General / Off-Topic So come on how about a proper cockpit layout that works like this?

Dibble · Mar 29, 2017

I saw this today and its worked for over several decades. not much view out of the window.
come on frontier pull your finger out and give us a spaceship like this. if not my teddy is going to be thrown
into space and won't play the game again.
just joking. can you guess what craft this is CMDRs?

have a good one cmdrs
cmdr dibble

TuxedoSteve · Mar 29, 2017

Several decades? Is it a Soyuz capsule?

Fost · Mar 29, 2017

I'd love if there were switches you could flip in headlook mode with a 'use' button. The cockpit lights would be a start.

NascentChemist · Mar 29, 2017

TuxedoSteve said:
Several decades? Is it a Soyuz capsule?

Yeah, based on the age he specified, you're probably right.

kofeyh · Mar 30, 2017

Soyuz is great, recently modernised internally as well. But if I wanted to fly in Soyuz I'd probably do that.

I suspect most people fly stuff in Elite because they want to see out. Also modules like this don't have much glass because of the weight and costs associated with using it.

Riverside · Mar 30, 2017

I have to be honest, I recognised it mostly from the film 'Gravity'

Martian Successor · Mar 30, 2017

Is the beta forum really the best place to post this thread?

dekot · Mar 30, 2017

So you don't want windows? You want people to fly ships just by looking at instruments?

Comrade Napoleon · Mar 30, 2017

I'd say a modernized Soyuz vehicle, the colour displays to new for Apollo, and if I see right, there is the famous reticule/scope for docking...

Cheers Cmdr's

Caramel Clown · Mar 30, 2017

Must be Soyuz. All the writing is in Russian

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead · Mar 30, 2017

That's what the Imperial ships look like if you remove any of the panels...

Caramel Clown · Mar 30, 2017

CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
That's what the Imperial ships look like if you remove any of the panels...

Fair enough.
Here's typical reactor room in Federal ship

Gotta give these guys some credit though. Shoveling in zero G must be quite a task.

Dibble · Mar 30, 2017

Yes your right. You need a stick to activate the buttons.
Its Tim Peaks Capsule. currently at the Science museum in London

Arvel Yael · Apr 1, 2017

Dibble said:
Yes your right. You need a stick to activate the buttons.
Its Tim Peaks Capsule. currently at the Science museum in London

There's a big giant sign on top of it with his name on and you still managed to spell it wrong (and without a possessive singular apostrophe)!!