Asp ship kit

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI
Jackie Silver said:
The Asp is a very big target at the best of times! - but I would still buy ship kits if they changed the hitboxes, in fact, I'd prefer it if they did, just for consistency... but I can certainly see a situation where the crowd who think they're being clever exploiting this week's "meta" would, if any parts in ship kits subtracted anything from the hitbox, immediately all alter their 'Lances or Cutters or whatever they fly today to an identical slimline look. Yawn. :)
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I agree with you, personally i'd prefear they would change the hitboxes for realism too. But:
1) they promised any real money purchase wouldn't have changed a bit of a statistic and be only cosmetical
2) i can imagine the hatestorm "it's unfair, I would have won becouse i usually shot the fins, but that CMDR could remove them by paying money, it's become P2W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
 
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Major Klutz

Major Klutz
The Asp doesn't need to look good. It's practical and extremely versatile.
Not the best fighter, but it's capable. Not the best freighter, but can carry a decent amount cargo when needed.
IMO it IS the best Explorer. Yeah, the 'Conda can beat it on jump range and outfitting, but the Asp fits everything you need in a smaller package with much better visibility.

That being said, I do prefer flying the DBX.
 
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Sysmon

Sysmon
The Asp is a flying shoe, meant for a duck. Lovely ship to fly, of course. I'd grab the ship kit just for that heavy rear spoiler. Because, you know, it's a heavy rear spoiler.

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Kaocraft

Kaocraft
CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI said:
It's not possible to remove existing part of a ship, for combat issues.

The vanilla ship shape has hitboxes, and those ASP's venilla fins have an hitbox too. these are places that, if hit, cause dmg to your ship.

Ships kit are purely cosmetic, so even if they make the ship look bigger, they are "trasparent" in the sense that hits and projectiles pass through the kits without generating any dmg. In fact if a ship kit gave the ship more hitboxes nobody would have bought them. So, for balance issues, you can't really remove hitboxes (like the vanilla fins) from a ship and substitute them with "transparent" fins that don't get hit.

ASP has big fins, they can't be removed, so they must design the kits in order to envelope those, thus spoilers are generally huge.

Regarding my tastes: I never liked the ASP looks and the kit is not improving my sensation. For the best of myself I cannot sell the ASP that I used to cross the Galaxy, but I find no more uses for it. Now it's parked stripped and not engineered, like a monument (of dubius taste).
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I'd be ok with keeping the hitboxes the same and just making the vertical fins invisible. If it's OK to have components of the ship that weapons pass through harmlessly, it should also be OK to have areas of the ship which *can* be hit and register damage, but which aren't rendered, right? Now that I think about it more, though; in the case of the Asp, attacks to those fins probably shouldn't register damage to the hull anyway, given that they're vestigal and completely ornamental. (I just realized that this is partially why I would love a ship kit that *removes* the fins rather than adds to them.) Plus most of the time you're firing at a much larger hitbox anyway (the shield envelope). Anyway I say keep the hitboxes the same and you can make *purely cosmetic* additions and subtractions, resulting in either invisible areas that are vulnerable to attack, or intangible areas that attacks pass right through.
 

ShadowWolf Kell

ShadowWolf Kell
Some more of the new Asp Kit from different angles.

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[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI said:
I agree with you, personally i'd prefear they would change the hitboxes for realism too. But:
1) they promised any real money purchase wouldn't have changed a bit of a statistic and be only cosmetical
2) i can imagine the hatestorm "it's unfair, I would have won becouse i usually shot the fins, but that CMDR could remove them by paying money, it's become P2W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Well, they could change the hitbox in a way that the kit bits break off, but that won't cause any practical damage to the ship.

As for the Asp, I think it's great balancing that the most practical ship is also so damn ugly. Like if you compare a generic MPV with stylish sedans or coupes (Asp vs. an FDL)
 
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