F63 Condor in Supercruise
- Thread starter Arubeto
- Start date
What do you mean by "when these come in"? They are already in the game, how do you think I could take the screenshot?
I was remembering the old schematic, but you are right, that didn't say "no FSD", it just states "Hyperspace capable: no". Perhaps I deduced from that that the ship doesn't have a FSD and therefore can't enter SC, either. It says "short range craft" and "deployed by capital class vessels" after all, so I thought it couldn't cruise on it's own through a system at FTL speeds.
Last edited:
Well - if the in game lore supports the separation of supercruise and hyperspace, whilst using a common drive tech, then it would make sense to allow the condor to work with in-system travel.
There are 2 ways in which it could get to a war zone site - either by being carried there by a larger ship - and an Anaconda can only carry 1 (I think) - or by supercruising there.
So:
Guarding outposts by launching from those top secret bays in the side of them - yup, I can see that
Guarding stations by launching from docking bays - whilst I can see that, never seen one launch from a small bay. Not to say they don't, but never seen it.
Supporting cap ships by launching from their funky bays - yup can see that
Guarding Anaconda that brought it - yup (not yet implemented, but the in game lore supports small ships being carried by Anaconda)
Probably too small to carry interdiction kit, so unlikely you'll ever by brought down by one in supercruise. Would be interesting to interdict it and scan it to see what modules were installed (i.e. did it have a frameshift drive?)
So - all that remains is "how do they get to locations where they're needed that aren't covered by the above"?
....
There are 2 ways in which it could get to a war zone site - either by being carried there by a larger ship - and an Anaconda can only carry 1 (I think) - or by supercruising there.
So:
Guarding outposts by launching from those top secret bays in the side of them - yup, I can see that
Guarding stations by launching from docking bays - whilst I can see that, never seen one launch from a small bay. Not to say they don't, but never seen it.
Supporting cap ships by launching from their funky bays - yup can see that
Guarding Anaconda that brought it - yup (not yet implemented, but the in game lore supports small ships being carried by Anaconda)
Probably too small to carry interdiction kit, so unlikely you'll ever by brought down by one in supercruise. Would be interesting to interdict it and scan it to see what modules were installed (i.e. did it have a frameshift drive?)
So - all that remains is "how do they get to locations where they're needed that aren't covered by the above"?
....
*cough* when they are buyable *cough*
What I'd love is if there is a lore friendly way to bring maybe carriers into the game if these fighters are made available to us CMDR's.
Last edited:
Yeah, you are right. I wasn't thinking about how those F63 Condors turned up in the conflict zones without capital ship. But as I said, I already understood that I was mistaken in my initial assumption
Yes, sorry, I should have seen what you mean. But your choice of words when saying "if these fighters are made available to us" is very wise. I seem to recall some developer quote from long ago that stated these short range fighters would not be available to CMDRs, mainly because they can't perform hyperjumps and therefore have very limited game play value to CMDRs who normally travel between systems.
But perhaps my mind just made this up and there actually isn't any such statement by a developer. If someone else remembers more about this I'd really appreciate a corresponding quote!
Edit:
Well, that's interesting! Or is it just a bug?
Last edited:
X-Terminator
Banned
By far the coolest ship in ED! I wanna sign up and be System Security for a try. I've always said they should loan us ships that are for government jobs.
Last edited: