After probably more hours spent in Elite than any game I've played in many a year I finally bought a Python, my first 'high end' ship.
To be honest, it's not all I was expecting it to be.
In terms of spec it should be the only ship I'll ever need:
- It's arguably the best cargo ship, since it has a huge hold and can land on outposts.
- It makes a formidable combat ship.
- It jumps far enough to be a good explorer (which is what I was planning to do again quite soon).
- With enough money, it can be fitted out as a great all-rounder.
But... The cockpit is horrible. If I take it across the galaxy, that's what I'll be staring at. A cramped little slot of a window, with a permanently empty copilot's chair next to me. No view through the roof and fat struts all over the window.
The worst for me at the moment, since I'm still trading in it, is not having a view through the floor. I've become so used to it in ships like the Asp, Vulture and the big cargo vessels, it makes landing so much more difficult without it. Basically you have to fly it on instruments for the final stage of landing, which is not much fun.
If anyone from Frontier is reading, please can I have a 'modern' Python, with a glass cockpit. Or if the cockpit has to be perched on top of the hull, maybe the floor could be a big video screen. They can do it in cars in the 21st century (reversing cameras, AR glasses) so I'm not sure why spacecraft a millennium from now can't.
To be honest, it's not all I was expecting it to be.
In terms of spec it should be the only ship I'll ever need:
- It's arguably the best cargo ship, since it has a huge hold and can land on outposts.
- It makes a formidable combat ship.
- It jumps far enough to be a good explorer (which is what I was planning to do again quite soon).
- With enough money, it can be fitted out as a great all-rounder.
But... The cockpit is horrible. If I take it across the galaxy, that's what I'll be staring at. A cramped little slot of a window, with a permanently empty copilot's chair next to me. No view through the roof and fat struts all over the window.
The worst for me at the moment, since I'm still trading in it, is not having a view through the floor. I've become so used to it in ships like the Asp, Vulture and the big cargo vessels, it makes landing so much more difficult without it. Basically you have to fly it on instruments for the final stage of landing, which is not much fun.
If anyone from Frontier is reading, please can I have a 'modern' Python, with a glass cockpit. Or if the cockpit has to be perched on top of the hull, maybe the floor could be a big video screen. They can do it in cars in the 21st century (reversing cameras, AR glasses) so I'm not sure why spacecraft a millennium from now can't.
