It would be nice to be able to have an Amarrian logo (or other empire) on the hull of the ship, or maybe even a corporate logo. That's an upgrade I'd be happy to pay a few $ for to have the PIE logo on the side of my Apocalypse!
Archie
I've wondered for years why this was not implemented from day 1 - EVERYONE is in a corp, even if it's 'only' Scope etc. And thus, everyone has an emblem of sorts. People who might worry about childish emblems etc. have nothing to fret about, the corporate/alliance logos pops up whenever you check toon info anyhow. Adding a small square area of each ship dedicated to corporate emblems that automatically apply once you board the ship is not to hard, I'd think. Will it add much to the lag-issue? Low-end PC users have the options to turn off quite alot - turn down graphics, no sound, no weaon fire effects, etc. etc. etc. how about 'no corp logo' button?
Also, to make it easier to add/remove emblems, one could simply make the logo-section(s) of each ship a holographic emitter of some kind that simply pasters a 2D image of the corp's emblem on the hull at the dedicated sections. In this way, if nothing else, ships could get 'uniform' appearances even if you have all 4 different Empire's ships and more in a single fleet.
Others have done somethign simmilar, actually. It may be a RTS game, but here's an example:
Linky.