New ships for 2025: more craziness / variety please

[Rubbernuke]

I know FD Towers heard those cash registers ka-ching over new ships, but when we see more can we have ones that are a bit more unique (rather than literal replacements for existing ships)?

For example:

More SLFs (perhaps using classic Elite 1984 as a template with ships like the Krait)
Thargoid derived vessels (say with built in Goid weapons like lightning)
Guardian derived vessels (that have bonuses for having guardian modules used)
More outlandish hardpoint layouts- like having a small ship with large or even huge hardpoints
Dedicated SLF carriers (allowing more simultaneous SLFs)

 

[Robert Maynard]

Panther Clipper or riot I shall haz a sad.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Panther Clipper or riot I shall haz a sad.

Well Trailblazers will require cargo so......maybe?

 

[Badmiker]

SLFs that can land (Ship launch tenders?)
More ground vehicles: light and fast bikes?

 

[jacklul]

Panther Clipper or riot I shall haz a sad.

It is delayed by 1 month each time it is mentioned, I think our kids might live to see it.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Large ship with 20 small hardpoints. Stick on the beam lasers, wait for the NPCs to drop chaff and away we go.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Large ship with 20 small hardpoints. Stick on the beam lasers, wait for the NPCs to drop chaff and away we go.
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Twenty cytos....

 

[aRJay]

Twenty cytos....

No has to be turrets or gimbals or the light show doesn’t work properly with the chaff.

 

[Rubbernuke]

No has to be turrets or gimbals or the light show doesn’t work properly with the chaff.

Have you seen inertial impact cytos? No turret or gimbal required....

 

[aRJay]

Have you seen inertial impact cytos? No turret or gimbal required....

No I don’t use PP equipment and almost never fit fixed weapons.

 

[Rubbernuke]

No I don’t use PP equipment and almost never fit fixed weapons.

The jitter is quite something.

 

[aRJay]

The jitter is quite something.

It would be even more so on a turret.

 

[Rubbernuke]

It would be even more so on a turret.

Prior to cyto jitter being halved having a cyto + II added something silly like 6 -9 degrees of jitter. On a burst laser thats as close to a rave laser as you get in ED. Multiply that by 20 and...that'd be a sight.

 

[Disemboweled Ego]

Panther Clipper as a SLF for cargo hauling in Trailblazers

 

[aRJay]

Panther Clipper as a SLF for cargo hauling in Trailblazers

And I thought I was being mean suggesting that the Panther Clipper would fit on a small pad, but one you can fit inside a Keelback.

 

[Robert Maynard]

Panther Clipper as a SLF for cargo hauling in Trailblazers

... where SLF = Ship Launched Freighter, and the ship in question is the "it's even bigger than a Carrier" Colonisation vessel....

 

[Rubbernuke]

If anything, just no more medium ships please. I want more Clippers and less 'jack of all trades'.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Small ship with one huge hardpoint. Bonus points if the ship is as small as possible to be built purely around that hardpoint. Basically I just want a flying plasma accelerator.

 

[Robert Maynard]

If anything, just no more medium ships please. I want more Clippers and less 'jack of all trades'.

Before the introduction of the four ships last year we ha 13 small ships (14 if we include the elusive Cobra Mk IV), 15 medium ships and 9 large ships. We now have 20% more medium ships, 7.7% more small ships and 0% more large ships. We'd need another 1.6 small ships and 1.8 large ships to equalise the relative increases between ship sizes. Put differently, we need 2 new small ships and 2 new large ships to spread the love evenly over the fleet as a whole.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Before the introduction of the four ships last year we ha 13 small ships (14 if we include the elusive Cobra Mk IV), 15 medium ships and 9 large ships. We now have 20% more medium ships, 7.7% more small ships and 0% more large ships. We'd need another 1.6 small ships and 1.8 large ships to equalise the relative increases between ship sizes. Put differently, we need 2 new small ships and 2 new large ships to spread the love evenly over the fleet as a whole.

Falcon, Osprey, Imperial Explorer and Panther Clipper?