Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Turns out it's the Land Of Grey And Pink

And now I have Bucks Fizz's "Land of Make Believe" on my brain so thanks for that *



* EDIT: Do not, under any circumstances watch the official video. Your cringe gland will never be the same again and you'll have an unremovable earworm. You have been warned.

 

[KnezBP]

And now I have Bucks Fizz's "Land of Make Believe" on my brain so thanks for that *



* EDIT: Do not, under any circumstances watch the official video. Your cringe gland will never be the same again and you'll have an unremovable earworm. You have been warned.

How dare you besmirch Buck's Fizz, sir. The girls are hot in that vid.

 

[Galoel]

I am trying to find a new ship that i would like ,i have worked alot to be able to get my corvette and cutter . so i went for corvette fully upgraded, witch i am proud of since my beginning lol. now i witch to find a ship that would do all the other things that corvette is best for . i am not the kind of guys to collect ship having 1 to focus is my thing but now i am starting to think about getting a second for the rest of things.

What would you guys suggest ?

got a few thing tho.
i wish to be able to land anywhere with it,doing trade,passenger,ground missions everything apart from combat actualy.
i dont need the top best of the best ship that do best in specific branch. juste a good overall ship .
sorry for my bad english hope to find with your help my dream second ship

 

[Markov Chaney]

Nice little pink stroll in the pink sunset up a pink hill to get the pink mushrooms, then

 

[KnezBP]

I was just checking in to see if there was another CG available. I was thinking earlier today how much easier it would've been to upgrade ships as a new player had there been as many CG's as there have been in the last year. It's easy money. Though maybe they've always been as frequent and I just didn't pay attention. It's not something I thought about before Cocijo.

I suppose money can't buy you mats at least, so there's still an early restriction in that regard.

 

[Codger]

i wish to be able to land anywhere with it,doing trade,passenger,ground missions everything

No ship can do all that, sorry to say.

You'll be better off focusing on one thing, and then outfitting your ship for that.

Then get another ship and outfit it for the next thing you want to do.

All-rounders are just all around crappy.

 

[Galoel]

No ship can do all that, sorry to say.

You'll be better off focusing on one thing, and then outfitting your ship for that.

Then get another ship and outfit it for the next thing you want to do.

All-rounders are just all around crappy.

well i wanna do cargo so cutter it seems lol

 

[Ashnak]

....
got a few thing tho.
i wish to be able to land anywhere with it,doing trade,passenger,ground missions everything apart from combat actualy.
i dont need the top best of the best ship that do best in specific branch. juste a good overall ship .
sorry for my bad english hope to find with your help my dream second ship

That's a tall order.
"land anywhere" would restrict you to a small ship. Small ships are small, so your profits in cargo or passenger runs will be restricted.
Apart from that, the best general purpose ships are probably:

• small: Cobra Mk. V
• medium: Corsair
• lange: Cutter, with the Anaconda as follow-up, until the Panther Clipper is released

The release of the new generation of ships has definitely upped the stakes, it's become very hard for the old style ships to compete against that. If you try them, don't start with the CMV, she will spoil you for all other ships.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

To add, if you want to explore, the Mandalay is probably the best, with the Phantom and AspX to follow.

However, don't overlook the Dolphin; this has the advantage of being a small ship which makes landing (almost) anywhere much more viable. Decently engineered (and that's a whole thing in itself ) and outfitted, you can get a pretty decent jump range.

As has been said before, a complete all-round ship doesn't really exist. Some come close-ish but have downsides.

@Ashnak has listed the ones that come closest.

You could add the Python for a medium ship, though, or perhaps a T8. An alternative small ship could be the Cobra III.

 

[IstvaanDCIV]

You know what's really cool? When you've just got done engineering the four Pacifier Frags on your Python Mk2, and then jump into a Weapons Fire signal source to test them out, only to have the civvie you're trying to rescue from piracy fly right into your line of fire and immediately blow up. D'oh!

I swear, NPCs have the survival instincts of Lemmings.

 

[aRJay]

I was just checking in to see if there was another CG available. I was thinking earlier today how much easier it would've been to upgrade ships as a new player had there been as many CG's as there have been in the last year. It's easy money. Though maybe they've always been as frequent and I just didn't pay attention. It's not something I thought about before Cocijo.

I suppose money can't buy you mats at least, so there's still an early restriction in that regard.

Back in the day there would be two CGs every week, however although the rewards could be good when starting out they weren’t as high relatively as they can be now.
Some of them were to aid the building of capital ships, some where to establish new stations with a follow up CG where the tier reached determined the facilities available.

There were a few that released a new module into the game, before my time there was one for Corrosion Resistant Cargo Racks which effectively failed, the big draw CGs were the ones with decals as rewards.