I expect to see three Panther Clippers trying to enter the station every time I want to leave.
Panther Clipper - What Are You Expecting?
- Thread starter shadragon
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I wish to see a real DEDICATED TRADER. A ship that has real actual rear firing only turrets. A couple of guns covering the rear, the sides and one huge at the front for the smart-donkey thinking that's a turret blind spot. A ship that is a real danger only if you give chase.
From what I read of it's size everywhere, I expect the Pantha Clipper to be the Player group Fleet Carrier.
It's the stations flocking to try dock with the Panther.
Easy to know what to expect in case of Frontier.
1. Panther releases soon (before 2020)
2. 1500 tones cargo capacity
3. Frontier balancing makes it jump max 0.91 LY unladen with grade 5 fsd from farseer
4. Players find an insanely profitable trade route inside a system, no need to jump
5. Everyone including me go there to make some quick billions
6. Frontier wont change the Panther, but nerfs the entire mission board, including material rewards (again)
7. Players go back to their cutters
8. Balance achieved
1. Panther releases soon (before 2020)
2. 1500 tones cargo capacity
3. Frontier balancing makes it jump max 0.91 LY unladen with grade 5 fsd from farseer
4. Players find an insanely profitable trade route inside a system, no need to jump
5. Everyone including me go there to make some quick billions
6. Frontier wont change the Panther, but nerfs the entire mission board, including material rewards (again)
7. Players go back to their cutters
8. Balance achieved
The first run is fine. Subsequent runs lose profit margin rapidly. Larger the ship cargo capacity, faster the prices degrade. This seems independent of supply as well. Take a system with 10,000 units on offer and another with 480,000 units. If you grab 500 units, both prices seem to degrade the same amount.
I've never recorded pricing and tried to work out the degrade per 100 ton run, for example, but that's what it feels like when doing A -> B -> A runs.
Fleet carrier should have a series of landing pads for repair, rearm, refuel where a Panther Clipper is a standard ship that can only carry SLF. So I doubt that.
How large is the T-9 compared to the mailslot?
I mean, that's the limit they have to work in and at some point the ship will be HELL to just get inside.
I mean, that's the limit they have to work in and at some point the ship will be HELL to just get inside.
Would be a nice garage for my corvette...;-)
Plenty of room to spare when flying the T9 through the mail slot.
Seconded. I think most people are just aiming for the middle of the slot, no matter which ship they're in.
Switching to the cam beforehand, actually checking where your cockpit resides in aspect to the rest of the ship definately helps.
I expect it to be released sometime in 2020+
If frontier is about to add bigger ships like this, it could open the „XL“ class. Anyways, the corvette being the „smallest warship“ opens room for larger classes inbetween the very bis ships.
Landing could be solved like in EVE - they simply cannot go through the mail slot but stay in vincinity of a large station. after activating, (un)loading will be accomplished by small drones from/to staion.
As for features, it should have at least double the clipper cargo, if not tripple.
I‘d love to have 2-4 SLF bays which can start simoultaneously together with 3 type 4 turrets as well as many smaller turrets. no gimballed or fixed allowed to prevent a uber-combat ship. should rely on fighters and turrets
Mass locked 30 or higher.
10-12 utility slots
Very slow speed, like 100 and 130 boosting.
good jump range (e.g.30+ A rated unengineered) but twice the amount of time to load the FSD, since its a massive ship
you can do it frontier!
Landing could be solved like in EVE - they simply cannot go through the mail slot but stay in vincinity of a large station. after activating, (un)loading will be accomplished by small drones from/to staion.
As for features, it should have at least double the clipper cargo, if not tripple.
I‘d love to have 2-4 SLF bays which can start simoultaneously together with 3 type 4 turrets as well as many smaller turrets. no gimballed or fixed allowed to prevent a uber-combat ship. should rely on fighters and turrets
Mass locked 30 or higher.
10-12 utility slots
Very slow speed, like 100 and 130 boosting.
good jump range (e.g.30+ A rated unengineered) but twice the amount of time to load the FSD, since its a massive ship
you can do it frontier!