New ship: Panther Clipper

[Rock Hunter]

I never use the autodocking computer. It will be interesting to see how difficult it will be to land. Or even enter the mail slot.

I assumed this was why people were requesting it came with whiskers. A little help finding the edges.

 

[Doctor Dread]

Looking at my "not in the next system" trade Cutter build, it can shift 688t of cargo c.200 LY without refuelling (five jumps); 40.35LY fully laden, with the return (no cargo) taking only 4 jumps. Put differently it's c.76t of cargo delivered "per jump" in the round trip.

If the cargo / (jumps per round trip) metric for the Panther Clipper Mk II is below that then it would be a less attractive option for middle distance trade. In the completely speculative estimate I posted earlier the 2000t of cargo would take 8 jumps out and 5 jumps back, so the metric would be 154t per jump. Also noting that the fully laden example would be able to do 13 jumps without refuelling, a total of c.340LY.

Which leads me to suspect that my 2,000t cargo capacity guess is a bit on the high side.

Yesterday's patch brought in the new take on your calculations (correct so far). It turned out that I've managed to make a fully functional and mega-productive Refinery with 20-30K of steel 'n all. And it happened in a large system, where I need to build weeks and weeks... now it's inside the system. The jump doesn't matter one bit.

And it's easily achievable. Two Refinery hubs on HMC and a Coriolis above.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Have you done this on a T10 or a Beluga?

Yes, FA off. If it physically fits, it'll be doable.

 

[Koma Pahu]

Have you done this on a T10 or a Beluga?

The T10 isn’t that difficult from memory, the Beluga can be a pain because of the tail. - I didn’t fly one long enough to get used to it.

 

[Kamiyoda]

The T10 isn’t that difficult from memory, the Beluga can be a pain because of the tail. - I didn’t fly one long enough to get used to it.

I used to fly a Beluga a lot in my PS4 days, really none of the large ships are all that hard to dock once you get a feel for "where" the ship is so to speak.

Edit: Like with the Beluga, you want to go in low, a lot of people go in high but like you said the fins with get stuck, and you can get surprising close with how low the bridge is.

Or just deploy the landing gear as that makes the fins fold down

 

[Rat Catcher]

Have you done this on a T10 or a Beluga?

Yes to both, normally with Silent running on as I sometimes carry things I don't want scanned...
Both are easy to fly, dock with the computer a couple of times and the positioning for mail slot entry / egress is memorised.

 

[Shurimal]

And it's easily achievable. Two Refinery hubs on HMC and a Coriolis above.

Not if the system you managed to get your paws on in a region you wanted to have a system in only has icy worlds

 

[Bigmaec]

MOD HAT WELL AND TRULY ON

It truly baffles me that people still think it's OK to go onto a game company's official forum, and post information obtained by hacking into the game files...

It's against forum rules, and the game's EULA. Just because "someone else did it" doesn't make it OK to spread it!


Also, let's not forget the most recent video doing the rounds saying it was going to be a medium ship because of datamined information, and how spectacularly wrong that was. If it's not official information, it doesn't belong here.

But ... but this time it's special

 

[BL1P]

Looks like 4 massive cargo pods down the center. Maybe 4xclass 9 cargo Racks at 512 x 4 for 2048 cargo cap ?
or
4 Class 10s @ 1024 for 4096

 

[Bigmaec]

Looks like 4 massive cargo pods down the center. Maybe 4xclass 9 cargo Racks at 512 x 4 for 2048 cargo cap ?

Don't get your hopes too high.

 

[Kamiyoda]

Don't get your hopes too high.

My hopes are well and truely mass locked

 

[Jaffz]

Same here, at 2000t or more I buy it in ARX, less than 2000, I'll wait until it's available with credits.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Anything over 1000t is going to be a near 50% increase on what we can carry now. I'd be (happily) surprised if we see >1500t.

 

[Bigmaec]

My hopes are well and truely mass locked

Factor 7?

 

[S0rkvild]

mass lock factor 10

 

[Rat Catcher]

Factor 7?

Factor 65 as it needs a lot of UV protection for how long it takes to fuel scoop!

 

[Frankymole]

Brother Sab on his stream reckoned about twice the Type 9 Heavy capacity (as it's about twice the length), so 790 x 2, say 1600 tons cargo capacity allowing for the fact it's all one "hold" not two hulls joined together

 

[Bigmaec]

Brother Sab on his stream reckoned about twice the Type 9 Heavy capacity (as it's about twice the length), so 790 x 2, say 1600 tons cargo capacity allowing for the fact it's all one "hold" not two hulls joined together

And we all know this is not how ships in Elite work

 

[Kamiyoda]

Factor 7?

What am I, a Corsair?!

How dare you good sir!

 

[Frankymole]

From the old thread:

Well, as Buur pointed out in the Buur Pit video yesterday, there are already other ships with a bridge. It doesn't mean we can walk around on them.