scuttles into the shadows
Admittedly Elite Dangerous's simulation and game mechanics is more stable and constant than the English language. (more stable than american bbq speak and bitish engwuish)
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Agility as in how it handles in SC and conventionally- for example the massive swivel thrusters allowing for much better general movement laterally, horizontally and vertically.
The most relevant question here I think is though is what do the ship design dept. consider the main roles of this ship in the game will be, what is the overall design going to end up as.
Frontier were well aware that (some) players wanted this ship to be re-instated back into the current game, have they also already decided what that role will be?...or is it presently a hot potato and are waiting to see players thoughts and suggestions are around this topic before finally releasing the ship.
Agility?...are we thinking in terms of general combat?
I personally see it being used as a type of shuttle with a humongous cargo capacity compared to the T9 or Cutter, (around 2000t - 2500t clean cargo capacity) in it's main role, for obvious reasons.
As for outright speed I agree, slow, and armed perhaps in a more of a defensive role, plenty of weapons placed all around the hull for example but but not having them concentrated so much for forward firing. That would also depend on it's agility in this respect, if the agility is low I can't see the point in placing large weapons (except for perhaps missiles) in those forward weapons slots (if it has any slots there).
Jack
In which case it would handle worse than the Type-9 in normal space when fully laden, and its jump range would be pitiful....Hmm I see your point, it would be simpler to just round up to 7,000 tons
I think (other than perhaps the cobra IV making it to general sale) The panther clipper has been the most requested ship since game launch. FD finally announcing it was always gonna get some peoples peckers upYeah, never thought it would be the Panther Clipper (of all things) that would inspire one of the longest (nearly 600 pages now) and most varied of ship threads!
I'd say four class 8's - T-9 and iCutter only got two. And the ususal complement of smaller compartments, adding up to another ~512 tons. (two 7's, two 6's - mostly paired in twos from the ship's symmetry, with hopefully 3 class 1 compartments for ADC, SCA and DSS). So maybe 1500 and change tons using all available space for cargo.
Well, at least 10.5 ly once you add a Guardian booster.
Not everyone has a Carrier to use the ship on short voyages only.That's fine with me because all it's going to be used for is going from station to my FC parked in the same system. We just need a colonization mule in the worst way right now.
However doesn't this thing have a gillion engines and thrusters for it's size? Like way more than any other ship in the inventory right now. So maybe it will be fine
if the ship was going to stay behind a paywall i would fully agree........ however so long as it makes it into the game for credits in a reasonable time frame (what is reasonable is open to debate of course) I personally am willing to give the benefit of the doubt but i do see where you are coming from.
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