rotate skins every month

[caldera]

I don't know how many skins are on the waiting list or even how long before they show up in game.  Some of these skins may be arguably better than ones currently in-game.  To be fair, how about rotating the 15 skins from each model per month?  If a plane has more than 15 approved skins, the ones excluded could be in the following month's rotation.  This might even encourage more skins to be made, since having your work sit on a waiting list discourages making a skin in the first place (especially without a published rotation schedule).

[MachFly]

why not just add all of them at the same time?

[DEECONX]

why not just add all of them at the same time?

+1 

This would not work good for squad like mine and many others that are historically based. 352nd Fighter Group flying RAF skin is not right. Just add em all, OR make it so people can download what skins THEY want. So, if you shoot down a guy, PM and say, "Hey cool skin, what's it called, I want to download it."

[Motherland]

You can't see a skin you don't have downloaded....

[DEECONX]

You can't see a skin you don't have downloaded....

Well, change it   Make it so you can see other peoples skins, whether you have it or not. If this can't be done, then I will be happy with just having more skins, rather than "rotate" the ones we have now. Again, this would not be good for historically based squads.

[Motherland]

Make it so you can see other peoples skins, whether you have it or not.

Your computer can't display a file it doesn't have. That's physically impossible.

[Krusty]

HTC's turnaround for releasing skins updates can be (and has been before) 6 months or more.

I don't think they have the free time to go and tinker/rotate the P-51/P-47 skins every month.

[DEECONX]

Your computer can't display a file it doesn't have. That's physically impossible.

If this can't be done, then I will be happy with just having more skins, rather than "rotate" the ones we have now. Again, this would not be good for historically based squads.

 

[Nr_RaVeN]

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't there also a temporay loading issue with skin adintions.
Its my experiance to many skins can create pauses and shutters wile loading until they get populated in your net cash.
If they were always being rotated I'm thingking there would be a period of time were we may all experience some pauses do to loading on a monthly basis, if skins are enabled at least until net cash is repopulated.

[Guppy35]

+1 

This would not work good for squad like mine and many others that are historically based. 352nd Fighter Group flying RAF skin is not right. Just add em all, OR make it so people can download what skins THEY want. So, if you shoot down a guy, PM and say, "Hey cool skin, what's it called, I want to download it."

Here's the problem with "historically based" squads.  Too many of them come and go too fast to keep up.  Keep in mind you aren't the first 352nd in AH and you were the 361st last week   Both Oboe and Fencer made skins for historically based squads that were gone before the skins even made it in. 

Id suggest coming back in a year or two when you've been the 352nd that long and asking then

Might want to check with Skuzzy on the amount of work that goes in to adding and switching out skins in the game too.  It's apparently not a simple issue.

[Skuzzy]

It takes twice as much time to swap a skin out of the game compared to adding a new one.  It is not a trivial task.  Before I can consider a swap, I have to research to make sure the skin I am swapping out is not being used by a squad or in wide-spread use in the game.

Made the mistake of swapping a skin out, once, that was being used by a bunch of players.  I will never do that again.  The grief was over the top.

[caldera]

Don't hit me.







Points taken.  Had no idea of the difficulty or logistics of actually implementing such a wish.   

[VonMessa]

It takes twice as much time to swap a skin out of the game compared to adding a new one.  It is not a trivial task.  Before I can consider a swap, I have to research to make sure the skin I am swapping out is not being used by a squad or in wide-spread use in the game.

Made the mistake of swapping a skin out, once, that was being used by a bunch of players.  I will never do that again.  The grief was over the top.

Would it be much more of a task (to find out before swapping)  to take a simple poll?  (not trying to trivialize the awesome things you do for us all)

I know there are some skins out there that were made by players that haven't logged on for a few years (at least) that perhaps aren't being used at all but yet the max skins for the a/c in question has been reached.  Polling the players about what you would like to swap would probably go a long way in eliminating some of that grief (not that you don't have anything else better to do         )

[Krusty]

A poll where? On the forum? That doesn't get all the folks that use 'em in-game but don't follow the forums. In-game? How? "Which of these skins would you REMOVE?"

Not the right subject for a poll, I'd say. I would think it takes more work because of that.

[VonMessa]

A poll where? On the forum? That doesn't get all the folks that use 'em in-game but don't follow the forums. In-game? How?

Nope, in the MOTD, just like voting on new a/c  

"Which of these skins would you REMOVE?"

Which would you not remove?   

Not the right subject for a poll, I'd say. I would think it takes more work because of that.

Anything worth doing requires effort.

Logic only dictates that skins are swapped, rotated, or the number of slots available for player skins is increased.

Otherwise, I would think that skins that are made for an aircraft that has a full quota already would sit in perpetuity and never make it to game.