Pffffff its not about slot lay outs dude. I could care less about slots.

It's about damn time for racial parity. 18 months I've been playing this game, 2+ years its been in beta...... when will CCP develop the damn art assets for this core content?

Well obviously the aesthetics are a bit more important to you than they are to me in that regard, but to each his own.

I think making pseudo racial variants without any change in gameplay for those variants is shortsighted, but that's just my personal opinion. I mean if they had released all the new heavies and they had the same slots and stats as the Amarr Heavy, everyone would have said "-___- really? We waited for a reskin?"

Im not really sure what the paint job has to do with balance but ok...

To act as a place holder for the racial vehicles. Even as place holders they should still give the impression of being tied to a specific racial group. If updating the game for these requires a client side fix I see no reason why CCP could and should not reskin them.

Right but you make it sound like you wouldn't change the stats or slot layout and just keep them the same as the existing ones?

No we would need the alterations made to test the varied playstyles of the vehicles..... that's half the point of placeholders.

It would allow for vehicle balance to be worked on in DUST with multiple iterations to get the 4 racial vehicles balanced against each other. This would allow all the base combat balancing to be done before Legion even goes to beta, so they donGÇÖt have to worry so much about balancing issues and can concentrate on other aspects of the game. It would be a great benefit to CCP to do this.