Still no new SRV models?

Ralph Vargr · Dec 27, 2018

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Tikanderoga · Dec 27, 2018

Something hovering like the skimmer would be awesome.
Little to no shields, fast, maybe light weaponry.

5AnaHalfHatsize · Dec 27, 2018

How about, instead of a whole new SRV to carry 4t cargo we just get the option to hang a couple of bike racks off the back of the current one to hold the extra cargo pods?

I do want a hover bike though... is it too late to change my Santa list?

xxThe_Dice_manxx · Dec 27, 2018

To put bigger vehicles planet side we are gonna need bigger ships and specialised transporters to take large equipment/vehicles to the surface.

How are all these places like davs hope built? How are the building etc brought there?

Alec Turner · Dec 27, 2018

PiLhEaD said:
I'd rather we had SRV racetracks tbh.

We've got one!

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Riverside · Dec 27, 2018

Alec Turner said:
We've got one!

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Presumably with the new planetary POIs you have lots more point to point races available of almost any length.

kpmop · Dec 27, 2018

What we really need is synthesisable SRVs, although #1 - a nice manoeuvarable 4-wheeler with yaw thrusters would be nice too.

Mostly because my two attempts at the ridge race went something like this...

Though maybe I just need to practice a little more...

Alec Turner · Dec 27, 2018

kpmop said:
What we really need is synthesisable SRVs, although #1 - a nice manoeuvarable 4-wheeler with yaw thrusters would be nice too.

Mostly because my two attempts at the ridge race went something like this...

Though maybe I just need to practice a little more...

[haha] Yeah - I guarantee everyone on the leaderboard has done that ... many many times!

Re: yaw for the SRV - I have an article coming out in the January Sagittarius Eye magazine which tries to explain how to do that in the Scarab. And yes, practice practice practice.

GunnerBill · Dec 27, 2018

Alec Turner said:
Re: yaw for the SRV - I have an article coming out in the January Sagittarius Eye magazine which tries to explain how to do that in the Scarab. And yes, practice practice practice.

Lookin' forward to that Alec!

+1 in advance of the "goods"...

Maenden · Dec 27, 2018

We could do with some improvement to the existing one - like being able to access more info in turret mode, a better wavescanner, lights on the turret facing the way the turret points etc etc.

Dillon Fallon · Dec 27, 2018

xxThe_Dice_manxx said:
To put bigger vehicles planet side we are gonna need bigger ships and specialised transporters to take large equipment/vehicles to the surface.

How are all these places like davs hope built? How are the building etc brought there?

I wonder if that's the sticking point with the development of bigger srvs. We have a class 6 hanger, so that's no problem, but how to get something that big out of the cargo hatch?

Maybe new Imperial and Alliance / Independent ships for big srvs and a modification to the FDS to make the hatch bigger.

This would be a big update though, especially since the speeder bike style srv would need to be in there too.

Anyone up for an srv requiring a class 8 hanger for tank battles?

GunnerBill · Dec 27, 2018

Deejayeff145 said:
I wonder if that's the sticking point with the development of bigger srvs. We have a class 6 hanger, so that's no problem, but how to get something that big out of the cargo hatch?

Maybe new Imperial and Alliance / Independent ships for big srvs and a modification to the FDS to make the hatch bigger.

This would be a big update though, especially since the speeder bike style srv would need to be in there too.

Anyone up for an srv requiring a class 8 hanger for tank battles?

I don't really mind how this is achieved. One version is that a 2 bay hanger used for a single larger ship just has a bigger door.
The other is that the new SRV could be deployed nose or tail first. Or you could require and additional smaller slot to accompany the larger vehicle hanger.

Dillon Fallon · Dec 27, 2018

GunnerBill said:
I don't really mind how this is achieved. One version is that a 2 bay hanger used for a single larger ship just has a bigger door.
The other is that the new SRV could be deployed nose or tail first. Or you could require and additional smaller slot to accompany the larger vehicle hanger.

Agree, both nice ideas and additionally big srvs could tie in with ships with slf hangers as well.

Admittedly I'm looking at future stuff and it doesn't get away from why we don't have a racer srv, for example, which wouldn't need any new mechanics as there's no reason for this to be bigger than a Scarab. With all the new ships we have, I don't see why we don't have one more srv since these were implemented.

I'm sure a new srv would have been better received than one of the Chieftain clones.

IndigoWyrd · Dec 27, 2018

insanephoton said:
Reminds me a little of Big Trak

or worse the M22 Locust

I still have a working Big Trak. Make toys great again!

verminstar · Dec 27, 2018

More SRV choices? How very dare ye lot...what ye think this is? NMS?

Seriously though, would be cool to see more variants and especially cool to see npc using them...always wondered why they dont seems...odd. That being said, there needs to be a need beyond simply wanting more choice...more for them to do and currently, there doesnt appear to be a specific need just a desire.

Was a time I would have liked to see an SLF/SRV variant, possibly capable of hovering like a skimmer and as such, be able to go places a standard SRV struggles to reach.

Then the brain kicks in and asks how exactly skimmers hover in space and the argument goes off on the immursion tangeant.

Myou · Dec 27, 2018

verminstar said:
Then the brain kicks in and asks how exactly skimmers hover in space and the argument goes off on the immursion tangeant.

I mean you have gravity on those planets, all you need is just sufficently strong enough thrust to counteract it. A hover like we have irl wouldnt work cause they cant exactly suck and blow air on nonathmospheric planets but a good ol set of thrusters works fine.

Alec Turner · Dec 27, 2018

Myou said:
I mean you have gravity on those planets, all you need is just sufficently strong enough thrust to counteract it. A hover like we have irl wouldnt work cause they cant exactly suck and blow air on nonathmospheric planets but a good ol set of thrusters works fine.

You're right. We automatically assume those things use fans (which wouldn't work on airless worlds) but now I look again ... yeah, something's coming out of the bottom of those things ... some kind of super heated unexplainoranium plasma I reckon!

verminstar · Dec 27, 2018

Alec Turner said:
You're right. We automatically assume those things use fans (which wouldn't work on airless worlds) but now I look again ... yeah, something's coming out of the bottom of those things ... some kind of super heated unexplainoranium plasma I reckon!

That sure iks a big exhaust port...mind tilting the camera up a little so we can see whats turning in that exhaust port as its currently and conveniently obscuring that minor little detail ^

Alec Turner · Dec 27, 2018

verminstar said:
That sure iks a big exhaust port...mind tilting the camera up a little so we can see whats turning in that exhaust port as its currently and conveniently obscuring that minor little detail ^

Not mine but ...

Yup, just as I expected - it's conjuring thrust out of ~~thin~~ no air. Amazing stuff that unexplainoranium!

GJ51 · Dec 27, 2018

FD sees no reason for more SRV models as there isn't enough PvP taking place on planet surfaces yet.

As soon as there's sufficient interest in SRV PvP, we will get new models/engineering/weapons/etc for continuous multiple update cycles.