My favorite ship to fly in Elite was the Thargon drone. But damn it commanders kept trying to scoop me up! So I stopped playing Open and was a solo Thargoid from then on.
You don't know how to fly the FDL, yet.
My combat Courier can jump 20+ly, is cool enough to scoop at max rate, can carry 10T of cargo, and has heatsinks that make smuggling a breeze.
It's a pretty good courier.
20ly jump, 420m/s boost, A3 scoop...close enough.
Oh dear.
Honestly it was so long ago, at the time I had a Commodore 64, pretty spiffy 486 dx 32 with massive 120 meg hard drive, Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000, I do remember playing mostly on the 486, and, not making it up, piloted other ships, not just the Cobra. If i still remember correctly the FDL had 3 or 5 military lasers on the front (after upgrades) and 2 on the back, it was the choice of most pilots back then for combat. Possibly screwed up which version I was using but did pilot the FDL.
Yeah, sorry, but your not flying the FDL correctly. Its one of the best combat ships in the game, certainly the best bounty hunter. Yes, you have to have A grade pretty much everything other than sensors and life support... A grade thrusters are mandatory to get full benefit of the FDL, you will have a boost speed of 405 and your thrusters will be extremely powerful.
Yes,it has power issues, but they can be dealt with. Yes, there are compromises you will have to make, but Ive flown combat pythons, combat anacondas, vipers, vultures, a wide gamut of combat specific ships, and the FDL stands out.
It does take time to learn how to use it to its full potential however, and I think that is why the FDL is so polarizing..
Yes,it has power issues, but they can be dealt with. Yes, there are compromises you will have to make, but Ive flown combat pythons, combat anacondas, vipers, vultures, a wide gamut of combat specific ships, and the FDL stands out.
It does take time to learn how to use it to its full potential however, and I think that is why the FDL is so polarizing..
ELITE = 1984 - No changing ships
486 = 1989
ELITE 2 - 1994 - Allows changing ships
No sign of the FDL though
First Encounter - No FDL listed as a playable ship: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/First_Encounters/Ships
This is 2015 not the 80's, things have changed a bit.
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Only in Angus Duggan's Elite-A, which wasn't an official version.
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In the Amiga version you could also fly the constrictor, it was a fairly late game ship however that you got in a mission.
Nope. None of the missions in Amiga Elite allowed you to fly the constrictor.
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Factual inaccuracies aside (the FDL was never a flyable ship in the original Elite or any other official version of Elite), I think some folk are viewing the FDL of yesteryear with rose tinted glasses.
The Cobra MkIII was superior to the FDL in classic Elite in every way. Faster. Tougher. More manoeuvrable. And Oolite (which is pretty much the only game that is a close to the original Elites as possible) recognises this, by the FDL being inferior to the Cobby MKIII in all the same ways. Pretty much the only thing the FDL had going for it compared to the Cobra Mk III was its smaller front profile.
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oooo interesting...... I am gonna stick to my guns on this one, I would say I am 99% certain I flew the constrictor.... I also thought there was a way to get a cloaking device as well.
perhaps i am wrong.....
we need an arbiter to sort this out
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oooo interesting...... I am gonna stick to my guns on this one, I would say I am 99% certain I flew the constrictor.... I also thought there was a way to get a cloaking device as well.
perhaps i am wrong.....
we need an arbiter to sort this out
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/AFE_FAQ2
In 1984? Let me think..............NONE
Unless of course you accepted the military mission and got yourself an Asp.......
No such mission. No such flyable Asp in the original Elite.
oooo interesting...... I am gonna stick to my guns on this one, I would say I am 99% certain I flew the constrictor.... I also thought there was a way to get a cloaking device as well.
perhaps i am wrong.....
we need an arbiter to sort this out
Yes there was a cloaking device and it was awesome. Ran on ship energy. The Amiga version also had an ECM jammer and a ships ID system.
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