Ships Lakon Diamondback, how much will it cost?

Makya

Makya
Bortas said:
I really have no idea, what a "mining ship" could be.
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With the addition of the drones and the added modules needed to launch and control them plus a refinery, I would expect a ship oriented to mining would have a higher number of smaller component slots.

Also, the announcement refers to mining being higher risk/reward so a mining ship would need to be able to defend itself.

So my guess is the Diamondback is a multi-role ship that's particularly suited to mining.
 

andyraptor

A
My guess?

*Medium armed trader/mining ship.... fit somewhere between T7 and T9

price ..... um.... 35 Million

then after a brief campaign by the entitled/meme gang on the forum dropped to 20 Mill

all IMO and not meant to cause offence or anything else :)

*4 medium hardpoints
 
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xeixei

X
T7 - Diamondback - T9

It's a lakon, so another heavy freighter. Based on the look, it will have fairly good firepower to defend itself at RES and big engines for maneuvers. It will be a popular default mining vessel.

I'm calling it the unofficial T8!
 

WO-One

WO-One
Come on, if you want to know the answer to that, put a new battery in your Crystal ball.

Why ask a question no one knows the answer too!
 

CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost

C
OK, just having fun guessing:
- Lakon is known for its freighters and the Asp.
- there is a multipurpose ship missing between Asp and Python
- mining can be dangerous (high intensity, high profit RES coming with Power Play)

my guess:
- cargo between the ASP and Python
- weapons 4 medium 1 large; while used for mining this would result in 2 medium mining lasers, 2 medium weapons and one large weapon.
- speed a bit lower than FDL, boost a bit faster than FDL
- better turn rate than FDL, but lesser overall agility (similar to Cobra/Viper)
- jump range similar to Cobra maybe closer to ASP
- price of the hull below the FDL, higher class modules will make it more expensive than FDL if A fitted for combat.

Result: a poor mans FDL without a fancy look and without that huge weapon. Being a multipurpose ship it will have almost no power limitations, but in most combat aspects it will be slightly below the FDL.

Yea, just dreaming
 

Wallace

W
CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost said:
OK, just having fun guessing:
- Lakon is known for its freighters and the Asp.
- there is a multipurpose ship missing between Asp and Python
- mining can be dangerous (high intensity, high profit RES coming with Power Play)


my guess:
- cargo between the ASP and Python
- weapons 4 medium 1 large; while used for mining this would result in 2 medium mining lasers, 2 medium weapons and one large weapon.
- speed a bit lower than FDL, boost a bit faster than FDL
- better turn rate than FDL, but lesser overall agility (similar to Cobra/Viper)
- jump range similar to Cobra maybe closer to ASP
- price of the hull below the FDL, higher class modules will make it more expensive than FDL if A fitted for combat.


Result: a poor mans FDL without a fancy look and without that huge weapon. Being a multipurpose ship it will have almost no power limitations, but in most combat aspects it will be slightly below the FDL.


Yea, just dreaming
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If this does end up being a better mining ship - then the one thing I hope they have in the pipeline soon is a better explorer.


You can currently spend 75 mil on a Lakon 9 + trimmings.
You can currently spend 500 mil on fully combat-ratied Anaconda.
However, if you are an explorer, you spend around 18 mil on an best explorer-spec Asp, and you then have the best explorer in the game, and even if you amass another 200 mil credits you can't get anything better.


I've been doing a fair bit of exploring nowadays and coming across vast walls of "Route unavailable" because a 35 LY jump range won't cut it between some of these stars between the arms of the galaxy.


I'd like to see maybe a couple more explorer ships - perhaps one around the 15-20 mil basic price (probably 50 mil fully upgraded) with maybe up to a 45 LY range, and another being the top explorer around the 40 mil to 50 mil basic price (around 120 to 150 mil fully upgraded) which could do maybe 60 LY ranges. Extra large fuel tank etc.


Give explorers better choices once they get a decent wad of cash!
 

reverendK

R
CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost said:
OK, just having fun guessing:
- Lakon is known for its freighters and the Asp.
- there is a multipurpose ship missing between Asp and Python
- mining can be dangerous (high intensity, high profit RES coming with Power Play)

my guess:
- cargo between the ASP and Python
- weapons 4 medium 1 large; while used for mining this would result in 2 medium mining lasers, 2 medium weapons and one large weapon.
- speed a bit lower than FDL, boost a bit faster than FDL
- better turn rate than FDL, but lesser overall agility (similar to Cobra/Viper)
- jump range similar to Cobra maybe closer to ASP
- price of the hull below the FDL, higher class modules will make it more expensive than FDL if A fitted for combat.

Result: a poor mans FDL without a fancy look and without that huge weapon. Being a multipurpose ship it will have almost no power limitations, but in most combat aspects it will be slightly below the FDL.

Yea, just dreaming
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You more or less just described the Python... Which is already the multirole counterpart to the fdl...and the t9 the trade counterpart to those two.

M guess is a non faction equivalent to clipper and dropship... Sitting between 18 and 25 mil or so
 

PotatoOverdose

PotatoOverdose
Well, let's look at the Lakon line:
Type 6: 1,045,945
Asp: 6,661,153
Type 7: 17,472,252
Type 9: 76,555,842

If I had to guess I'd say it would be somewhere between 25 and 65 million, just because that's the huge gap that stands out.
 

Pinworm45

P
Agrar Therenus said:
It looks like a missile boat to me.
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This is how I feel. It looks like the Vulture but meant to shoot missiles instead of lazers. It looks like what the Raptor (well the missile launching variant, not the pure transport) is in Battlestar Galactica compared to the Viper which is comparable to the vulture, for this analogy
 

yul7896

yul7896
It'll be in the Federal Dropship, Type-7 price slot. With painite and osmium being found outside of human space, I think making mining profitable may also include a good enough jump range to get outside the 500ly bubble, and back. High Intensity Extraction Sites also implies mining will have its dangers, so reasonable hardpoints. At 17-20mil, I'd imagine the Diamondback will have a lot of potential.

I think those hoping for a miner will be happy, those hoping for an explorer will be happy, and those hoping for a well-armed, long range trader will be happy.
 

2chill

Banned
2chill
It will be X million credits to start with, but, depending on the level of moaning on the forums, it could end up being Y million credits or even Z million credits. Whatever the Diamondback is priced at, it is bound to be too expensive or too cheap.
 

Loskene

L
I'm also on the side of top tier mining ship, given what we know about the 1.3 update so far. Lumbering tank with hardpoints for mining lasers and anti-pirate turrets, a well placed cargo scoop and a lot of room for collection drones and refineries.
 
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