Hooray for new ship. \o/

[Darrack]

Love the look of the new Python. I'm really hoping we finally get a dedicated Large Exploration ship, with a decent view out of the cockpit.

Spoiler: Er Hello :)

O7

 

[Flimley]

Yes but why?
The Python is as popular as it is because it's multi-role and it's the largest carrying capacity for a medium pad ship.
What is the MkII going to do the MkI can't?

I been thinking about this and recon because this ship was described as functionally different from other ships. It's perhaps either something to do with thargoids. Or, something to do with a new feature coming to elite dangerous later in the year.

Flimley

 

[Sublime]

Interestingly having just listened to it again, Arf does say about the Python Mk. 2

"it's functionally different to the ships that are in the game. There's a lot of different reasons for that."

That’s because it will be able to fly through the dense atmosphere of the atmospheric worlds that we will be able to land on.

 

[photomankc]

1) The MkII Python looks STUNNING

2) Please, please, please let one of the other new ones be a proper medium Imperial Ship (MkII Clipper?).

I would come back just to play with that.

 

[Ozric]

Spoiler: Er Hello :)

O7

That is a passenger ship not an Exploration ship. The cooling is shocking. The fins on the back are completely impractical, especially when picking though Lagrange clouds. And more than half the cockpit view is obscured I could go on.

 

[GroG79]

It is also not a medium...

 

[Fizzatron]

That is a passenger ship not an Exploration ship. The cooling is shocking. The fins on the back are completely impractical, especially when picking though Lagrange clouds. And more than half the cockpit view is obscured I could go on.

How about a Type 8 Explorer?

 

[AnchorWriter]

That is a passenger ship not an Exploration ship. The cooling is shocking. The fins on the back are completely impractical, especially when picking though Lagrange clouds. And more than half the cockpit view is obscured I could go on.

It looks like it's designed for hypersonic entry/departure from atmospheric worlds, so obviously, it's a Buckyballer.

 

[Darrack]

That is a passenger ship not an Exploration ship. The cooling is shocking. The fins on the back are completely impractical, especially when picking though Lagrange clouds. And more than half the cockpit view is obscured I could go on.

So you wont be taking one to Beagle then like i did?

O7

 

[Qasmir]

2) Please, please, please let one of the other new ones be a proper medium Imperial Ship (MkII Clipper?).

If so, there'll be a Fed ship too (probably a small)

 

[Rat Catcher]

it's functionally different to the ships that are in the game.

It can fit the all-new intergalactic drive, ready for the Andromeda jump...
(New feature - Open PvE, in Andromeda)

 

[Sublime]

I would love it if they posted the ship stats and internals well ahead of release so that we can fiddle around with all the possible builds.

 

[Ozric]

How about a Type 8 Explorer?

So you wont be taking one to Beagle then like i did?

O7

Although the T-6 is a great little exploration ship.

 

[HRDiagram]

I am disappointed, everything is so underwhelming, and always below my already low expectations.

Bah!

disclaimer: this is a token negative post - it might not reflect my actual thoughts

 

[Shurimal]

It does look smaller and lighter than the MKI and has this space shuttle-like shape. Speculation is a thankless job, but exoatmospheric capabilities for travelling through thicker atmospheres is plausible judging from its shape alone. Of course, there are other ships that look like they could manage re-entry well-- Adder and FDL are obvious space shuttles and Kraits have the classic lifting body shape.

Then again, it's far from given that the new feature will be landable planets with thick atmospheres. The functional difference could be anything--caustic resistant hull for AX stuff, hybridization with Guardian tech, walkable interior...

 

[Rat Catcher]

Bah!

 

[Einar Donarsson]

That’s because it will be able to fly through the dense atmosphere of the atmospheric worlds that we will be able to land on.

HAH, i wish! But i do not think that will happen in the forseeable future.

 

[FixMeNow]

I didn't watch the stream so i have a question.

All four ships going to be variants of ships we already have?

 

[Northpin]

I didn't watch the stream so i have a question.

All four ships going to be variants of ships we already have?

Apparently - but if they're functionally different - then are they still variants?

 

[aRJay]

Nah, Anaconda looks like a proper ship - the big cargo bay, the front observation deck, the back seated bridge - from where you can observe the 2 large ax mc turrets beautifully tracking their targets
Hell yeah!

Explorer variant with the cockpit at the front so you can actually see something other than Anaconda would be nice.

Yes but why?
The Python is as popular as it is because it's multi-role and it's the largest carrying capacity for a medium pad ship.
What is the MkII going to do the MkI can't?

Perform better than it looks!