I wonder if skins will end up being a useful "defense"-- in that by coloring your ship in a particular way, you may be harder to target from a distance, if the skin naturally blends you into the background.

If I was playing online and one ship had a bright color (white or solid red) and another was darkly colored with a design that broke up the outline of the ship-- well, it might be natural to target the white colored ship, you know?