Big Elite Streamers Giving Up On Streaming Elite?

[[VR] James Constantine]

That's exactly how i feel too. Specially after they giftem them the Boxes. They should probably return them...

Are you suggesting that their content should be contingent on receiving benefits from FDev?

Nice. Just with Elite, or would you recommend the use of bribery in general?

 

[[VR] James Constantine]

That may be true for some, but for me the best part of the game is that early phase where you're just about scraping a living as a pilot for hire, lusting over pictures of the Python and Anaconda pinned to the inside of your Cobra cockpit. As an endless game there is no destination, so relax and enjoy the journey.

Ahh, that magical time before you actually get a Python and realize it maneuvers like a beached whale.

 

[Several Puffins]

Ahh, that magical time before you actually get a Python and realize it maneuvers like a beached whale.

Krait II all the way.

 

[angusmadmac1]

Nah Python there are few advantages to the krait , but the handling differences are minor . ( Says the man with 4 pythons and no krait )

 

[MishaTX]

Nah Python there are few advantages to the krait , but the handling differences are minor . ( Says the man with 4 pythons and no krait )

Minor, to be sure, but they're there. What I really like about the Krait though is the near-infini-boost with one pip to engines and full infini-boost with two. Couple that with some solidly engineered biweaves and staying in the fight will never be a worry. Well, almost never

Edit: Oh, and the Krait doesn't have that annoying large hardpoint beneath the nose that always refuses to fire when I absolutely need it to.

 

[Several Puffins]

Nah Python there are few advantages to the krait , but the handling differences are minor . ( Says the man with 4 pythons and no krait )

Nah, the krait can dance behind a vulture in a high CZ for long enough. If you need a medium pad trader, the python is king. For everything else, Krait>Python!

 

[Several Puffins]

and the Krait doesn't have that annoying large hardpoint beneath the nose that always refuses to fire when I absolutely need it to.

The 3 large hardpoints are well placed on the Krait. It's a joy with plasma accelerators.

 

[Several Puffins]

the near-infini-boost with one pip to engines and full infini-boost with

One of the lovely things with the Krait boost is that the infiniboost couples with individual boosts not lasting so long. It gives you a well-controlled edge rather than catapulting you across the battlefield.

 

[MishaTX]

I hasten to add, lest somebody might think that I'm just slagging on the Python: I'm not. It's a fine ship indeed and I've had many memorable hours behind the stick in mine (and I'm never, ever going to sell her, unlike that space whale 'Conda that I sold about an hour after I bought it). The Python is a great mission runner/hauler (because she can land EVERYWHERE) and, to me, the perfect mining ship because she has enough cargo capacity to make it worth a trip to a ring, but not so much that I get bored to tears before I'm full. Perfect balance, in my ever so humble opinion, and a ship that every CMDR should have at least one of.

 

[Several Puffins]

I hasten to add, lest somebody might think that I'm just slagging on the Python: I'm not. It's a fine ship indeed and I've had many memorable hours behind the stick in mine (and I'm never, ever going to sell her, unlike that space whale 'Conda that I sold about an hour after I bought it). The Python is a great mission runner/hauler (because she can land EVERYWHERE) and, to me, the perfect mining ship because she has enough cargo capacity to make it worth a trip to a ring, but not so much that I get bored to tears before I'm full. Perfect balance, in my ever so humble opinion, and a ship that every CMDR should have at least one of.

The Anaconda is the only ship I never fly that I haven't just sold. I feel like I should be able to do something with it, but everything I have tried has been a chore.

 

[angusmadmac1]

It's all relative I hated the Annie with a vengeance . I had most of my ranks and money before the Krait was a thing . But it's all down to the commander .

 

[thelion]

The Anaconda is the only ship I never fly that I haven't just sold. I feel like I should be able to do something with it, but everything I have tried has been a chore.

My Anaconda is in mothballs just gathering dust.

I bought it, tried it for a month or so and really could not find any practicable use for it, what what

 

[[VR] James Constantine]

The Anaconda is the only ship I never fly that I haven't just sold. I feel like I should be able to do something with it, but everything I have tried has been a chore.

Long distance travel? Highest engineered jump range in the game and reasonable heat management for scooping.

 

[MishaTX]

It's all relative I hated the Annie with a vengeance . I had most of my ranks and money before the Krait was a thing . But it's all down to the commander .

It's like we say with firearms over here when asked which one somebody should buy: "It doesn't matter what I recommend, what matters is what feels good, comfortable and, most of all, FUN to you."

 

[MishaTX]

Long distance travel? Highest engineered jump range in the game and reasonable heat management for scooping.

You're not wrong about jump range, absolutely not.

What turned me off was that it's really not much better than the AspX in that respect (although it is better, numbers don't lie, just not enough to make a huge diff for me), and it's hell to find a good landing spot for it plus, well, it maneuvers like a whale which, granted, is only an issue when supercruising to interesting planets, but still.

 

[Salonica]

The Anaconda is the only ship I never fly that I haven't just sold. I feel like I should be able to do something with it, but everything I have tried has been a chore.

You're using it wrong

It's my goto combat ship.

 

[Several Puffins]

Long distance travel? Highest engineered jump range in the game and reasonable heat management for scooping.

It's a right Ever Given in SC, though, which makes DbX/AspX quicker scoopers/neutron jumpers (and they're both cool enough to start a jump from fully inside the corona). I think the double-engineered class 5 FSD puts them ahead on jump range again too, possibly? Could be wrong there.

 

[Several Puffins]

You're using it wrong

It's my goto combat ship.

It's no corvette, much preferable as a large combat ship!

 

[[VR] James Constantine]

My Anaconda is in mothballs just gathering dust.

The Anaconda, rather than the Mamba, is ED's equivalent of the Porsche you buy when you've reached your mid-forties and have realized this is as good as it gets.

 

[Several Puffins]

It's like we say with firearms over here when asked which one somebody should buy: "It doesn't matter what I recommend, what matters is what feels good, comfortable and, most of all, FUN to you."

And that's why I stick to throwing fruit.