Will custom skins be seen by others for the unranked servers in the future?

[=GW=Agent_S]

Just wonder, why for a long time many players including me made lots of amazing painting but bad things is we can't actually use it in the muil-play. I think probably in the future this problem will be solved? Other wise, it is pretty bad can't show others our unique fighter which painted by ourselves.

[TG-55Panthercules]

I haven't flown BoS/BoM for a while and don't do MP generally, but I'm puzzled as to exactly what you mean by your statements - has something changed recently?  IIRC, it used to work like it does in RoF, i.e., if the other players in a MP server mission have the custom skin you are using downloaded and installed on their PC, then they will see you in that custom skin, and if they don't, they will see you in the default skin for that plane type.  Are you saying that even the other players who do have your custom skins installed on their PCs don't see you in your custom skin?  Is there perhaps some server-side setting that might be keeping that from happening?

[Asgar]

still works like that

[Jade_Monkey]

it doesnt look like it's planned as a feature.

 

It would probably take a lot of bandwidth because it would have to be downloaded for every player in the server.

 

Not likely to happen, I wish.

[TG-55Panthercules]

it doesnt look like it's planned as a feature.

 

It would probably take a lot of bandwidth because it would have to be downloaded for every player in the server.

 

Not likely to happen, I wish.

 

What's not planned?  Are you talking about some automatic mechanism that would send all the skins being used by MP players on a server to the other MP players on the server to make sure everybody had all the relevant custom skins?  I think you're right that there isn't a plan to include something like that, though I don't know for sure.

 

That kind of thing does seem like it would be helpful since there are so many custom skins and the chances of everybody having them all is pretty slim, so it would be nice to have some sort of automatic way to make that happen.  But there would be a lot of complexity (as well as time and bandwidth issues) to make that happen, especially with players coming and going from servers all the time, and I'm not sure how such a mechanism would deal with the fact that some players affirmatively won't want to see some other players' custom skins (e.g., I really don't want to see somebody's Hello Kitty skin) and thus would want/need to somehow block that skin from being downloaded.