Why do paints have to be locked to your home location?

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Star Citizen encourages us to explore the 'verse, which is rewarding in both senses. We are away from 'home' a lot. Maybe all the time? I get that choosing your starting location should feel impactful and consequential - we're not all itinerant hoboes.

So, flying around doing stuff, if you have a few ships in your hangar and haven't claimed one this patch, you can have it delivered anywhere in minutes, free, at the click of a button.

News doesn't travel throughout a star system instantly (in game) but it certainly gets about. Contracts are quickly and easily broadcast between planets and systems, and some disappear when a player claims them.

But a paint scheme? Those don't travel well. If you have one, and want to apply it to your newly delivered ship, you have to trek back to your 'home' location to get it.

Why?
 

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Well not quite all paints are bound to your home.
Liveries you buy at Dumpers Depot wait for you at the location of the shop.
But every gear you buy on the CIG Website gets solely delivered to your home hangar.
They should take a page out of any other webshops book and add a "deliver to" option for our orders.
Only with an ingame location list to pick from.
Because if you buy that FOMO patch bundle you need to grab your trousers too.
Or that turret with the 2x S4 gatlings.
Or them bespoke Wulf guns.
Or...
damn...
this game's a money sink, ain't it?
 

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I mean pretty much everything else in game you need to physically transport from one place to another so I don't see why paints should be any different? It would be good if they were physicalised into big paint barells that you had to load on your ship tho :D
 
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I mean pretty much everything else in game you need to physically transport from one place to another so I don't see why paints should be any different? It would be good if they were physicalised into big paint barells that you had to load on your ship tho :D
And then spraypaint the sphips yourself with a SRT Tool or somesuch?
Sounds like something they might do in the long run... 😅
 
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