Make ship purchase info clearer!!

[IiliI PEL IiliI]

When buying any ship, it never tells you exactly how many hard points, utility points etc it has. I always have to check external sources and it shouldn't be that way!! I like to know what I'm spending my hard earned money on.

Any chance we can get an actual detailed run down of the ship compartments and not just a quick overview of what is in there already?

 

[Rupert Pupnick]

Are you saying be able to see how the ship is configured without going into the Outfitting screen? How would you suggest doing that?

 

[coca_fr]

-1 [down] You already so much information on internet about ships. Why waste time development for that.

In the meantime with steam client you can browse website in game ! Easy to have information then...

 

[IiliI PEL IiliI]

What I mean is this....when looking on any ship it only tells you what it has fitted to it and not the number of available compartments in which you can fit things. For example, on the asp x, it'll show that you have 2 pulse lasers but not that you have an extra 4 empty slots for weapons!! The same goes for optional internal, it does not specify how many of what class slots are availble !

Yeah sure there are a few external sources to find this info out, but cmon...its abit silly that I should have to look for outside info when it should be in the game already. It can't be that hard to change.

 

[Bartizan]

I happen to agree with the OP on this and have thought this since launch. It seems a simple thing to list the available slots (whether base equipped or not) to help make some decisions. Going to out of game website for this info is kind of a lame answer.

 

[IiliI PEL IiliI]

I happen to agree with the OP on this and have thought this since launch. It seems a simple thing to list the available slots (whether base equipped or not) to help make some decisions. Going to out of game website for this info is kind of a lame answer.

Thank you. When buying a ship for a specific task I like to know, say, how many cargo slots can I equip, will I be able to have a scanner, some passenger cabins and an interdictor etc etc...people choose different roles and functions in the galaxy and knowing if a ship will fulfill that role, before we pay millions for it is a basic vital need for such a customisable option.

The very fact that we have to look outside of the game for this info is ridiculous!!

Don't get me wrong, since I started playing a month ago I haven't had a single night away from it, such is my love for the game...but there are some things that just don't sit well with me despite how brilliant it is.

 

[IiliI PEL IiliI]

Example: in game the asp x is displayed like this...

Hard points: pulse laser
Pulse laser

Utility mounts: chaff launcher
....and so on.

It doesn't tell you what spaces you can use, only what standard stuff is fitted.

Therefore, it should look like this...

Hard points: small - 1 pulse laser
small - 1 pulse laser
Small - empty
small - empty
medium - empty
Medium - empty

Utility mounts - chaff launcher
- empty
- empty
- empty

Etc etc. It just makes sense to show the features of the thing you're buying.

 

[space voyager]

Agreed, the info on ships is very scarse. Basically you have no idea what you're buying unless you get out of thd game and find the info on ships online. Yes, the info IS there yet it is bad you need to go search for it. You're not buying candy after all.

 

[metatheurgist]

I happen to agree with the OP on this and have thought this since launch.

If you've been there since launch then you'd know that they used to display ALL the information for a ship's hardpoints and modules. They changed it when they updated the display. A decision that still has me scratching me noggin, but that's not an uncommon thing with ED. Also the new display is misleading, weapons grouped with utilities, nonsense.