Orca purpose?

[techie33]

Can someone explain me existance of this ship (since December 16 2014) ?



and "The Anaconda can also be upgraded with a docking bay allowing small fighters up to Sidewinder size to be carried and launched."

 

[Trenchfoot321]

Can someone explain me existance of this ship (since December 16 2014) ?

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Ramming machine

 

[LittleJP]

Stealth ramming machine

 

[techie33]

i ment on this one



Kamikaze ship

 

[Colonel North]

Can someone explain me existance of this ship (since December 16 2014) ?

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Well it looks nice! Looks posh inside too. Its also nice to fly for a ship of its size but it does seem to be without a use. Too weak and lardy for combat, too expensive and not enough capacity for trading. Too short ranged for exploring.

Shame. Upping the jump range would make for a nice ship to explore and sightsee in.

At some point adding passenger mechanics will give the Orca more purpose but the jump range still needs a tweak to make this work.

 

[DidierDrbois]

i ment on this one

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THAT is the stealth ramming machine everyone's talking about And since passengers are second fiddle to utter rubbish like PvP arenas, I'm sure it'll find a good use there.

 

[Trenchfoot321]

So did we. Ramming ship.

 

[techie33]

Kamikaze ship

 

[Zeeman]

Looks kinda like a Tomahawk, so yeah, ramming ship makes sense.

Z..

 

[Brimstone]

http://youtu.be/rTAx8r_090o

RAMMING SPEED!!

 

[Trenchfoot321]

Kamikaze ship

Except people aren't dying. They're ramming the paint out of people, but not dying. So...ramming ship...

 

[Kosmetas]

My personal space yacht... of course.

 

[techie33]

Update 1.4


http://www.elite-dangerous-blog.co.uk/Blog/2015/4/20/the-ships-in-13-powerplay

thank you

 

[palerider777]

Update 1.4
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http://www.elite-dangerous-blog.co.uk/Blog/2015/4/20/the-ships-in-13-powerplay

thank you

By the way if that is your blog, the information about the federal corvette is incorrect. It was never intended to be the largest ship. Simply the largest federal ship which at this point simply means that it is of greater size than the federal dropship.

 

[Muss]

At some point adding passenger mechanics will give the Orca more purpose but the jump range still needs a tweak to make this work.

little things like heavily populated tourism systems will give this ship and its brethren a purpose, Maybe a community goal where a star is going supernova and we need to evacuate the entire population of a system within a month starting with low prices and as it gets close and more risky to jump in (solar flares damaging systems, looters ect) the prices skyrocket

Hell yeah I would be one of the last pilots out to quite doing that hehehe

EDIT: just how many Orca's would you need to clear out 10 billion people in a month (someone do the math) and then all the other gear that the transports could assist with.
A quick google reports 30 supernova per second in the observable universe so how many in the milky way, enough for an excuse for one per year I would think

EDIT 2: I did the math
Assuming 250kg per passenger (cargo/life support/ect) quite generous really
Orca 72T capacity
288 people per trip
10,000,000,000 people
34,722,222.22 trips to evac everyone.

And why would you not just grab a T9 ect
Well the orca is a passenger ship so it has the life support/plumbing/entertainment capabilities for passengers, to make it balanced other transports need say 1 tonne per passenger... as each passenger cabin is like a modular Japanese cube hotel.