Cough - SU-24 - cough SU-34Cough - Sea Venom - cough - A6 Intruder - cough - F111 - cough - de havilland Mosquito
Cough - SU-24 - cough SU-34Cough - Sea Venom - cough - A6 Intruder - cough - F111 - cough - de havilland Mosquito
I currently have a DBS and love it for this, but i want to upgrade eventually to a mid ship around 10-15 million that doesnt handle like a snail and or bite like one, a good fairly manouverable utility ship that does stuff ok, a bit like the asp explorer.
the federal ships are kinda cool and i do wish and likely will aim at a federal assault for this reason
any ship above 100 mill is high end, i barely make 1-2 milli pr day still hehe
Please tell me you mean most mid sized ships handle like snails, because if you think the DBS handles like a snail.......
While what you say is true, I don't think that you're taking size into account. Fighters have staggered seating yes, but fighters are also among the smallest of aircraft. Once you cross a certain size, it becomes impractical. I think of ships in Elite as being more on par with naval ships in space, than aircraft. Your mileage may differ.It's in general a bad design choice though. Space ships can't be compared to cars. Cars need to drive on roads and follow traffic rules and most importantly need to be able to judge their position on the road because of oncoming traffic.
None of this is the case for space ships. These have to follow rules of planes. Combat planes (fighters) never have off center pilot seats, since strong maneuvers (roll) will add a whole lot of additional forces on the pilot and aiming becomes a lot more difficult.
The only place where 2 seats next to each other make sense are planes which never engage in strong maneuvers (passenger/transport/general civilian).
And thats where the problem comes from. Elite follows this rule fairly well (except for e.g. the FDL which is plain stupid), rather we are the problem. We use general purpose ships as combat ships, effectively using civilian planes for dogfighting.
However I have to agree that, since most ships are more or less built for combat, you would expect people from the future to be smart enough to design all ships with this in mind.
That stupid, pointless, ugly, off-centerer bar in the FDL... GRRRRRRRR!
The only one in the whole wide world (which includes the Galaxy).am i the only one who wishes there where more single or mid seated ships
This is what I think too.I like sitting to one side. Makes the ships feel more cosy.
The corvette is symmetrical to a point... But if you look back the seat on the right is a bit further forward than the seat on the left.Well, there are:
Every lakon ship for starters.
Then the core dynamics ships including the federal x-ship series
And the anaconda is central too, as is the corvette i believe.
Not fighters.Cough - Sea Venom - cough - A6 Intruder - cough - F111 - cough - de havilland Mosquito
Frankly I think we need more blatantly asymmetric ships tbh.
where's my YT-1300 dammit?
Cough - Sea Venom - cough - A6 Intruder - cough - F111 - cough - de havilland Mosquito
That stupid, pointless, ugly, off-centerer bar in the FDL... GRRRRRRRR!
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