Imperial Variants

Hi all, I'd like to see some variants released for Imperial ships, or at least 1 new ship, that fits on medium pads.

I propose a variant Clipper, with a more militant purpose, designed to act as a light carrier, with a fighter bay, perhaps whilst granting the basic clipper the ability to act as a liner (with luxury cabins)
or, allow the current clipper to carry fighters and make a luxury liner variant. I'd suggest upgrading the existing Clipper the freedom to do both, but that'd probably make the one ship just too good.

Alternatively, I'd like to see an Imperial ship that fits on the medium landing pad. Perhaps with retracting engine nacelles. I've suggested in the past making such a ship a Clipper variant, but now I think it's better to go with an entirely new architecture, with lines that find the middle-ground between Courier and Clipper. Slender, conical nose, but side by side seating. I wouldn't suggest too much armament, 3 or 4 class 2 weapons, or 2 class 2 and 1 class 3. Internals most similar to the Asp X.

Finally, I'd like to see a slightly smaller, short-body variant of the Cutter, built for exploration, having the shorter fuselage shown in the concept art, and the simplified engine arrangement, but at the cost of it's class 4 hardpoint (moving one of it's class 3 hardpoints to the belly) Better lateral thrusters allow it to land in high-g worlds, but agility is a secondary quality. Optional internal space would be most similar to a type 9. Properly fitted, it would have greatest jump range in the game, but would be expensive.
 
I don't want to suggest one ship that does it all.

What I do want to see is the Clipper have a luxury transport role.
I do want to see an Imperial medium landing pad ship, a little smaller than an Asp X in internal space. I'm not asking that this be the same as the above.
I also want to see an Imperial ship at medium or Clipper size that can carry a fighter. Right now it's Keelback, then Cutter for Imperial players. Again, not necessarily the same ship as above.
I'm a lot less attached to this last one, but I want to see a late-game exploration ship that is the spiritual successor to the Imperial Explorer from earlier games. I had hoped the Cutter could do the job, but it can't out-compete the OP Annie. Thus I propose a dedicated late-game explorer.
 
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Anaconda is Multi-role. I'm suggesting something more dedicated to exploration.

Doesn't change the fact that the Anaconda is the single best exploration ship. :)

In terms of trading it's second to the Cutter and in terms of Combat it's second (or third, depends) to the Corvette.
 
What I'd like to see is more variation on some of the existing ships based upon their point of origin. So a Cobra Mk 3 bought on an Alliance station would look slightly different to one bought on an Empire station, and so on.
 
What I'd like to see is more variation on some of the existing ships based upon their point of origin. So a Cobra Mk 3 bought on an Alliance station would look slightly different to one bought on an Empire station, and so on.

Nice but overly complicated.
 
Doesn't change the fact that the Anaconda is the single best exploration ship. :)

In terms of trading it's second to the Cutter and in terms of Combat it's second (or third, depends) to the Corvette.

Imperial paintjob for the Conda would be nice. Right now I'm flying it with the black friday, but a snow white Anaconda might be quite a sight :D Actually wouldn't mind Imperial paintjobs for the other ships, like the one we have for the Asp. Can just don the white apollo, complete with blue stripes to show my allegiance. Would love to do that in a Python or Keelback.
 
Imperial paintjob for the Conda would be nice. Right now I'm flying it with the black friday, but a snow white Anaconda might be quite a sight :D Actually wouldn't mind Imperial paintjobs for the other ships, like the one we have for the Asp. Can just don the white apollo, complete with blue stripes to show my allegiance. Would love to do that in a Python or Keelback.

To be fair, the tactical ice job is the tiniest shade off the imp ships. A clipper can put it on and you don't know the difference unless you're actually sitting in outfitting swapping between them and watching the shade creep across the ship.
 
Imperial paintjob for the Conda would be nice. Right now I'm flying it with the black friday, but a snow white Anaconda might be quite a sight :D Actually wouldn't mind Imperial paintjobs for the other ships, like the one we have for the Asp. Can just don the white apollo, complete with blue stripes to show my allegiance. Would love to do that in a Python or Keelback.

I'd be nice to have fed and imp paint jobs yeah :D But not for rank locked ships of the other faction ofc :D
 
To be fair, the tactical ice job is the tiniest shade off the imp ships. A clipper can put it on and you don't know the difference unless you're actually sitting in outfitting swapping between them and watching the shade creep across the ship.

Yeah, I guess I could get tactical ice for the Conda. But it would be missing the blue :)

I'd be nice to have fed and imp paint jobs yeah :D But not for rank locked ships of the other faction ofc :D

You mean like the bug with the Black Friday that rendered the Dropship snow white? xD

Anyway, since I went a bit OT, something for the main topic as well. I think the Clipper is actually not "big" enough to warrant a fighter bay. I could see Luxury suits on it, but not fighter support. It's more akin to the old Imperial Trader then a warship. And honestly, instead of the Empire making a ship (and lock it behind imp progression) to correlate with universal ships, I'd rather have Gutamaya tweak existing ships, if anything. And honestly, if they would produce many types of ships, the actual flair and stand out point of the four imperial ships we have would diminish. (Okay, technically three, since the iEagle is just a body kit for a Core Dynamics Eagle).
 
I do think imperial variants of all ships would be nice, like the imperial eagle.

Never will happen, but it would be nice.

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I do think imperial variants of all ships would be nice, like the imperial eagle.

Never will happen, but it would be nice.

Imagine a federal vulture. o_O. Oh my.
 
I do think imperial variants of all ships would be nice, like the imperial eagle.

Never will happen, but it would be nice.

That could be an idea for ship kits, giving a more federal / imperial / alliancy (whatever that looks like) vibe to existing 'faction agnostic' ships. That may be even less likely to happen though.
 
I posted this months ago. The 'original' Imperial Courier was much bigger than the E:D implementation and I hate the boring Lakon ships (except for the awesome looking Taipan) so would love an proper Asp upgrade in terms of jump range but, uses a medium pad, something akin to a Python for versatility but less armaments and that sweet Gutamaya styling.

That said FFE's Imp Explorer was FUGLY (and had no jump range), don't copy that!
 
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