Corvettes and Gunships in Elite?

Gwyvern

Gwyvern
Hello, pretty recent backer here (though i really just pre-ordered the game months ago, and have been following this project long before that, i'm only now starting to get involved with the upcoming standard beta)

Ive seen a big list of ships that will be in this game, up to 25 at launch from what i have heard, and i was wondering if any of those ships will be akin to corvettes or gunships? The Anaconda seems to be the closest to this description, being extremely well armed, and i certainly look forward to being able to fly one, but it is still just a *very* versatile freighter with a primary focus of cargo hauling, and a secondary focus of being really damn beefy. What i am really looking for though is something around that size with a primary focus on combat, high speeds or tough skin wrapped around a set of disproportionately large teeth. at the detriment of cargo utility or whatever might be unnecessary for a deadly and compact warship.

Can anyone confirm or deny whether or not there will be anything of this sort in Elite: Dangerous

Concept art is appreciated if available, the current wiki does not have much, and i'm a sucker for ship design.
 

ste

S
Corvettes (Cutters): Light multirole warships, capable of recon, incursions and escort missions. These small warships are also popular with smaller factions, organizations and even wealthy individuals due to their adaptability. The Imperial Cutter is a lighter and faster Corvette-class ship, which players will be able to get their hands on in the final game (assuming they can make the right contacts)
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No concept art that I know of.
 

Gwyvern

Gwyvern
ste said:
No concept art that I know of.
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i heard of that though the lack of information and the fact that its wiki page links an image of the imperial courier (which from what i know is a totally different ship) led me to question the validity of its existence/playability.

I wonder if there will be a federal ship of similar class, or maybe an alliance cutter.
 

Swan

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I love the idea of this - it'd certainly have an appeal based around a nascent armada warfare mechanic to keep the game spicy long-term.

I would say that they'd have to be stupidly expensive though so every man and his dog isn't trundling from hither to yon in their fully outfitted warship. Perhaps something that groups and guilds can team together to buy or somesuchlike to utilise during their misadventures in the cosmos?

I do have a seed of hope that capital ships will eventually become available, but I suppose that's down to whether Frontier are making enough to warrant such expansions. Best just wait for the release version first anyway ;)
 

ste

S
This one?
Empire_Capitalship_01.jpg


I dont know if thats flyable, I'm sure I read somewhere that we could fly capital ships or slightly smaller
 

Gwyvern

Gwyvern
ste said:
This one?
Empire_Capitalship_01.jpg


I dont know if thats flyable, I'm sure I read somewhere that we could fly capital ships or slightly smaller
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That is a full blown capital ship, the Imperial Interdictor. Corvettes are smaller, somewhere around the size of an Anaconda or slightly larger.
 

Gen-Han-Solo

Banned
Gen-Han-Solo
ste said:
This one?
Empire_Capitalship_01.jpg


I dont know if thats flyable, I'm sure I read somewhere that we could fly capital ships or slightly smaller
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I must admit capital ships look nice but I have said this before we should not be flying these big war ships , I don't want to play an empire building game unless we are helping the ncp factions.
I want to play a new version of what is the best space sim ever written Elite.
Large multi role ships that can fight and fly with a small crew sounds nice , and even carry one escort fighter that can be flown by an ncp crew member or a friend cool.
Please do not add player capital ships I really feel this would be a mistake .

http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=9894
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11308
 
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Pomerlaw

Pomerlaw
Swan said:
I would say that they'd have to be stupidly expensive though so every man and his dog isn't trundling from hither to yon in their fully outfitted warship. Perhaps something that groups and guilds can team together to buy or somesuchlike to utilise during their misadventures in the cosmos?
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That would be really cool.
 

ste

S
Gen-Han-Solo said:
Please do not add player capital ships I really feel this would be a mistake .
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Yeah, I agree. It would be nice to have to dock on one though, and it transports you into battle, if you are reped enough to warrant hiring to turn the odds of some war.
 

Pomerlaw

Pomerlaw
I would really like the option to dock on a bigger one, protect it and battle along with it. Or maybe control a turret on the big ship!
 

Daeron

Daeron
Being able to launch from a capital ship in a fighter, during one of those much needed cleanup operations, would be a nice item on any fictional faction expansion. Almost like a game within a game fighting scenario. :)
 

Adept

Adept
Executive control ships are coming later in an expansion. You don't fly them, you command and crew them.

I expect to see frigates and destroyers, and other mid-size warships.

The capital ships of Elite are 2km long battle cruisers, and player control of thrm would be utterly silly.
 

Pomerlaw

Pomerlaw
Adept said:
Executive control ships are coming later in an expansion. You don't fly them, you command and crew them.
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Maybe I'm stupid, but I have a hard time making the difference between command and flying?

You ask a bot to turn right or left?
 

PacalB

PacalB
Adept said:
Executive control ships are coming later in an expansion. You don't fly them, you command and crew them.

I expect to see frigates and destroyers, and other mid-size warships.

The capital ships of Elite are 2km long battle cruisers, and player control of thrm would be utterly silly.
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+1 Agreed totally.

And just hearing one of the devs in LaveCon mp3 say; "I'd really like to see ship co-op control!" Well, that just begs for later FD game expansion with frigates and destroyer classes or anything with 2 seats or more. It's got to be done, it's just got to be done at some point. :D
 

Adept

Adept
PacalB said:
+1 Agreed totally.

And just hearing one of the devs in LaveCon mp3 say; "I'd really like to see ship co-op control!" Well, that just begs for later FD game expansion with frigates and destroyer classes or anything with 2 seats or more. It's got to be done, it's just got to be done at some point. :D
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It's been confirmed in a newsletter. One of the coming expansions is "large executive control ships".
 
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