Finally! A Clipper! Now what?
- Thread starter DukeIronHand
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Traditionally, now you complain that the game sucks and there's nothing to do.
Sorry Cmdr.
"ED sux!! Need MOAR...uh...something?"
On a more serious note just bought it at a LYR port I stumbled across on my way back to the bubble.
Unfortunately this port (actually a surface installation) absolutely blows for outfitting but my favorite Lakon shipyard is one jump away and it is usually well stocked. Like to find some carpet to cover up those white panels in the cockpit but perhaps the ship bay lights made them seem brighter then they really are. Good view though.
Went with the Military Skin Pack and even bought the Imperial nameplates for proper basking.
Getting ready to fire up ED and fly it for the first time.
Okay got her all fitted out (A-rate where necessary) and so far so good.
Engine sounds are certainly unique and she handles well. Now that I have A-rated Thrusters I look forward to putting her thru her paces.
My only slight qualm is the cockpit. Great view but the design and colors make me feel like I should style my hair and wear tight leather pants when I fly. It's even shiny! More used to the workman Lakon cockpits but I'll get this basking stuff down yet.
Engine sounds are certainly unique and she handles well. Now that I have A-rated Thrusters I look forward to putting her thru her paces.
My only slight qualm is the cockpit. Great view but the design and colors make me feel like I should style my hair and wear tight leather pants when I fly. It's even shiny! More used to the workman Lakon cockpits but I'll get this basking stuff down yet.
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I know your pain, to some extent. As I made getting one a major goal, and I loved doing missions, I was able to get one when I was - asset wise - just beyond my multi-mission AspX. The clipper was fun, and carried a lot of cargo, but with the large pad restriction, it was a bummer. Once you have a Python (let alone an Anaconda), there really isn't anything you "need" it for.
That being said, I've outfitted mine to do in Bubble exploring (planetary discover/landing for engineering mats), then I outfitted it for piracy (to interdict/hunt down freighters in anarchy systems for engineering mats). Currently mine is outfitted with everything necessary to interdict "friendly" power play factions and steal their cargo without killing them, but has not actually been used yet.
I occasionally take mine out for joy rides, but that's about it.
My Corvette/Anaconda get the most use (multi-mission/combat), followed by my Python (multi-mission go everywhere extravaganza during weekends), and my new FDL (new, fun combat ship). And my new DBX I use for roaming around the bubble. My clipper just sits in the hangar most of the time, along with a whole lot of other ships.I've heard they make nice/expendable PvP ships. Can't speak to that other than the youtube videos I've seen.
I use mine for mostly Powerplay, but I also use it for PvP and bounty hunting.
I know your pain, to some extent. As I made getting one a major goal, and I loved doing missions, I was able to get one when I was - asset wise - just beyond my multi-mission AspX. The clipper was fun, and carried a lot of cargo, but with the large pad restriction, it was a bummer. Once you have a Python (let alone an Anaconda), there really isn't anything you "need" it for.
That being said, I've outfitted mine to do in Bubble exploring (planetary discover/landing for engineering mats), then I outfitted it for piracy (to interdict/hunt down freighters in anarchy systems for engineering mats). Currently mine is outfitted with everything necessary to interdict "friendly" power play factions and steal their cargo without killing them, but has not actually been used yet.
I occasionally take mine out for joy rides, but that's about it.
I've heard they make nice/expendable PvP ships. Can't speak to that other than the youtube videos I've seen.
Yessir you are exactly correct.
For me, by the time I got the rank for it, I had (at least available) every non-faction ship in the game and the money to buy it.
I have ships that can do almost anything but the Clipper has three things going for it:
1) It hauls 230t of cargo way faster then my A-rated Python though it goes on medium pads and hauls 272t.
2) After two years of waiting I at least had to try the damn thing.
3) The speed and cargo load will surely come in handy either vs pirates or Thargoids. I hope.
And besides it it will be a long, long time before I see a Cutter and I had to bask at least once.
Posing and terrifying myself by throwing it around canyons sideways whilst boosting at 575. Literally that and nothing else; as you say there is nothing I can do in it that I can't do more efficiently in my Python.
The positioning of the Clipper within the ship hierarchy has always baffled me. The main selling points it has over similar ships are outrageous speed for a big ship and the fact it's dirt cheap for its size but there are so few things you can do in-game where raw speed is really much of an asset and by the time you've hit the rank to buy one, you're unlikely to be in a situation where the fact the basic ship is about 22m is going to be any kind of selling point.
Plus if you're looking at using it for combat, A-rating it doesn't work out much cheaper than a Python and with the Python you get a third class 3 weapon plus incomparably better convergence; OK I'm sure that for pvp the ability to stick a class 7 shield and class 6 SCBs on the Clipper is a more useful attribute but for PVE I'd take the fifth weapon the Python has any day, not to mention being able to land on medium pads.
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The only use I've found for a clipper is making a nice boom when I snipe out the PP with my python's cannons
Bill
A Python would never even catch a Player-flown Clipper. And if it would, the Python would go boom, as the Clipper would stay on the Python's Six. Also, the Python is plain boring, while the Clipper is a fun to fly dog-fighter in a capable pilot's hands.
Now you need to buy yourself a paint job for it. Alas, I feel the paint jobs currently available don't do the sleek lines justice.
Make it ultra heavy, point at target, boost, SMACK.
Run away if it goes knockers up. Its fast.
Run away if it goes knockers up. Its fast.
Engineers made Clippers worthless. They used to be a souped up T7, with all the speed in the world to slip past pirates, or thought the mailslot with modules powered down.
Now any ship can rock G5 thrusters, and the Clipper has lost its only claim to fame. Sure it's "faster" relatively speaking, but until the game's NPCs start flying engineered all the time it doesn't matter. Also, I think Frontier nerfed A.I. awhile back so really the Clipper just doesn't have a niche other than looking pretty.
Now any ship can rock G5 thrusters, and the Clipper has lost its only claim to fame. Sure it's "faster" relatively speaking, but until the game's NPCs start flying engineered all the time it doesn't matter. Also, I think Frontier nerfed A.I. awhile back so really the Clipper just doesn't have a niche other than looking pretty.
This is sadly true. Clippers gained very little from engineers, sure you can make them even faster and more maneuverable, but there's no way to make them fit on a medium pad, fix their poor hardpoint placement or improve their vertical/lateral thrusters, they didn't even get any military slots. Still my favourite ship though.
Went with the Military Pack.
The "Marine Blue" looks pretty slick.
Wish the outside color transfered over to the cockpit!