Which classic Elite ship would you most like to see reincarned in Dangerous?

[Chazzie]

View attachment 14426The capital ship of the Thargoids, or am I getting confused....

Ah - that's Sovereign, A Reaper from Mass Effect.
Considering what Reapers could do - give me the Thargoids any day!

 

[Jackie Silver]

Hognose.

 

[Cmdr Pli55ken]

I maybe imagining it, but wasn't there a dreadnought or something like that in the original elite, huge ship that just cruised around, few KM long as well. This was on the C64.

Never saw that one on the C64. But I did see a carrier/transporter-type leaving stations that had smaller ships strapped to its belly (I think it was 3 ships and one obvious 'empty' slot). The manual mentioned huge 'generation ships' but that was just fluff (unfortunately).

 

[Doctor Axel]

+over9000 to anyone who has suggested the Krait. ^^ Also, the Gecko.

Basically if it's a bucket-of-bolts pirate/smuggler ship, I would like to give it a test drive. =P

 

[Koen]

I found this pic (original URL for bigger version http://i.imgur.com/fwcH0cy.jpg)

Those are the ships of Archimedes Elite, which was the best version (actually a complete rewrite) of the classic Elite.

 

[CmdrBulldog]

All I need is a Wiener ship that shoots Gnomes out the front:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienermobile#mediaviewer/File:OurDog.jpg

 

[iolair]

Yes, we must beat him with a stick until he screams "I demand they un-nerf something"

I demand they un-nerf the ship selection. Good ships, but not enough variety yet. In the words of Oliver Twist "Please sir, I want some more."

Now, enough with that stick. Seriously, ouch.

 

[davecrowley]

In keeping with the OP request of a ship from classic Elite, I vote the Constrictor.

Yes I know it was in FE2 and FFE, but it was also a mission ship on the Speccy version of Elite.

 

[StuartGT]

Here's the ship ID chart from the original BBC model B version:


And the C64 version:

 

[iolair]

The reason I did a poll only of classic Elite ships, rather than FFE: IIRC FFE had 49 playable ships, of which I think 7 are already in Dangerous. So I'd have needed 42 ships in the poll. I couldn't be bothered to set up a 42 ship poll (if this bulletin board even allows that many options).

My favourite ships in FFE were the Viper mk ii and the Imperial Courier. The Courier's meant to be on its way ... I can't see them putting the Viper 2 into Dangerous, though I'd love to play it if they did.

 

[Tox Laximus]

Back in the early 80's when I was around 12 years old there was a rumour of a massive dreadnought in elite, it was supposed to be 10 miles long, were the adults in the computer club lying to me?

 

[iolair]

Back in the early 80's when I was around 12 years old there was a rumour of a massive dreadnought in elite, it was supposed to be 10 miles long, were the adults in the computer club lying to me?

According to the original elite manual (as shared on Ian Bell's home page):

Space Dredgers These immense factory ships are to be found wherever there has been a war, or a Thargoid invasion, or a natural catastrophe. More than forty miles long, the dredgers are a life-form to themselves. The Dredgers are huge cities in space, feeding off debris and ruination. Heavily armed, and with fleets of reconditioned fighter ships, they are to be avoided at all cost.

It also mentions:

Generation Ships Before the development of the WS Thru-Space drive, in all its various forms, interstellar travel occurred in large, self-sustaining environment ships - Generation Ships - most of which have now been logged and their progress monitored. There are more than seventy thousand of these immense vessels ploughing their way through the galaxy, some of them into their 30th generation. The penalty for interference with such a vessel is marooning.

I put a lot of hours into BBC, Electron and PC versions of Elite, and never saw either of the above.

 

[Tox Laximus]

According to the original elite manual (as shared on Ian Bell's home page):It also mentions:
I put a lot of hours into BBC, Electron and PC versions of Elite, and never saw either of the above.

Only David and Ian know for sure, I wonder if anything like this is in ED, 40 miles long. :O

 

[Shoklar]

I'd like to see all the 'classic' ships redone for Elite Dangerous, but I also want them done better and not covered in fins like we're currently witnessing which just ruins the nostalgia.

Shok.

 

[trekman]

The only ship I want to see in the game soon is a Thargoid. It doesn't feel like Elite yet without the Thargoids.

 

[Varrag]

Moray sounds like something I'd love to use for long range exploration. And, hopefully, to dive deep into the oceans once planets are made accessible.

 

[Cmdr Pli55ken]

I put a lot of hours into BBC, Electron and PC versions of Elite, and never saw either of the above.

They weren't in the game (neither were space hermits...though I did once find an asteroid that was tagged as a targettable blip on the radar. But that may have just been a bug.).

 

[[VR] Frank_G]

...And the C64 version:
View attachment 14615

I remember that hanging right above my TV, where my C64 was connected to... Nice.

i would like to see the Krait as system authority vessel, some transporters and shuttles to create some traffic...

 

[Krait_79]

I guess a lot of people are missing the point. "Classic ELITE ship".

I vote for a Krait but it has to look closely like the original, not like the Adder which isn't even remotely Adder-ish

This. The Adder was a massive let down in terms of being faithful to the original!

 

[Tox Laximus]

They weren't in the game (neither were space hermits...though I did once find an asteroid that was tagged as a targettable blip on the radar. But that may have just been a bug.).

That's not how elite works, instead of saying its asteroid with a bug you say its huge massive great big humongous spaceship disguised as a rock and inhabited by bug creatures.