News about new ships?

[Diostar50]

And the Moray Starboat.

Yes! maybe when we can land (or float) on water world?

 

[Ashnak]

The Hunter looks a bit like the attempt to make an imperial Heavy fighter supposed to be a threat to the Vulture... But seriously... Why so short, bubbled up and why putting those lateral engines so far out??... that looks... meh...

May look meh to you, looks efficient and deadly to me.

Short and stout: low moment of inertia for high maneuverability, small silhouette from any angle, low surface/volume ratio for large internals at low overall mass.
Far out engines: good leverage for thrusters -> again, high maneuverability

Downside: if this gets about the tonnage of a Vulture, it'll still need a medium pad due to those outriggers.

 

[Nalessa]

I would like to see an Imperial SLF carrier, and a Federation Anti Fighter ship.

Alliance... I have no idea what their preferred doctrine in space battles are, so no clue.

Could make their ships fighter bay oriented.

Kind of fits too, having ships that have a crew from all the different alliances working together, and fighters emphasize this pretty well.

 

[Hooplah]

In the years to come...

A specialized deep space explorer ship with a 500LY jump range. It would be limited in many ways as in minimum weapons, maneuverability and speed. It would be large, long and unable to dock requiring a shuttle/SRV combo for restocking/outfitting. With the current game design it wouldn't work for now having many issues especially over riding the current passenger missions. Still it is something to consider for the future. Knowing the game for decades I suspect that Frontier and hopefully the "young" Devs are aware of the Elite game history to add this addition per future releases. We'll see...

 

[RamirezKurita]

Could make their ships fighter bay oriented.

Kind of fits too, having ships that have a crew from all the different alliances working together, and fighters emphasize this pretty well.

Unfortunately, performance reasons mean that ships will be limited to only a single fighter at a time. It's hard to make a navy fighter orientated with this in mind, particularly when half of the unique federal ships have fighters themselves so it can't be much more fighter oriented than them.

 

[LKx]

Unfortunately, performance reasons mean that ships will be limited to only a single fighter at a time. It's hard to make a navy fighter orientated with this in mind, particularly when half of the unique federal ships have fighters themselves so it can't be much more fighter oriented than them.

With this and the way they have implemented multicrew, i think that it means that in the (far far away) future they will have serious trouble even for just walking around in the deck...

 

[Deadspin]

Personally I don't like the Gutamaya designs... looks too smooth, too gentle and too "luxury-show-off"... The more brutal and rugged shapes from Core Dynamics are by far more appealing to me

While I agree that the CD designs are nice, I actually like the originally concept art for most of them a lot more than what we actually got in game.

** Might not all be CD ships **

Like those.. those are fricken sexy to me. All of them.

And where is this ship?!

Don't even get me started on damage models.

 

[shadragon]

On the list right after space-legs, right?

As legs will probably be 2.4, it's not that far away then.

- - - Updated - - -

There was talk of a ship to be called The Hunter.


That needs to be in the game.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/94798-The-Hunter

 

[fademist]

As legs will probably be 2.4, it's not that far away then.

i expect legs will be a season though ...