Answer me this: How many of you don't have either a Python or an Anaconda?
I've done some polls in some discord servers / groups / with some friends, and the answers were exactly as I expected, but more one on that in a bit.
The reason I'm asking this is quite simple: Why would I spend more money on a bigger ship if it's worse in almost every scenario if compared to a smaller, cheaper ship?
Why would I spend 84M on a Beluga Liner to do passenger missions and nothing else if I can spend 57M on a Python and do literally everything? Why would I grind Federation ranks to buy a Corvette if an Anaconda is virtually better at everything?
What's the logic for a ship that's made for any activity to be more profitable than a ship made specifically to a certain activity?
Just to be clear, I'm not saying multitask ships are bad, but the opposite - Why are dedicated ships so bad?
If we go back to the Beluga (and the other Saud Kruger ships), their only differential is the option to buy Luxury Cabins, but what's the poinf of Luxury Cabins if I can make twice the money with First / Business Class Cabins in any other ship?
"Yeah but you're supposed to use the Beluga for long distance VIP missions, hence the Luxury Cabins and colossal Fuel Tank. That way you can find pretty systems and get some exploration data" I've done well over a 100 of those. 99.99% of the time the systems are completely default, and the money from system scans are absolutely low. Once again, why would I do that if I can make twice that in the same time while only jumping between 2, 3 systems and not worrying about fuel if I use another ship?
Edit: Polls are not allowed here, but Anaconda and Python were VERY present in each activity.
I mean, you can all see that, right? Python and Anaconda are always up there. That's how good they are at everything.
My solution to this is a very simple one: Classify each ship and give a small bonus when doing missions with the same classification.
Combat with an Anaconda? You can make 50M in an hour. Combat with a Federal Corvette? That's a combat ship, here's a 20% bonus in all your payouts.
Passenger missions with a Python, sure, roughly a million per minute. Wanna use an Orca instead? Makes sense, it's a passenger ship, so you'll get 15% more per passenger.
Maybe take a Beluga and bring some VIPs to see the galaxy, they don't even care where, as long as they see nice things. How rich are they? They're paying 2M for each 10 systems you visit commander. How about a trip to Beagle Point, eh?
You liked the Type-9 Heavy? That's nice, it's a good ship. You even get a 10% bonus for each material mined or commodity traded!
That way everyone that's using the Anaconda or the Python (apparently over 95% of the whole player base) can still get the exact same amount of money they're getting (so no one will complain), and now there's a giant incentive to use something different in order to earn more and discover more stuff in the game.
Sincerely, a player that wants to see more ship diversity around the galaxy.
I've done some polls in some discord servers / groups / with some friends, and the answers were exactly as I expected, but more one on that in a bit.
The reason I'm asking this is quite simple: Why would I spend more money on a bigger ship if it's worse in almost every scenario if compared to a smaller, cheaper ship?
Why would I spend 84M on a Beluga Liner to do passenger missions and nothing else if I can spend 57M on a Python and do literally everything? Why would I grind Federation ranks to buy a Corvette if an Anaconda is virtually better at everything?
What's the logic for a ship that's made for any activity to be more profitable than a ship made specifically to a certain activity?
Just to be clear, I'm not saying multitask ships are bad, but the opposite - Why are dedicated ships so bad?
If we go back to the Beluga (and the other Saud Kruger ships), their only differential is the option to buy Luxury Cabins, but what's the poinf of Luxury Cabins if I can make twice the money with First / Business Class Cabins in any other ship?
"Yeah but you're supposed to use the Beluga for long distance VIP missions, hence the Luxury Cabins and colossal Fuel Tank. That way you can find pretty systems and get some exploration data" I've done well over a 100 of those. 99.99% of the time the systems are completely default, and the money from system scans are absolutely low. Once again, why would I do that if I can make twice that in the same time while only jumping between 2, 3 systems and not worrying about fuel if I use another ship?
Edit: Polls are not allowed here, but Anaconda and Python were VERY present in each activity.
I mean, you can all see that, right? Python and Anaconda are always up there. That's how good they are at everything.
My solution to this is a very simple one: Classify each ship and give a small bonus when doing missions with the same classification.
Combat with an Anaconda? You can make 50M in an hour. Combat with a Federal Corvette? That's a combat ship, here's a 20% bonus in all your payouts.
Passenger missions with a Python, sure, roughly a million per minute. Wanna use an Orca instead? Makes sense, it's a passenger ship, so you'll get 15% more per passenger.
Maybe take a Beluga and bring some VIPs to see the galaxy, they don't even care where, as long as they see nice things. How rich are they? They're paying 2M for each 10 systems you visit commander. How about a trip to Beagle Point, eh?
You liked the Type-9 Heavy? That's nice, it's a good ship. You even get a 10% bonus for each material mined or commodity traded!
That way everyone that's using the Anaconda or the Python (apparently over 95% of the whole player base) can still get the exact same amount of money they're getting (so no one will complain), and now there's a giant incentive to use something different in order to earn more and discover more stuff in the game.
Sincerely, a player that wants to see more ship diversity around the galaxy.
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