It's hull and bulkheads are about 5% more expensive than the FDL and most of the modules are identical.
Are you sure you aren't looking at a standard priced FDL and a discount Mamba?
What's The Mamba's niche?
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It's hull and bulkheads are about 5% more expensive than the FDL and most of the modules are identical.
Are you sure you aren't looking at a standard priced FDL and a discount Mamba?
To allay the mass confusion stock FDL is 51 million. Stock Mamba 56 million.
The Mamba can indeed do this.
Ooh, I guess then it's like a mackintosh, less functional but more expensive.
Thanks. Between that and the rumored permaboost Mamba may well become the troll ship of choice.
Time between boosts is long but it does go fast.
I fly Krait against Goids with perma boost, but my iCourier against humans lacks this feature. As long as that ENG cap has some charge in it, we are all good.
Mamba does not have the unique permanoost timing of the Krait.
What's the off set with 2 pips, and charge enhanced PD, in seconds, if possible?
Edited to 2 pips because I think its my standard Krait Eng setting.
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No time right now but basically you could easily do two boosts in a Krait between Mamba boosts.
Thanks.
As it looks like a Ferrari of the space, you can use it the weekends to flirt with the girls.
Well, I had a bit of time on my hands this weekend so I finally did just that, and even expanded my researches to all the more popular medium sized ships and more.
I posted a thread in the Ships section of the forum where you can find a spreadsheet and all my results.
There : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/459813-Thrusters-Performances-Spreadsheet-or-what-the-Mamba-does-best-(and-others)?p=7187533#post7187533
And yes! As it turned out, the Challenger is indeed a unique ship in its own way, the only medium sized ship that can brake from 100% to 0 in 10 seconds, and achieve max lateral/vertical speed in 10 seconds also. The Chieftain is also very good in terms of thrusters performances (even better overall, considering it's faster).
The Mamba can boost every ~6.5 seconds (noticeably less often than the Kraits' five seconds) as long as you have juice in the cap (and 1.5 pips with an A6 charge enhanced 5 super conduit PD is enough to boost essentially indefinitely).
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Lol - well they are definitely more expensive, but I'm going to object to 'less functional'. ED (and in vr) runs pretty well on my 2009 mac pro (bootcamped, of course)...but still
Get a life dude. Just buy the thing, contribute to the thread or don't buy one and take your salt elsewhere. Sick of hearing Fdl comparisons. It's like Apple and android all over again.
I'm pretty sure he's made a decision by himself in the 12 months since posting that.
'round these parts, you can never be sure. Now, if there was a graph....
But the Mamba's niche? It's to be put on display, as the showpiece of exotic performance engineering it is. Some day it gets sold to a new owner, with less than 50 light years on it. Other than that, it's a Fer de Lance, with the hard points upside down.