rewards. Thus we don't have access to the 190+ available ship skins[wiki.egosoft.com] in the game.

Basically the worst decision ever made by Egosoft.

edit: added link to the list of ship paints in the engine (official wiki)

[Bozz 💀]

Try some mods.

[PeaceMaker]

True about the paint jobs. they are very strangely few in choice.

[Cellar_Cat]

Foundation Red honestly looks rusty to me. It's not as saturated as the other player colours.

If you're in vanilla you can also try getting high (27+) rep with RIP or FRF, who both have brown paint schemes.

[Narn]

Originally posted by mazrados:

There is one gray color scheme you can get from missions.
And yes, most of this paint patters suck.

Do you know what missions? Can I do them over and over to keep getting the colors?

Originally posted by Cellar_Cat:

Foundation Red honestly looks rusty to me. It's not as saturated as the other player colours.

If you're in vanilla you can also try getting high (27+) rep with RIP or FRF, who both have brown paint schemes.

Currently I use the foundation red or foundation yellow. The biggest problem is that Red makes my captured Xenon PEs and PSs look like Neocardina Shrimp. Also foundation red makes my Boron ships look like weird flesh beasts. Foundation yellow is almost right but it looks a little bit too much like bling to me, and I dont want to fly around in a bling cruiser. It makes me think my toon should be stepping out of the ship with gold teeth and a gold plated eyepiece.




Hands down metallic gray, metallic blue, and white should be default colors. Or even optional colors you can get. So far they dont even have them as options you can ever get. Why?

[¥aeko]

Originally posted by zpc:

Because the color customization feature of the game is hidden from the player in favor of using it as incentive for online gameplay

you mean, the online mode that doesnt work since... 3 billion years? (+/- 100 million)

@egosoft - how about you make them buyable ingame, hmm? After all, it is your game not having the features its supposed to have anymore.

[mazrados]

@Narn

I think it's "republic standard" if I remember correctly. For easier missions from Segaris or Antigone. Perhaps also from other guilds.

[KEKSohneNAMEN]

Originally posted by mazrados:

@Narn

I think it's "republic standard" if I remember correctly. For easier missions from Segaris or Antigone. Perhaps also from other guilds.

Republic standard is the Antigone paint. It's grayish-blue. The Segarians have a brighter blue (and white) paint that I forgot the name of.