Brown Paint

[spocklin]

Please add some brown paint, I do not like wasting 3 other colors that I also need on making brown hull.

 

[Comr4de]

Considering that paint capsules usually number in the billions, how is this a problem

 

[Nickizzy]

And it'd really just be the same three paint capsule's basics put into one new BID

 

[Mariux]

Just make the factories paint 3 hulls per one set of 3 capsules

 

[Ithirahad]

Considering that paint capsules usually number in the billions, how is this a problem

Not quite a problem, just annoying. As unpolished lukrah is brownish, I find that it should be possible to make brown paint just out of lukrah (or lukrah and tekt).

 

[spocklin]

It is a problem. Why do we have hull colors that have no single paint derivative but have some that do? Seems like an inefficient system to me. Also to the thing you brought up Comr4de about billions of capsules, where are those numbers coming from? I certainly do not have a sufficient supply of rocks to keep up with my consumption. Many of my blueprints incorporate brown standard armor. Really it's just a pain to have to use up my other resources to make one color.

 

[Exozen]

Brown paint is already "in" the game... with both a texture, and an entry in the block XML thing (ID, name, description, the whole shabang)... except it isn't in the game because it's set to be disabled. FOR SOME REASON.

Amazing, right? . _.

 

[Valck]

Brown paint is already "in" the game... with both a texture, and an entry in the block XML thing (ID, name, description, the whole shabang)... except it isn't in the game because it's set to be disabled. FOR SOME REASON.

Amazing, right? . _.

Because before, people were complaining they had to manufacture brown paint from three constituent colours...

I don't see the necessity to have an extra resource just to manufature brown paint. There are eight minerals, each with their corresponding paint canister. If we should get more (or revive old) paint canisters, then the sensible thing to do is mix them from the existing ones.

In my opinion, it would restrict the possible range of colour choices for any new minerals, if any were to be introduced, if every new mineral would have to have a corresponding paint capsule. Leave it at the current eight "basic" colours, and mix any others (just brown for now) from them. If anything, overhaul the paint recipes to RGB+white and black, mix all other colours from them, and give the "leftover" minerals some new use.