The front end of this ship is already over represented in the game and the Quad thruster bodies show a distinct lack of professional restraint.
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New ship: Panther Clipper
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Hi All 
What a nice end to the day!
I don't think anybody's mentioned about ship skins for the Panther yet?....I guess the predominant colour or favourite colour will be a silky black?
Someone I believe has already mentioned fitting 'whiskers' to this ship, obviously in jest (though I personally saw the funny side), but I think a pair of feline shaped and coloured 'eyes' as decals and appropriately positioned near the front of the ship might go down well?...
...actually, thinking about those whiskers, perhaps that's not such a far fetched idea, if you think how this could be achieved by various forms of ship type cosmetics, incorporated into one type of ship kit or other for this model.
An observation and random thoughts on the current concept art and design....
For some reason those large landing pads (undercarriage legs) just scream out to me as needing a caterpillar track type base, (and ones that would enable the ship some extra fine movement when landed on a planet?)....as I said, it was just a random thought. Perhaps it's the combination of the oblong and square serrated design that at a quick glance reminds me of such.
I'm happy generally with the design though, and there's been quite a bit of change in the graphical, articulation and animation of some of these newer ships individual parts now, in comparison to the first ships released when the game first started out 10 years ago.
Jack
What a nice end to the day!
I don't think anybody's mentioned about ship skins for the Panther yet?....I guess the predominant colour or favourite colour will be a silky black?
Someone I believe has already mentioned fitting 'whiskers' to this ship, obviously in jest (though I personally saw the funny side), but I think a pair of feline shaped and coloured 'eyes' as decals and appropriately positioned near the front of the ship might go down well?
......actually, thinking about those whiskers, perhaps that's not such a far fetched idea, if you think how this could be achieved by various forms of ship type cosmetics, incorporated into one type of ship kit or other for this model.An observation and random thoughts on the current concept art and design....
For some reason those large landing pads (undercarriage legs) just scream out to me as needing a caterpillar track type base, (and ones that would enable the ship some extra fine movement when landed on a planet?)....as I said, it was just a random thought. Perhaps it's the combination of the oblong and square serrated design that at a quick glance reminds me of such.
I'm happy generally with the design though
, and there's been quite a bit of change in the graphical, articulation and animation of some of these newer ships individual parts now, in comparison to the first ships released when the game first started out 10 years ago.Jack
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Frontier's Python had a payload of 400t, Elite Dangerous's is 294. Frontier's Anaconda 650t, Elite Dangerous's is 470t. People keep comparing Frontier's payload stat to Elite Dangerous, but this is an entirely different game, with different considerations (being massively multiplayer), and Frontier payload isn't even a comparable stat to ED's maximum cargo capacity (in ED things like the FSD are separate, in Frontier they came out of the payload).
Certainly, but bigger thanks go to CMDR @Bigmaec even, who kept this topic alive for so many years, so it ultimately became a community meme even!
Be honest, virtually nobody actually believed FD would listen. Regardless of possible practical reasons justifying such a ship, @Bigmaec was the only one who kept the thought of it in our minds, and for years.
I bet it wouldn't be there without him.
Now while we stand here in fear and awe, don't forget the man who forged the meme!
O7,
I'll be in my bunk...
(I loved my Panther in F:E2. Loaded it with absurd numbers of shield generators and let pirates ram it. Also hex edited the game to give it like 10x better thrusters. All I ask is that both of these remain viable.)
No need to worry about that. The vertical thrusters in ED are a kind of pretty wild space magic that would make even the FSD blush.
Hi
Yep!...that's a good observation and a very good solution.
Well......It will be some time before a final design is considered completed by the ship design arm of Frontier, so maybe there will be some tweaks to come in this respect.
TheToucan (sorry 
) The Corsair's front end had some smoothing out with the addition of a ship kit, so maybe there will be similar stuff done either on the general design before final release or in the Panther's (ultimately expected) ship kits to follow that.
Beauty as always is in the eye of the beholder, or as the designer wants it to be as a statement. Those four engine thrusters were always going to be iconic to this ship and the first ideas gleaned from the original Frontier games (FE2 & FFE), so some over indulgence there is to be expected.
I understand what you mean by your statements though
Jack
Aha!...so it was you who made this remark!
Yep!...that's a good observation and a very good solution.
Well...
...It will be some time before a final design is considered completed by the ship design arm of Frontier, so maybe there will be some tweaks to come in this respect.The
) The Corsair's front end had some smoothing out with the addition of a ship kit, so maybe there will be similar stuff done either on the general design before final release or in the Panther's (ultimately expected) ship kits to follow that.Beauty as always is in the eye of the beholder, or as the designer wants it to be as a statement. Those four engine thrusters were always going to be iconic to this ship and the first ideas gleaned from the original Frontier games (FE2 & FFE), so some over indulgence there is to be expected.
I understand what you mean by your statements though
Jack
Like a brick. Good to see Frontier making good on its nearly decade old promises.
I'll go for 1398...
The Frontier ship building system of letting you put anything inside the fixed tonnage meant that you could use it for anything and people did it use it for everything. There's already a mention here of someone filling it with shield generators (common use) and making it a gunboat. That ridiculous flexibility is why there's so much nostalgia for it. It was never just a hauler.
Mines going to be a..... Miner
But you know it will be. Those Colonies aren't going to build themselves.
Search your feelings..... you know it to be true.
Nice! Where can we get the original high-res images?
People screamed about it constantly for the last like 8 years or so. I it was brought up constantly.
Sure they will if you apply the appropriate amount of pain.But you know it will be. Those Colonies aren't going to build themselves.
Search your feelings..... you know it to be true.
Pain is just weakness leaving the body...
Never owned a hauler in this game yet but I have to say it looks good. It even looks like it's the right proportions unlike the weird thing the other ships have where they give the impression of being small. I may buy one just to sit in the hangar looking pretty. It may get a name like the Spruce Goose. Maybe Platinum Panther.