Isn't MKIV considerably slower, have smaller jumprange, can't really take advantage of the extra hardpoint due to undersized distro? Yeah, not really a ship for me, the kickstarter veterans can keep it
MKIII but perfection improved, and we're talking
Something I keep looking at TBH. I don't need a Cobra mk4 when I have an Asp Scout.Isn't MKIV considerably slower, have smaller jumprange, can't really take advantage of the extra hardpoint due to undersized distro? Yeah, not really a ship for me, the kickstarter veterans can keep it
Well, they touted it so much as a rival to the Jumpaconda, and nothing else but range which would be relevant to an explorer got any mention at all, it seems forseeable that this may become its most popular role. Just a long-distance travel ship, whether used in exploration or otherwise.
The best thing about an Anaconda as an exploration ship is that when you get to where you're going and realise how poorly it manouvers in supercruise, how difficult it is to land on planets, how poor the visibility from the cockpit is, is that when you get fed up of it and turn it around to go home and swap it for something else, it does get you there quicker.
To be fair they did make a point regarding the forward disembarkation and lighting around underside which would indicate exobiology.
To be fair, they are good to have on an expedition team. They can carry everything you didn't bring because you optimized your ship all the way. They can do scouting, rescue and repair. Visiting Beagle Point in a group with a participating Anaconda letting everyone play with his SLFs is a party you remember. If Mandy gives Conda a run for its until now unique range, it won't do all of the other things. It would be boring if there was only one meta and everything else obsolete.
That's true, so easy to forget. Anyway, my original post was formulated as open questions, not criticism of things we don't know yet. The cockpit view limitation seems pretty obvious though.
Better than the Anaconda (a ship I had long enough to fly it out of the mailslot, then back in and sold), that is a flying heap of slurry...
Whaaaat … being happy with getting new ships to fly in your spaceship flying game? Outrageous!!
Precisely. For exobiology a ship that is easy to maneuver (especially in yaw!) and easy to land in rough territory outweighs one which has better downward visibility, but needs a perfectly flat 100x200 meters patch of surface to set down.
You can even use the outside camera while flying over ground, just takes getting used to not having a hud even when you don't actually need it. But we can ask about accomodations from designs announced for a purpose, not?
I'd quite like a Cobra V, and wouldn't mind it being a bit Python-like, so a strong all-rounder.
I used to think so too, then I read the story of Saud Kruger. The researcher's seat is already taken. Do we need another slow passenger liner?
The last ona Imperial? Why not Federal?
No, we need a fast medium pad Passenger ship, as any member of PDES or Op Ida will tell you.
By the way lore-wise, Saud Kruger ships are made in imperial shipyards.The fact is that some kind of new Cobra, Medium passenger liner and some Big And Allmighty is what we need, but the next one at the end of the year sounds like something amazing.
Or two ships at once, one for Imperial and one for Feds, but I am not sure is it income-friendly solution for Frontier, and as we know, they need money to make this game bigger and greater
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