Now i know why my favorite ship in the game is the diamondback!

[CMDR Starschulz]

How could i have missed that! well done frontier, now when can i buy a paint for it?

 

[Karl Marx]

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How could i have missed that! well done frontier, now when can i buy a paint for it?

Oh dang... how did I miss that too?!?!

 

[Calaban]

I cannot quite place that first pic....

But I tried out the Grasshopp... er.. Diamondback. Didnt much care for the wings.
Or the entire back half of it that could clearly be used for other things, rather than just sloping down in some artistic angle-for-no-purpose.

 

[CMDR Starschulz]

I cannot quite place that first pic....

But I tried out the Grasshopp... er.. Diamondback. Didnt much care for the wings.
Or the entire back half of it that could clearly be used for other things, rather than just sloping down in some artistic angle-for-no-purpose.

Its the scout ship from Battlestar Galactica, the raptor!

 

[Brimstone]

If there was a BSG game made in the style of Elite (disregarding Diaspora and BSGO) I'd play the poop out of it.

 

[CMDR Starschulz]

You know, this got me thinking a bit. i wonder if there are other similarities that we haven't noticed? At least i can understand why they decided to ban AI

 

[Brimstone]

You know, this got me thinking a bit. i wonder if there are other similarities that we haven't noticed? At least i can understand why they decided to ban AI

well the Type 7 looks a lot like the Jotunn from BSGO, but ehhh it's not even a part of the actual story lol.

 

[Gelbrock]

The original Asp from the 1984 wire frame game was modeled on a pair of 1960's underpants....

 

[CMDR Starschulz]

well the Type 7 looks a lot like the Jotunn from BSGO, but ehhh it's not even a part of the actual story lol.

They both fly like a brick too.

 

[Brimstone]

Nah the t7 can actually maneuver, where as the Jotunn with a max speed of 40m/s just takes ages to get anywhere in.

 

[Faybs]

One significant difference is that the raptor is probably about a quarter the size of the DBS - look at the size of the human in both pictures. You can fit a pool table in the back of the cockpit of the DBS and there's enough room between the pilot's chair and the console to put a sofa. I think that's one of the reasons we have such a skewed sense of scale in this game - when we see a cockpit we're expecting something relatively cramped like a fighter or a space shuttle, instead we get a tennis court with a chair in the middle. I'm not complaining, but since that is the only cue we get for a sense of scale so obviously everything else will seem off as well. To me when I fly next to a planet it seems about the size of a hill, even when I'm almost at the exclusion zone. It will be interesting to see what it feels like when one lands on them.

 

[CMDR Starschulz]

^

That's what happens when you travel at either fractions or multiple times the speed of light though admittedly YV Canis Majoris still looks incredibly large.

 

[h347h]

One significant difference is that the raptor is probably about a quarter the size of the DBS - look at the size of the human in both pictures. You can fit a pool table in the back of the cockpit of the DBS and there's enough room between the pilot's chair and the console to put a sofa. I think that's one of the reasons we have such a skewed sense of scale in this game - when we see a cockpit we're expecting something relatively cramped like a fighter or a space shuttle, instead we get a tennis court with a chair in the middle. I'm not complaining, but since that is the only cue we get for a sense of scale so obviously everything else will seem off as well. To me when I fly next to a planet it seems about the size of a hill, even when I'm almost at the exclusion zone. It will be interesting to see what it feels like when one lands on them.

Get a Rift. The sense of scale is much better with one.