Imperial Eagle - Will it count as a ship?

[Krait_79]

The Eagle MK III, which the Imperial Eagle is based on, IS a classical Elite ship. It appeared in Elite II: Frontier and in Frontier: First Encounters. Those are both very old game classics.

I mean specifically the 84 ships.

 

[PotatoOverdose]

The only ships flown more than the Eagle are the Sidewinder, Cobra, Viper, Vulture, and Asp and that's with the Eagle's wonderful combination of slow, weak, and fragile.

This new Eagle will probably fix most of the slow, and half of the weak...which means it could easily be a very popular ship, if priced correctly. It could be the new Viper for people that don't like the Viper's slow pitch rate or who can figure out how to leverage the Viper's thrusters...weaker and more fragile, but probably similar speed and more agility.

Yeah, but no one stays in the sidewinder. The reason that "Looking at ships, 27 percent fly the starting Sidewinder with various loadouts" is probably because 27% of players fly around the game, decide it isn't for them, and move on. No one stays in a sidewinder any more than they stay in an eagle.

Both are ships you get out of asap and move on to better things. So yeah, don't really get the need for a second eagle... or a "second viper", but w/e.