The patch was downloaded last night and although things look more detailed there is a darker overshadowing that makes it hard to make out certain details. I'll have to tweak the brightness and contrast to see things better.
After my usual daily checks and balances I had a look at the NEX store for the new ship skins.
The ones that had interested me the most were the Merlin due to my flying of them on occasion and the Hyperion simply because I think it was the better of the BS's redone.
They are cheap enough on the Aurum front.
So in the store I bought 1 Hyperion change and a 10 run Merlin change. Yes I said "change".
I was disappointed in the fact that these were sold as BPC's rather then something that would be applied to the current ship.
Let me explain.
My Hyperion has barely been used but as I am a hoarder I keep things like 250 Million isk Battleships, especially ones that are rigged. The rigs on it were worth about 75 Million (T1), here is my problem, to get the new skin on the old hyperion I would have to repackage it, losing the rigs. I was not happy.
I know some people will snicker at the loss of 75 Million or "just" 3 rigs, but that's not me.
After about 10 minutes of thinking about it I repackaged the hyperion and used the bpc to make the new version. The 5 Merlin's took about he same time as the BS, 4 or 5 minutes "in production".
I should have seen/read this blog entry sooner to get some real details.
I'm disappointed that its not a case of applying the bpc, rather its a use of an in game mechanic that gives you a new ship... not a respray of an old one.
So if you have a ship that you have been flying for years and want it to look like one of the new models you will have to essentially reprocess your old ship and get a new one.
This isn't ship reskinning.
Having a ship put into an Avatar-like editor IS ship skinning:
http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/1202/20120209023127.jpg
I hop that this "early" test period makes CCP go ahead with a proper ship reskinning tool.
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