Ships The Python; damn near perfect except...

crutonius

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So after many hours of flying a space cow(T7) I finally got a Python! It looks badass. It dominates on the battlefield. It's great at hauling and can even explore pretty well. There's just one problem that's hard to get around. The freaking cockpit is hideous!

I'm looking at this thing from my Oculus Rift and the ceiling is about a foot above my head. There's some kind of slightly up and to my left. And I look over to the right and I see an empty seat. I feel like I'm flying a station wagon. Why is there an empty seat? Do I have a space wife who left me? Is it because I spent 19 hours trading in a T7 and ignoring the family? And this is a British made game so the steering wheel is on the wrong side. Is this some sort of veiled criticism of U.S. reliance on private transportation or something? I'm really missing the Asp.

Unless you use an Oculus it's hard to appreciate how terrible the cockpit is. I don't suppose there's any hacks to give me a different cockpit view?

Well, that's my rant. Back to blowing stuff up.
 

Stealth Gamer92

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Asp has a secod seat too. Python is meant to have a crew, not just a pilot, and it make sense to hve a primary and secondary seat in lage ship's in case of emergency. As for the , no comment there.
 
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who?

who?
Many / most of the ships have a second seat, the Asp (as mentioned above), the Cobra, the Vulture.. probably all the bigger ships.
 

Dr Roly

Dr Roly
What annoys me about the Python cockpit is the mullion (look it up) that is there in the cockpit view but not the external view. Apart from that, as a rift user, I like the aesthetics of the Python cockpit. I like how it feels like a no-nonsense military transport. I like the dated yet sci-fi vibe of the cockpit; it suit's the ship's history. It's a time proven ship for shifting stuff and fighting, not pampering the crew.

All cockpits (more like cabins actually) are much bigger than they would need to be IRL, even the Eagle with that long corridor behind the pilot's chair. My guess is it's a design decision for when the "walking around your ship" module gets added.
 

Guidebot

Guidebot
Doesn't the Anaconda have an eight-man bridge? Pretty lonely there too.

I thought the same when I first sat in my Python; damn this is ugly.

Nothing changed, but now I love that cockpit.

I just... can't explain it.
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
If I understand you correctly the problems are:
- the height of the ceiling,
- a ,
- an empty chair.
- the location of the steering wheel


Those are exactly the things I happen to love about the Python's cockpit.
 

Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
crutonius said:
Why is there an empty seat? Do I have a space wife who left me? Is it because I spent 19 hours trading in a T7 and ignoring the family? And this is a British made game so the steering wheel is on the wrong side. Is this some sort of veiled criticism of U.S. reliance on private transportation or something? I'm really missing the Asp.
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I believe the British have the steering wheel on the correct side... It's just the rest of the world that's the wrong way around... :D

(Obviously sarcasm)


On topic the lack of cockpit visibility is a drawback from flying bigger ships. Imagine the Asp as a Humvee or light APC. The Python by comparison is a tank with much increased armour and shields but at a cost of manoeuvrability and visibility. Built more for jousting and blasting than dogfighting and dancing :)
 

Brujah

Brujah
I really really hate the cockpits with a random extra empty seat. I had to turf my Cobra early because of it.

The Asp I can live with, because you can't see the extra seat, it's below you. It's also a really nice place to be.

I got the Diamondback Explorer for about an hour, then sold it because its cockpit is just awful. It makes the Hauler look like a Rolls Royce.
 

Stealth Gamer92

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Brujah said:
I really really hate the cockpits with a random extra empty seat. I had to turf my Cobra early because of it.

The Asp I can live with, because you can't see the extra seat, it's below you. It's also a really nice place to be.

I got the Diamondback Explorer for about an hour, then sold it because its cockpit is just awful. It makes the Hauler look like a Rolls Royce.
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The Db Explorer's buit to work and that's the feel the pilot's view give's off, like heavy construction equipment. Just like Python scream's millitary.
 

persephonius

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Also consider that the Python series is 600 years old now. It is a dinosaur of a ship model. It would be the equivalent of using a horse and cart today.
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The python looks do have a classic feel to them when you consider this, like earlier Mustang and Camaro car models.
 

Poseidal

Poseidal
crutonius said:
Why is there an empty seat? Do I have a space wife who left me? Is it because I spent 19 hours trading in a T7 and ignoring the family?
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Yes. While the Cobra is the lovers' getaway ship waiting to be filled, the Python co-pilot seat is just to remind you of how lonely you are, and it has a big panel on the side to show the gap between you if the other seat was occupied.

After all, if you weight it up, in terms of Space Cars, the Python is a 1970s Volvo.
 

Mephane

Mephane
1. The Python has one of my favourite cockpits in the game (Eagle is my personal #1 though).
2. My only issue with the cockpit is this:

Mephane said:
Replace the outlined area with more glass (i.e. make the adjacent glass panel larger) - same on the left side:
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This is how I imagine the new outline of the glass panel:
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Lord Vakko

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DnAuK said:
Really agree with you about the wood. It's not even nice wood. Cheap teak effect like an 80s TV.

I have to think that, along with paint jobs, Frontier could sell us some cockpit makeovers.
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Considering you spend about 99.9% of the time inside the cockpit...
 

DnAuK

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Lord Vakko said:
Considering you spend about 99.9% of the time inside the cockpit...
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Yup. I've never been tempted with a paint job as I rarely see the outside. But a nice carbon fibre cocpit upgrade... maybe with some leather and contrast stitching...would be quite nice.
 

dayrth

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dayrth
Not just us British drive on the left you know. All these do as well:

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

Australia

Bahamas

Bangladesh

Barbados

Bermuda

Bhutan

Bophuthatswana

Botswana

British Virgin Islands

Brunei

Cayman Islands

Channel Islands

Ciskei

Cyprus

Dominica

Falkland Islands

Fiji

Grenada

Guyana

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Jamaica

Japan

Kenya

Lesotho

Macau

Malawi

Malaysia

Malta

Mauritius

Montserrat

Mozambique

Namibia

Nepal

New Zealand

Pakistan

Papua

New Guinea

St. Vincent and Grenadines

Seychelles

Sikkim

Singapore

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

Sri Lanka

St Kitts and Nevis

St. Helena

St. Lucia

Surinam

Swaziland

Tanzania

Thailand

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

United Kingdom

US Virgin Islands

Venda

Zambia

Zimbabwe
 
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