Hmm. I heard that the Odyssey can be played without ships. Well, it will be possible to stuff the Panther Clipper with passenger cabins, put a lot of commanders in it, and take it to ...
I think it's actually multicrew seats you need rather than cabins, so really anything with a pilot and three extra chairs, able to accomodate a wing of 4 commanders would be pretty welcome. Introducing the .. to be confirmed .. Adder 4 Seater!!
That's right, the other players, but not as a team, but as passengers.
Everyone that didn't try them in Frontier First Encounters I'm sure. They were awful in that game.
There'll be a Passenger Service for players not willing to travel with their ships, much like it's now Ship Transfer, you can't load them in other than in Multicrew.
I'm actually expecting Frontier to fix the existing Corvette... upgrade its engines, sizes 1/2 hardpoints to 2/3... maybe reassign the Type7, Clipper and Orca to be medium ships... also making hardpoints on the Clipper converging.
There's a LOT to be fixed on the existing ships... give a speed boost to the Anaconda and all the Federation ships... reduce hull mass on the Cutter and Type9/10...
Believe me, the list of potential improvement points is very long!
Wait. You want to buff the Conda and Cutter?
Panther Clipper. Panther Clipper. Did I mention the Panther Clipper?
Probably why Josh Wedon produced a TV series called 'Firefly' using a ship with rotating engines.
Josh was 20 years old when Elite was released in 1984. He was 29 years old old when Frontier:
Elite II introduced him to the Panther Clipper.
Probably why Josh Wedon produced a TV series called 'Firefly' using a ship with rotating engines.
Josh was 20 years old when Elite was released in 1984. He was 29 years old old when Frontier:
Elite II introduced him to the Panther Clipper.
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An excerpt from the publication "things that never quite made it":
As early as around the year 2299, maybe even earlier, Zorgon Peterson released first design studies of what was to be come the ultimate panamax freighter in the galaxy. The announcement was incredibly well received by the wider public. But as years went by, the imagination of said public of what this ship could do or be went to wild places, and ZGP's management felt increasingly uneasy about it. Still development continued until probably at least 3302, but news became more and more sparse.
Around 3303 ZGP finally had to accept that they could never meet the specs that were circulating in the wild and quietly canned the project. Communication about it ceased completely. And while the cancellation has never been officially announced, the only new ship that came from ZGP was the Mamba in 3304.
Competitor Lakon Spaceways realized their chance and redesigned their cargo workhorse, the T9, to carry 256t more than it originally could. The smaller sibling, the T7, got a similar treatment. They even retrofitted T7 and T9 that were already flying. That may have been a large contribution to the financial troubles they found themselves in in 3306.
Meanwhile more and more of the old news bits about the Panther Clipper have vanished from the media, taken down explicitly or just forgotten. A group of space veterans, getting smaller every year, still remembers, still dreams, but a new generation of pilots is on the rise who never heard of the Panther and likely never will.
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Maybe something from zorgon. Tjst ship kind of looks like an FDL but also has some differences.
That's just the ship kit applied.
more proper answers are: "a small mamba, a mambita".
plus all the federation ships. i guess he has discussed this at length with his peers.
Panther Clipper, Imperial Explorer, Turner Class and Interplanetary Shuttle would be nice.
+1 , I'd like an Energy Bomb, please.
Energy bomb for fast combat elite leveling up.
