Python Fighters ???
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The fighter bay wouldn't fit in the Python. It's almost twice as tall as the whole Python.
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Twas on the Q&A livestream earlier last week, they have no plans at present to change the Python, some ships just cant fit fighters.
Pretty much this, unfortunately. I do like the Python but fighters just won't fit without a serious redesign.
It's apparently FD's idea of "game balance". Which means that fighters will never be properly balanced in the game, because if they are powerful to help a T9 survive they will be OP when added to a Corvette or Anaconda, and vice-versa.
There is no rational reason why a Python or Clipper couldn't fit a fighter bay. They have more than enough internal space to do so. The lack of a fighter bay door on the ship model is irrelevant, they simply added this to the T9 by making minor changes to the ship model so if they wanted the Python to launch fighters, it would launch fighters. It's just an arbitrary and poorly thought out decision by FD.
There is no rational reason why a Python or Clipper couldn't fit a fighter bay. They have more than enough internal space to do so. The lack of a fighter bay door on the ship model is irrelevant, they simply added this to the T9 by making minor changes to the ship model so if they wanted the Python to launch fighters, it would launch fighters. It's just an arbitrary and poorly thought out decision by FD.
How is it a poorly thought out decision if adding a fighter bay to the Python would be overpowered? How would you suggest they do it differently?
Because it will also make the Anaconda, Corvette and Cutter overpowered. If the fighters are "balanced" for those ships there won't be any problem putting them on a Python, especially given that the Python has to give up a much higher proportion of its cargo space to do so.
Uh, actually python is taller, and generally bigger.
87.9L - 58.1W - 18.0H <- Python.
49.7L - 40.3W - 14.9H <- Keelback.
That said python simply isn't designed with fighters in mind, so it cannot fit it, design choice.
The Anaconda, Corvette, and Cutter are slow big moving targets. It's not hard to miss them meaning they can easily be swarmed and killed by smaller ships.
Fighters in this day and age are designed to screen and peel these smaller targets preventing "Wolfpack Tactics" and intercepting Torpedo Bombers from killing bigger ships while the bigger ships slug it out for actual control of the battlefield.
The Python has more speed and maneuverability making it capable of linking up with smaller Eagle, Viper, Cobra, and Vulture ships for devistating torpedo runs.
Fighters would be able to peel these smaller ships and let the big boys do their job of battlefield dominance.
Not really no, it will make them as powerful as FDev intends them to be, right now bigger ships are at a rather...odd point, they aren't really 'more' powerful, though they are 'more'
Would people fly an FDL or a corvette for example? sure a corvette is more powerful then an FDL, but an FDL still has an upper hand against Corvette, even more so against the two more slower ships, fighters give them a bit more nudge.
It's not so much the ship size, as shown in photo of Taipan approaching rear end of Anaconda, and it has folding wings anyway. It is the docking bay size, which seems arbitrary, unless there is something I don't understand about its design (quite possible !)
Those ships also have absolutely massive shield and armor potential, enough to readily ignore smaller ships who simply don't have the dps to take down their shields or hull in any reasonable amount of time. They can also use turrets to handle smaller ships as well. With fighters they then have no "weaknesses" and are uber-fortresses of death.
And yet you think putting a fighter on a Python or Clipper would somehow be OP?
Yeah, you want an uber aircraft carrier ship. What about the Gunship, why does it "need" fighters? What about the nearly useless Keelback that has to devote it's largest internal slot for a fighter bay? There is just no consistency in their choice of ships that support fighter bays at all. It's just not good game design to arbitrarily restrict certain ships from using fighters.
Python is a good middle-ground, but that would not make fighters OP at all. In fact if anything it would just make it slightly better at a job it already does, as opposed to compensating for the only real drawback of the larger ships.
The Python and Clipper are both mid-large sized ships. Why shouldn't they have that role as well?
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I like that
Keelback was designed with fighters in mind, the Python wasn't.
It would be work to go back and redo the model, the skin maps, and quite possibly the Python internals, which it really wouldn't surprise me were done back in the early days.
Lack of fighters for the Python does seem odd, I imagine it was skipped purely for pragmatic reasons.
It would be work to go back and redo the model, the skin maps, and quite possibly the Python internals, which it really wouldn't surprise me were done back in the early days.
Lack of fighters for the Python does seem odd, I imagine it was skipped purely for pragmatic reasons.
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All they have to do is add an external fighter hatch, like they did with the T9. They haven't modelled any "internals" to physically take space inside any of the ships. It's just a cosmetic change to add the hatch, much like the changes to the T9.
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