Military Restrictive Slots

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

So passenger restrictive slots have gone... why do we still have military ones?

Even if FDev don't want to remove them completely, can we please put SLF bays, SRV bays, or AMFUs in them?

Thoughts?

Raik

 

[Unknown Zombie]

Because military slots were additive. Ships actually gained new slots to put military hardware in.

A completely different situation from the passenger liner thing.

 

[Jukelo]

Military slots were added to allow combat ships to mount enough military hardware without letting them turn into multirole ships. You will note that the huge mistake of removing of the pax restriction allows pax ships to become very good multiroles.
If you remove the restriction, you have to remove the slot and find some other way of specializing the ships.

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

Ship launched fighters, SRVs and the AFMU are all military related though?

 

[Jukelo]

Ship launched fighters, SRVs and the AFMU are all military related though?

The SLF could clearly fit in there, but the SRV and AFMU allow a degree of multi-roling.

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

Shield generators, SLF hangers, fuel tanks and Guardian FSD boosters(because combat ships have poor jump range) should be added to military slots.

 

[S~P]

Not happening, the restrictions WILL stay and quite rightly. No God ships in elite please.

 

[SpaceScania]

No God ships in elite please.

*COUGH* Python *COUGH*

 

[Morbad]

About the only expansion of military slots that I'd really be ok with is fuel tanks, and possibly AFMUs.

I see it as internal volume that to irregularly shaped for most modules and has dimensions too narrow for cargo canisters or manned corridors. Stuff that only needs a power or fuel line and doesn't need access to any external hatches.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

*COUGH* Python *COUGH*

You’ve got something on your chin.

The Python is spectacular at being perfectly good at anything, and absolutely great at nothing. It is the very pinnacle of Multi-role. Any one thing a Python can do, a dedicated ship can do better, with the sole exception of hauling cargo to Outposts - this is the one thing you cannot beat a python for.