You know what else is 100% not fair?
Life.
Life.
Class 7 FSD for Federal Corvette
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Funny, mine goes 30 LY in a full combat fit.
I guess that's what guardian frame shift drive boosters were invented for
All this.
The Corvette is a battleship essentially. Most purebred combat ships have pants jump range.
It's something I've come to accept, by not flying them. Lol
Anaconda FTW!
With a guardian FSD booster of course.
My only problem is that you'd also need to do something similar to the Cutter and 'Conda and possibly the T-10 to make them viable alternatives and I've always thought the lack of speed was a fair trade off for the manoeuvrability of a ship of this size. Also, based on the damage my Corvette is capable of, 2 c3 hardpoints with the 2 c4s seems overpowered to me.
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hahahahahahahaha
Wait, you're serious? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Just going to point out that the Corvette costs less than the Cutter (~10% less). As for the firepower, the vette has MORE firepower and 'better' hardpoint locations. I'm not sure where you got these stats from, but they don't check out.
Now as for your other claims:
Yes, the cutter is the "best" trade ship in the game. It has a combination of large amounts of cargo and stupidly OP shields that no other ship can beat. The Type-9 can beat in in shielded cargo capacity, but the Cutter still has the stupidly strong shields and better jump range. When it comes to surviving an interdiction, the Cutter is EXTREMELY strong. It can out tank every ship that can keep up with it, and outrun every other ship that stands a reasonable chance of doing any damage to it. Even faced with a ship that is capable of doing damage and keeping up with it, the Cutter can just low wake since it can't be mass locked.
Yes, the Cutter mass locks the Corvette. The Cutter masslocks everything (with the exception of thargoid interceptors). This is one of the reasons why the cutter is so strong in interdiction scenarios.
Yes, the Cutter is faster than the Corvette. However, the Corvette doesn't take the better part of 5km to slow down, and is actually capable of changing direction in a timely manner.
Yes, the Cutter can fit a Class 8 shield (remember the stupidly OP shields I mentioned earlier?) with a Class 8 SCB. What the Corvette offers in return is a Size 7 shield with a PAIR of size 7 SCBs (you can get more shield regen out of a pair of size 7 SCBs than a single size 8).
Yes, the Cutter gets better FSD range than the Corvette. The cutter has one of the best jump ranges in the game for any ship that does not have an abnormally low hull mass or is not a dedicated passenger/exploration ship. The only thing that would change that would be a nerf to the cutter (either more hull mass or a size 6 FSD).
Personally, I don't like the Cutter. Yeah, it is a great ship and all, but I prefer to fly ships that require me to use my brain. Could I replace my Type 9 with a cutter? Definitely. Would it be an upgrade? Absolutely. Will I do it? Probably not. The main features of the Cutter (high speed, strong shields) are the very things that keep turning me away from it. The features make the ship all but unkillable in PvE, and extremely difficult to kill in PvP. The skill cap required to fly a Cutter is significantly lower than the skill cap required to fly literally about any other ship to the point where a person could fly it with only one hand and still be perfectly fine (there's a reason Yammiks calls his Cutter the "W__k Tank").
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If you got rid of the ventral large hardpoint and increased the size of the mediums and smalls, you'd end up with a MASSIVE blind spot on the bottom of the ship. If this happened, a noob in a Corvette would inevitably get poked to death by a freewinder sitting in their blind spot. Said noob would the run to the forums and whine about how "The Corvette is trash!!!1!!one!!" and that Corvette should just destroy every ship in the system by its mere presence.....
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If the Op took the time to make multiple topics about Class 7 FSD For Corvette and Rank 7 FSD for Federal Corvette You have the time to get the guardian module and you need to engineer the FSD booster.
Yes.
Unfortunatly (for you) I am serious.
But I see you are still young so let me give you a task: take paper and pen and count the damage of the same weapo on all hardpoint.
If you'll do that you'll get 121 for cutter and 119 for vette if memory serves me well.
Considering that on cutter you can have 4 efficient beam turret (wich strike 100 all the time) and 1 hardpoint on the vette useless (it's original loadout was 2h 3l 2m) and you'll discover that I am not the one making wrong statement here.
That's enough.
An idiotic loadout.
Fixed weapons on a beached tug boat will strike a cutter 100% of the time.
Wrong.
Vette:
2H/1L/2M/2S
Cutter:
1H/2L/4M
I don't know how you calculate points based on available HP slots, but I think the Vette has more DPS by default.
I can't be the only one who thinks the Cutter could use a C8 PD, right? Maybe?
Define need. By definition of the minimum workable there are several ships well overprovisioned and the weapons draw for the cutter with a similar loadout is comparable to it's peers. So what is your criteria here?
All this.
The Corvette is a battleship essentially. Most purebred combat ships have pants jump range.
It's something I've come to accept, by not flying them. Lol
Anaconda FTW!
With a guardian FSD booster of course.
No it isn't. The Corvette doesn't have any significant combat advantage over the others. It does roughly the same DPS and has similar or less defense/speed. The oft vaunted "agility" is only a hair above the Anaconda.
In short, there is no reason for it to require a Guardian FSD booster to get the identical combat jump range as another Big 4 ship without an FSS booster.
I can't say I feel the same way. It's the difference between my favorite ship and the ship I sold.
The cutter needs the class 7 so it can go further to deliver the cargo, being my go to cargo frieghter. As for the vette....it doesn't really seem to be sold as a jumping ship.
Also when the logic behind balance becomes making things equal the game will lose out. It will become a boring place fast.
The cutter doesn't need a larger distributor because it excels in it's niches (moving lots of stuff, relatively far, relatively fast, without being shot down) already and balance would be harmed by making it more competitive in another. A larger distributor would also be somewhat wasted on the Cutter.
On top of that the Cutter is significantly heavier than the Corvette.
