...or maybe we just hit a single button in a supply station to automatically have all required commodities calculated, purchased, and instantly transferred to our build site?Now they just need to allow us to transfer goods to it directly from the station markets the way we do with ships.
I’m surprised that they didn’t remove that option for ships in EDO so that we can instead move the individual bins ourselves, on foot, from the station to the ship’s cargo.
New ship: Panther Clipper
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yes please
Can't get my FC through the mailslot though...
Nooo, make a noob hammer like appendage on the station you have to dock your carrier on to. Then you can just shovel the cargo down. How cool would that look.
A 6K ton freighter would not fit through either, you'd have to load and offload via shuttlecraft, pretty much like you can now shuttle to and from the carrier with a Panther soon. An actual huge ship with a class 8 FSD would be permitted to instance with the station though and park directly outside.
Do you have proof positive of this, or is the usual forum putdown?
Going by the 1x2 metre for the standard cargo canister, the interior of the Panther Kitten is mostly vacant space already!
Edit incorrect measurement
It just follows the game's logic. If you stretched the Panther to full pad length, you might be able to double the capacity, so 2400t. Go bigger and you blow the proportions that can still fit through.
So, no, then...
The game doesn't have any kind of logic when it comes to volume, everything certainly seems to have been plucked out of the air as a good idea.
Wasn't it @Morbad who calculated the volume of even the smallest of ships and concluded that they were mostly empty space?
The Panther Kitten has a massive volume already, most of it appears to be empty.
Its just taken up with the normal crew stuff, you know the gym, spa, Olympic sized swimming pool, cinema, casino, mini golf course etc
O7
Now you're describing my Starfield flagship
I got the ship model volumes from here.
The smaller ships seem to have fairly plausible densities, but it's like FDev forgot the cube-square law when making up the specs for the larger vessels--or simply enlarged them arbitrarily to give them a more grandiose scale. The biggest ships would literally displace more air, at one atmosphere, than their own total masses in lightweight configurations. The situation with the Panther is inevitably similar to the other largest ships.
Some decent information in this video. Still focuses on combat and not enough on transport.
Source: https://youtu.be/U94whY_vhvU?si=WgebtNn-0BAaG9jU
Again, I would really love to see this ship put through its paces landing at a port on a 1 g planet, and how will it handles coming in with a full load on a colony platform. Don't be gentle with it. Does it slide forever like a Cutter or drift with rapid deceleration like a T-9 Stock and unloaded doesn't tell me much. The T-9 having better pitch than the Cutter and the Cutter having way better roll is no surprise for me.
I guess I'll have to wait, too bad I'll be out of town next week.
Again, I would really love to see this ship put through its paces landing at a port on a 1 g planet, and how will it handles coming in with a full load on a colony platform. Don't be gentle with it. Does it slide forever like a Cutter or drift with rapid deceleration like a T-9 Stock and unloaded doesn't tell me much. The T-9 having better pitch than the Cutter and the Cutter having way better roll is no surprise for me.
I guess I'll have to wait, too bad I'll be out of town next week.
Yes, it would look magnificent when the centrifugal forces break everything apart...
Sell as many 1200 cargo as they can, then spring a 1500 on us for more cash. That wouldn't be a PR disaster at all...
The catch is that those would be two different groups of people. No one asking for more will complain about power creep, and vice versa.
Unless they do it by allowing more D class cargo racks. Although the jump range already suffers with the capacity it has. Class 8 FSD could solve that, but would also allow some absurd lightweight jump range.
The Type-9 Heavy and Type-10 Defender have similar hulls. So we should get a PC Mk II XL (Jumbo) that fills the landing pad with 2000 t (max) cargo capacity.
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We already have Anacondium and the Mandalay, I don't think a large ship with a heavy baseline hull (especially if it is tweaked with a class 8 FSD in mind) would kill anything. Probably.
Does that really matter in the grand scheme of the game?
We already have FCs that jump up to 500LY, the Mandy can almost hit 100, as can the Anaconda, in stupid underpowered, lighweight, configurations.
We already had FSDs of only one class like D. Why won't 8 be only E?
Because you're not a designer of this game