I feel like this is something that should be a part of this game. Being able to assign the different fleet skins that are available to the player to the AI teams as well. Would be nice to be able to have 2 sophon teams in the game and have one standard and the other playing with the Mavros Fleet skins as an example. I feel like this would be a good addition to this great game.

Thanks,

Capt. Tyco

Thanks for the support. Feel like it's a worthy cause

I am a big fan of the of the Lumeris Buccaneer skin. I actually havent tried playing yet with the Heretic skins. They are a pretty slick from the preview screen though.

I get the feeling that people never really noticed that they couldn't change the AI fleet skins. If the option was there i feel like people would utilize the option.

i like it

This sounds like a great idea

I support this. 

+1 :)

would it just be made as like a drop down arrow when selecting the race to switch ship skins maybe?

This would be a really nice feature to add.

I would think a drop down arrow would possibly work. Maybe add another box next to the race name where you can select the fleet skin you would like?

Happy to see all the support for this thread. Glad to see there is community interest in this too.

-Tyco

Yes please.

An alternative would be to have the devs release the skins as indiviual applicable mods, then you can just click the mod skins you want.  I don't understad why we need two seperate techs which do the same, with the modding option being superior to the hard coded intigrated system.

Either way would probably look good. Whether it be the drop down arrow or seperate fleet skin box.

I'd really love it if the skins changed on events from the questlines, but I think it's impossible or they'd have done it already.

While we agree that it would be great for the skins to change with the quests (e.g. United Empire), the system is unfortunately not designed for that.

You didn't mention anything about AI players using skins.

I'm not a programmer, but as far as I understand the system was not designed with alternate skins in mind (as mentioned before), so it does require a bit of work on the UI and under the hood, so I'm afraid this feature is not a priority.

You've mentioned it can't be used for quest/script units, but that should be different from proper faction.

So, to sum it up, Amplitude

• releases hero ship skin as part of Digital Deluxe edition and Craver fleet skin, as part of preorder bonus;
• releases even more skins as community DLC reward;
• claims system was not designed with skins in mind (can't be applied to AI players)

That sounds like a huge oversight.

Again I raise the point, if it's difficult to hard code into the game, make a series of alternative skin mods and release them on the worshop. Then you can even have the skins used by the AI. This would take some time, but would't require any system overhauls 

I had not yet joined Amplitude back then, so I can not speak to how the Alternate Skin system came to be implemented as it is, but given some of the problems I've seen reported with the alternative skins, I have come to realize that the system is more complicated than I believed before.

I'm sorry to hear our priorities are mysterious to some people, though. In the recent months, our top priority was the collaboration with NGD and ensuring that they are in the best position to do a great job with their work on Endless Space 2. Nonetheless, we are closely following the forums and will do our best to answer as many concerns as possible, and will talk more about this before the release of the expansion.

I am hopefully that this feature will become part of the base game before too much time has passed. I am happy to hear that we are on the radar. 

I definitely think this could be possible knowing how ship skins are applied.

I agree. I would love to have different fleet skins for the AI. Going up against a Mavros fleet would be awesome!