P-38J "Uncle Cy's Angel"

[Delirium]

Were any skins released this patch?

*crosses fingers*

[ink]

Were any skins released this patch?

*crosses fingers*

no

[SmokinLoon]

While he was in the LW server today, I asked Skuzzy directly "any word regarding new skins", and he responded that he would "...not be able to get to any new skins this week".

So... I'm guessing after the bugs are worked out of the latest version he will again pick up the task of getting to the new skins.  Which, I certainly hope so because there are some outstanding skins that are begging to be added and used.    

[B4Buster]

This will be my default skin once in game 

[Delirium]

CO or not, that is fighting words!

Since this skin was started, I have;

1. Gotten married.

2. Bought a house.

3. Have TWO kids.

4. Will likely been through 3 different people in the White House.

That is my default skin! I will not give it up willingly!

(of course, by the time it does appear, my 10 month old son will be graduating high school)

[Plazus]

Come on, Skuzzy, pull your head out of your arse and put this skin in already!

[cactuskooler]

Easy there, Plaz. Patience young Padawan.

[B4Buster]

CO or not, that is fighting words!

Since this skin was started, I have;

1. Gotten married.

2. Bought a house.

3. Have TWO kids.

4. Will likely been through 3 different people in the White House.

That is my default skin! I will not give it up willingly!

(of course, by the time it does appear, my 10 month old son will be graduating high school)

Del, as I am CO of the 80th, it is only fitting I fly the CO's virtual bird.

edit: Just saw the pics or your son, one cute kid!

[Plazus]

Sadly, though, my patience has run out. Waiting over two years for a skin to be rotated into the game is simply ridiculous... especially when one of the skinners offered to have his skin replaced with this- with the addition of squadron approval.

[oboe]

Coupla things -

I agree two years (even one year, even 4-6 months) is too long to wait for a skin to get in game.   The experience of waiting for so long for skins has left me thinking the custom skinning aspect of AH is broken, and I'd sooner see skin management decentralized and left in player's hands.   We would have many more offerings if players had control of what skins they used in game.   But i would also like some feature added to let me know how many times I run into a skin in an arena that I haven't installed - so I can make sure I download all the skins most people are using.

I'm even thinking turning skins into a profit center for HTC might not be a bad way to go.   HTC pays skinners some $$ for great-looking skins, then makes them available singly or in related skinpacks (all skins necessary for a scenario, for example) at an iTunes-like store app, accessible from the O Club- you can preview and download the skin for a small fee, added to your monthly bill.    Paying for extra content is the direction a lot of games are moving.   I'd consider anything just to encourage HTC to move along with skins!   We just seem to sit dead in the water month after month with nothing happening.  The new 32 skin limit per plane should've helped, but we haven't even had a skin release since that became available.

I think the way it is now is almost worse than not having custom skins at all.   

   

[Delirium]

To be blunt, the skin rotation is entirely up to HTC, the skinning team, and (to a VERY small extent) the AH community. Unless the community can completely disprove the historical basis the skin is modeled after, it moves on to the bowels of HTC where Skuzzy and the skinning team sacrifice goats and dismember monkeys in an attempt to get skins into the game*.

*Note: Uncle Cy's Angel is not included in his process and has been eliminated from ever seeing the virtual light of Aces High.

Say what?   Did I miss something somewhere?   What happened to Uncle Cy's Angel?   Hpw'd she get eliminated?

My most recent submission (P-38J "Journey's End") was submitted last January.  I never received a confirmation email, but in June I got an acceptance email saying the skin was in the 38J queue.   It's December now and the 16 skin limit has been doubled, so I assume Journey's End is out of the queue.  But she was not in the last skin update. 

I didn't want to hijack the other thread... my comment was a tongue in cheek *elbow nudge* towards possibly seeing this skin before I die of old age.   

[Butcher]

This isn't a skin this is 38 porn.

[killnu]

wow, it has been over two years....

[Delirium]

It was initiated on Aug 2008 by one skinner, and Cactus started his own version (the one in this thread) in Oct 2009.

I've been waiting a long time on this one.

[Delirium]

Has there been any progress on this skin? This month marks the 2.5 year mark for this skin.

No exaggeration, I only had one child when this skin was finished. Now, I have two children and my youngest is walking, talking, playing ball, and getting attention from the ladies.



From an Easter brunch we attended today, was taken with my cellphone camera.