Ship Color Launch Event this Friday

[Toonces]

Kicking off the upcoming new feature: custom ship colors

We'll be giving away free color change credits to all players. These will be issued to everyone on Friday around 6:00pm EST. Then everyone can try out the custom ship color features for this weekend promotion. But these promotional ship colors will disappear on Monday!

Color changes will remain available for tokens.

[Henry]

:O

Ok, several quick questions
Will the colors stay if you switch ships?
Will we lose the colors in general on Monday, or just the ability to change colors?
How many tokens?
What do you mean "We"? Is there a remaining member of Playtechtonics that you're hiding from us?

[Toonces]

:O

Ok, several quick questions
Will the colors stay if you switch ships?
Will we lose the colors in general on Monday, or just the ability to change colors?
How many tokens?
What do you mean "We"? Is there a remaining member of Playtechtonics that you're hiding from us?

Yes, the color stays when switching ships.

You lose the colors on monday.

Will be something like 25k tokens for 3 ship changes.

I have hired a team in India to consult with game design and programming. They only cost $5 a day!

[MutedJazz]

I have hired a team in India to consult with game design and programming. They only cost $5 a day!

The translator costs $150/hour.

[Cghunter]

lol sounds cool but thats alot of tokens haah. funny jazz.

[angelizer]

I wouldn't pay that much for spice...

This

How many parts of the ship will be color customizable ?

[CrazyChef]

$5 /day for Toonces new help, but cost 5X that for a mere cosmetic change to a ship...

[IronLung]

way too many tokens for something that wont make the game any better or fun to play.

[Henry]

Would you lose your color if you die? if not, then MAYBE, but u should let us buy them individually for a decent price, 8.33 per color change is rather steep. Also blitz was probably the server most looking forward to it, so perhaps season 8 will have blitz ships change to the colors of their team, or allow it to be cheaper/free on blitz? Are the color changes account wide or restricted within servers?

[omlow]

don't give him ideas dave34.

[Kwijibo]

kwijibo: omlow, your pink ship is fabulous
omlow: yes. yes it is. i picked pink as they didn't have fuchsia.
kwijibo: huh?

[FortyTwoAxes]

I`ve created a monster >:D

[GRAWRG.]

lmao @ daves comment.

i agree, a few people may try it for that price.. and then that'll be it.

im in favor of 1k tokens per ship change. most of us die often enough that anything more than that would get unreasonable.

but on a more positive note, good job with the color restrictions toonces. i like that you included a wide range of colors, but at the same time appear to have considered the fact of blending in with space/planets, and limited the hue and lighter/darker shades. this is good, since the color changes are only available for tokens.

[JuliusCaesar]

i keep d/cing after trying to use it D:

[GRAWRG.]

lol. after the newest patch (to fix the colors) i cant get online.. yay redownloading sge 20 times for a stupid feature i'll never use because of overpricing o.o

[BardockSGE]

Wow an update that actually sounds cool. Way to go toonces.

[JesusRocks765]

Im glad their here but, like many other people am Dissiapointed by the Price

Come on Toonces, 5 DDs, 2 IGS, 12k Warp Fuel, 12.5Mil Creds (On New Servers)

or a Color Change...

It should be WAYYY Cheaper!

[GRAWRG.]

after dying, i changed my mind about the color change. the price is reasonable, though i would prefer the cost be 8k tokens per color change. id rather not have to buy 3 at a time.

its a color CHANGE. thats where i got confused. you keep the color even if you die. and it then transfers to whatever ship you buy next. so the price is fine.

[Lookingglass]

after dying, i changed my mind about the color change. the price is reasonable, though i would prefer the cost be 8k tokens per color change. id rather not have to buy 3 at a time.

its a color CHANGE. thats where i got confused. you keep the color even if you die. and it then transfers to whatever ship you buy next. so the price is fine.

Reasonable??? HOW THE HELL IS THAT REASONABLE... let me ask you something, if you bought a real life car for lets say 10grand... WOULD YOU PAY 8GRAND TO GET A 1 COLOR PAINT JOB? No you wouldn't.

[Lookingglass]

Alright, I like the idea of custom ship colors BUT its way too damn expensive, I think it should cost maybe 1k tokens and maybe have an in game option that costs like 100mil or something.

[GRAWRG.]

i really dont understand how everyone thinks this is unreasonable. i dont want to pay for 3 at a time, but i could understand paying 8k for one change. 8k tokens to have your ship whatever color for as long as you choose? thats a decent price. didnt people pay like, 9k tokens for a hugging weed leaf? so.. yeah..

[Coyote]

I definitely thought it was cool to color my ship over the weekend. However, I don't see myself paying real world money for the privilege.

I likely would pay real world money to upload an insignia that would be painted on my ship and possibly mark my colonies as well. As a corporate CEO, I would also love to be able to upload a corporate symbol that would be visible on all corporate holdings and members.

[CrazyChef]

How about not having to pay for every little change in a "free" game lol

[Saber-Fury]

Think of any other MMO game, and tell me how many of those require you to pay real life money for a cosmetic change to your character or w/e it is in that game. It's a ship color change. I might as well get a marker and color in a circle where my ship is on my screen and get the same experience for free.

yea tbh, you could probably find someway to screw with the files and change the color of the ship, given enough time

How about not having to pay for every meaningless little change in a "free" game lol

1k tokes for a change seems much more reasonable, and much more likely to attract more people.

[Moleman]

Squeezing the last few $$$ out of the dying embers of a once great game...

[D-Tox1]

Squeezing the last few $$$ out of the dying embers of a once great game...

/Salute Moleman

You know what this game used to posess buddy.
Vega, Kwiji, Nightmare and countless other Master Tacticians achieved Server Domination through Blood and Sweat and Balls.
Those were the days when you could log onto one of 15 different Servers and see minimum 20+ people on them day and Night -
Rebangs were competitive - not bought by the obscene amount of Tokens flying around Starport at the moment - tbh in my personal opinion Worst thing Toonces did was hand out Tourneys to closing Perma Players - now it means certain guys have in excess of 100 tourneys and can buy a win anywhere they want - mix that with the cost to Token Nuke which is disgustingly cheap and hey presto - " Congratulations you just won yourself IG Homeworlds, Big Bang and any other Server you choose. - meaning everyone else suffers and the desire to play dissappears.
Just help get the guy to listen to some helpful and constructive advice would be a start ..
Balance is the key to a revival .. not silly new additions that tip the balance even further in wrong direction.
Time to start helping the Builders me thinks.

[invaderzim]

I`ve created a monster >:D

I <3 you