Request to Skinners

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by CWMV

You mean like repaint the stock skins?
Too easy.
Now why on earth would they turn off skins? Idiocy.

No no no...

I mean things like an aircraft unique symbol, for example on Farrels skins his blanks not only remove the number but also squad and unique aircraft symbols so the only way to keep them would be to use the marked skins and have in game markings off which means everyone would see a blank default skin.

[SNAFU]

Switched off markings only work for the your own view of your own plane, others still see the markings, even if you switched them off on your own plane settings. So if you use skin provided markings and switch off markings in your plane settings, others see the skin-markings and the game markings, which really looks bad, but only from anther plane. So that planes are blank if you switch off markings in the plane settings is new.

[JG52Krupi]

Yeah last night there were loads of 109s flying around without markings all were using custom skins and markings off when I asked the pilots.

[JG52Uther]

So it will be like the old il2 now, with just default skins seen online? Thats a real shame.
RoF has a great way of dealing with skins, all skins are officially aproved, and then downloaded as official skin packs.

[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

This is just bloody madness,why would they do this?what advantage has someone got flying around with a custom skin?,how ridicoulous

[CWMV]

Because we frakin want to, and because most of our skins look better than the stock ones.
I mean really how much time did they put into the 109 stock skins, 5 minutes?

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by Plt Off JRB Meaker

This is just bloody madness,why would they do this?what advantage has someone got flying around with a custom skin?,how ridicoulous

Well I see the yellow nose 109 as a huge give away why should I be forced to fly with it so it looks like I will be flying with none yellow nose default skins for a while

EDIT
However the benefits of turning it off out weigh the problems it causes at present.

[Ze-Jamz]

Originally Posted by Plt Off JRB Meaker

This is just bloody madness,why would they do this?what advantage has someone got flying around with a custom skin?,how ridicoulous

Mate, bit of a silly question?

Its a game.. I have used custom skins since day 1.. why? cuz they look better, its unique to me if i design my own and gives me a bit more identity

Why wouldnt you want to use custom skins?

[5./JG27 Lehmann]

Originally Posted by Ze-Jamz

Mate, bit of a silly question?

Its a game.. I have used custom skins since day 1.. why? cuz they look better, its unique to me if i design my own and gives me a bit more identity

Why wouldnt you want to use custom skins?

You've misunderstood him I think Jamz, I think he means more along the lines of "what unfair advantage has someone got flying around with a custom skin [read: ability to cheat or gain an unfair advantage over other people] so what's the point removing them"

Agreed on the issue though, I love flying skinned

Would be interested to know the reason this feature has been widely turned off? Does it cause lag on servers?

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

So it will be like the old il2 now, with just default skins seen online? Thats a real shame.
RoF has a great way of dealing with skins, all skins are officially aproved, and then downloaded as official skin packs.

+1000 I have requested this a few times, its a great system.