Frontier, can we PLEASE have a new Exploration ship now?

[Morbad]

I think an exploration ship needs two power plant slots to enable power plant repair in the black. Either split the current slot to hold two half size reactors or allow an optional internals slot to hold a new “auxiliary” generator module capable or powering an AFMU during power plant repairs.

I'm all for optional internals being allowed to hold redundant systems.

 

[pnellesen]

I think an exploration ship needs two power plant slots to enable power plant repair in the black. Either split the current slot to hold two half size reactors or allow an optional internals slot to hold a new “auxiliary” generator module capable or powering an AFMU during power plant repairs.

In addition to this, (more choices are almost always better than fewer, imho), possibly have a new self-powered AFMUs. They could be more expensive than the existing AFMUs due to their increased capablilities if desired (maybe twice the cost of "normal" AFMUs)

 

[Sylveria]

Frontier has opted for the "easy" way out here. It's quite simple- to make all ships "exploration" capable.

It's an ingenious plan- because now that no ship has a "role", anyone can use any ship they like to "explore".

No more reason to invent an "exploration" ship... now you can simply equip any ship, however you like, and explore the Universe.

Fantastic!

 

[Darth Ender]

Frontier has opted for the "easy" way out here. It's quite simple- to make all ships "exploration" capable.

It's an ingenious plan- because now that no ship has a "role", anyone can use any ship they like to "explore".

No more reason to invent an "exploration" ship... now you can simply equip any ship, however you like, and explore the Universe.

Fantastic!

That's because for ships to have a role and still be used, the roles have to be something that players want to participate in. They dont have that kind of gameplay content. So everyone plays in the same 3-4 ships for everything and just re-outfits (outfitting being the other thing that breaks ship balance roles).

In the end, the game must be able to support roles for you to make your ships have specific roles. The evidence is that it does not. Rather than fix the problem, they're just eliminating some of the symptoms.