Currently on a 30 jump journey to the community goal... Cause balance or something. It's not enough fighters have no internals. Can I please put my 400 ton FDL into my 452 ton cargo hold of my Conda and use it? My Conda fully laden can go further than a fully stripped FDL. This isn't fun.
Does FD really think this is "healthy" balance?
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Not everything requires 'balance'. Some things are just better than others full stop 
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OR take a stripped Sidey and buy one if any are nearby - I remember I did this once and it was very dangerous as I had no hardpoints and got many Pirates after me!
What was your safe word for that journey?
I bet it's doppelganger, or Gibraltar. Something you can't pronounce while being totally hammered drunk
Only way I can imagine this trip can be accomplished.That was for illustrative purposes*, it's not my ship. I went there in an Orca.
*I stole it from that Reddit
I used to like that option in Eve Online, where you could pack up your ship and move it in a bigger ship. I used to do that with all my ships, modules and ammo as I changed homes around the galaxy, but I am not sure if it is the best solution for ED TBH.
You may as well give up now. There have been a LOT of threads detailing the absurdity of using FSD range as a balancing tool - seriously, trading a players time for the privelidge of using the ship they feel is best suited for a task? But there appears to be as many masochists on the forums as there are honk-jump haters so we will never agree
"Space is big" seems to be the recurring theme. Except space is considerably bigger in some ships than others, for reasons unclear to me.
"Space is big" seems to be the recurring theme. Except space is considerably bigger in some ships than others, for reasons unclear to me.
Sure, as long as you're willing to disassemble the FdL and put it in cargo containers, then reassemble it yourself when you want to use it.
... Yes, because when we want to move cars around what we do is ship them in pieces to a local factory, assemble them there, and drive them to the lot for sale. Oh, wait, no, sorry, we don't do that, we put them in a bigger vehicle and ship them that way. Also, it's not like these multipurpose ships would suffer from allowing people to have something to allow combat vessels to travel. Like, the FDL and the Python are roughly equivalent in cost. And yet despite being a combat oriented ship the FDL doesn't really out preform the python significantly, and it has the added bonus of being more or less crippled for jump range. The same goes for the Corvette and the Conda. The corvette is even a little more expensive doesn't outperform the Conda in combat that much despite being nominally a combat ship, and limps alnt at roughly half the anaconda's.
I get that at one point, the argument was that these were the biggest, most expensive ships, but they are not any more. We now have bigger, more expensive ships, if the idea is that ship price should determine the effectiveness of the ship, then that should be what happens. I agree that a sidewinder should not be as effective as a cobra should not be as effective as a python. But when we compare like to like in the price tiers? Then I assume, the idea is and should be, that the multi-role ships should be decent at either role but be outproformed by specialist ships, not be the thing everyone aspires to because they are the best thing in the game.
I get that at one point, the argument was that these were the biggest, most expensive ships, but they are not any more. We now have bigger, more expensive ships, if the idea is that ship price should determine the effectiveness of the ship, then that should be what happens. I agree that a sidewinder should not be as effective as a cobra should not be as effective as a python. But when we compare like to like in the price tiers? Then I assume, the idea is and should be, that the multi-role ships should be decent at either role but be outproformed by specialist ships, not be the thing everyone aspires to because they are the best thing in the game.
The ship generally seen as the best current combat ship, only disadvantage being it can't carry that much cargo or jump that far?
Yeah, that seems fairly well balanced, sure you may take a bit getting from a to b, but once you are there for the combat there you are going to do much better then those not in an fdl?
I found that the Conda outperforms the FDL in combat by a large magnitude.
Edit: what it lacks in mobility it makes up for in raw firepower. FAS's took FOREVER to kill.
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Well...yeah, but that is also why I said 'generally' Price point is definitely a factor and the FDL is cheap as these things go and fairly cheap to outfit as well compared to a conda or for that matter cutter/corvette.
According to the data here http://www.elite-dangerous-blog.co.uk/Blog/2015/5/21/elite-dangerous-ship-sizes-to-scale-updated a FDL is 51.6 metres wide, while an Anaconda is 61.8 metres. I'm curious as to how exactly the OP is expecting to fit one into the other. It certainly won't go in through any cargo hatch I can see, and short of making the Anaconda in two halves like an Easter egg I can't think how it could be done, if you are leaving room for the necessary internals. I suppose you could strap it to the outside, or tow it behind on a length of rope - though that might be a bit tricky when you tried to dock...
It's a game. The real world has advantages that would make you too powerful in a game.