The Future of Exploration Ship Choices

Aussiedroid

Aussiedroid
For me, the Asp has everything I could need for exploring. A higher tier ship, I think would only need a bigger fuel tank and jump range and perhaps a completely open cockpit.

Either way, it might not be worth upgrading to something better unless you are purely a dedicated explorer, still more ship options the merrier :)
 

Vasious

Vasious
Alvatore said:
I've heard stories about areas of space rich with unscoopable brown dwarfs.
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Yes there are areas with abundant Brown Dwarfs, but in areas rich with stars I can get ~250 light years on a tank, and I have not come across an area where where was no scoopables in 250 lights years of another
 

smiths121

S
Hi All,

Missed page 3 - so might have come up.

Does anyone think 2nd fuel tanks will make some of the ships after the Asp convertible to an explorer?
Asp is the biggest ship I have own, so I do not know the larger ships that well, I was thinking Python.

Simon
 

CMDR Makaira

CMDR Makaira
smiths121 said:
Hi All,

Missed page 3 - so might have come up.

Does anyone think 2nd fuel tanks will make some of the ships after the Asp convertible to an explorer?
Asp is the biggest ship I have own, so I do not know the larger ships that well, I was thinking Python.

Simon
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It would depend on the area you would be exploring. As I understand it, a second tank would add more range overall (i.e. more jumps) but less range per jump. This is fine for most places in the galaxy, but where the stars are thin, this sort of set up wouldn't work.

Personally, I'd like to see a pure exploration ship with a 50ly range; maybe 60ly stripped down. Enough compartments to fit all the necessary scanners, AFMU's, light shields, and a class 6 fuel scoop. One 32t tank would be plenty. Minimal hard points (maybe two class 1s) and 2 to 4 utility mounts for heat sinks and maybe shield boosters for the paranoid explorer. :p Visibility and manueverability are important, but speed not so much. Pricing should be 10 to 20 million, preferably the higher end. Size would be around the same as the asp, but maybe a different manufacturer. Zorgon Peterson perhaps?
 

Varrag

Varrag
Once the atmospheric flight, planetary landings and alien races come, we might need a bit more specialized ship. Also, it wouldn't be bad if we can get limited ability to make longer jumps so that some of the currently unreachable systems and star clusters can be visited. Exploration is mini profession same as trade, for example - I don't see any reason why us explorers shouldn't get our top-of-the-line ship like they did.

You can check out my proposal for an ultimate explorer ship in my signature link.
 

Vasious

Vasious
CMDR Makaira said:
It would depend on the area you would be exploring. As I understand it, a second tank would add more range overall (i.e. more jumps) but less range per jump. This is fine for most places in the galaxy, but where the stars are thin, this sort of set up wouldn't work.

Personally, I'd like to see a pure exploration ship with a 50ly range; maybe 60ly stripped down. Enough compartments to fit all the necessary scanners, AFMU's, light shields, and a class 6 fuel scoop. One 32t tank would be plenty. Minimal hard points (maybe two class 1s) and 2 to 4 utility mounts for heat sinks and maybe shield boosters for the paranoid explorer. :p Visibility and manueverability are important, but speed not so much. Pricing should be 10 to 20 million, preferably the higher end. Size would be around the same as the asp, but maybe a different manufacturer. Zorgon Peterson perhaps?
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That is quite a shopping list
I don't think an Asp with a Class 6 FSD would be able to get to 50 to 60 light years if you could cram one in
 

CMDR Makaira

CMDR Makaira
Vasious said:
That is quite a shopping list
I don't think an Asp with a Class 6 FSD would be able to get to 50 to 60 light years if you could cram one in
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I think a ship similar in size to the Asp, but lighter, with fewer but more specialized internal compartments, and downsized sensors, thrusters, and power plant with a class 6 fsd should be able to reach the upper 40s if not 50ly. I'll agree that 60 may be a stretch, though.
 

nicomak

nicomak
Vasious said:
That is quite a shopping list
I don't think an Asp with a Class 6 FSD would be able to get to 50 to 60 light years if you could cram one in
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The very maximum i could find was 37.57 LY. But that's with a very downgraded, "barebone" Asp(Forget shields, scanners or boost, power dist at minimum).
Even the anaconda, with the least equipement posible barely reaches 41LY.

And that's the highest jump range you could have at the moment.
 
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Vasious

Vasious
nicomak said:
The very maximum i could find was 37.57 LY. But that's with a very downgraded, "barebone" Asp(Forget shields, scanners or boost, power dist at minimum).
Even the anaconda, with the least equipement posible barely reaches 41LY.

And that's the highest jump range you could have at the moment.
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Oh we are talking about a hypothetical ship.
The Class size is Anaconda sized, but if that was somehow fitted to an Asp sized ship, then I didn't think 50 or 60 light years would even be possible
 

Poseidal

Poseidal
A stripped down 38.94LY Anaconda (full fuel, has scratch shields) weighs in at 563.6 - the Asp is a bit lighter so I can see it pushing 50, but I don't know the calculation.
 

duckutus

duckutus
nicomak said:
Better : FSD-capable scanner Drones ;)
Well that migt not last very long though.
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that could be very nice for that ONE other star 250000ls out.... deploy drone and while its underway survey the planets orbiting the mainstar...

otherwise we have FSD-capable scanner drones.... they are known as the players ship :)
 

Iori

Iori
I hope the Courier is good for exploring, if not, the Clipper will do with a fuel tank upgrade.

I refuse to fly one of those anti-aesthetic ASPs
 
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Allitnil

Allitnil
Poseidal said:
A stripped down 38.94LY Anaconda (full fuel, has scratch shields) weighs in at 563.6 - the Asp is a bit lighter so I can see it pushing 50, but I don't know the calculation.
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You can get the formula from https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?p=643461#post643461

If my calculations are correct, if you could shoehorn a 6A FSD into an Asp it would manage 64 LY.

Personally, I wish ED could be relaunched with every ship having a lower range. It's already rather silly when we've got people reaching Sag A* in less than 12 hours and a trip to somewhere like NGC 7822 takes only a little over an hour. The galaxy is supposed to be big!
 
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