Spoiled by the Anaconda

Alexei TND

Alexei TND
Greetings Commanders, Just wondering if anyone else experienced something similar.

A while back i finally worked myself up to the Fabled Conda. Have been having a blast blasting things in it and incrementally upgrading the modules as the needed funds flowed in.

At the beginning, maneuvering and flying this behemoth was a challenge, and many brown trouser moments during docking/leaving the station meant the ship was quite hard to fly for a noobie like myself.
By now however i can fly this heap of inertia almost blindly, and do boosts and near asteroids, and maneuvers like if i were in an eagle. And don't even get me started on the firepower :D

Yesterday i brushed the dust of my old chrome cobra to take it out for a spin and some dogfighting in the RES sites. However, this went badly for me.
I dont know if im just not used to small fast ships anymore, or the anaconda's firepower and tankiness spoiled me, but i felt pretty massively underwhelmed with the cobra after only a few minutes.

I was fast, but my play style seems to have adopted the large ship too greatly and refused to change back. The shields felt like they were made of hopes and dreams, and the Lasers and Multicannons seemed to be loaded with BB pellets and Flashlights.

Slightly disappointed i parked my Ex-favorite ship back in the hangar, and went back to the RES sight with my trusted giant.

Many dead clippers and dropships later i had docked back at the station with a warm feeling in my gut. I now know where i belong, behind the controls of a ship that turns slower than civilizations evolve, and deals out enough damage to glass a planet from orbit.
 

SongMinKi

SongMinKi
indeed. and with an A7 shield generator, 8 A0 boosters, 4 pips to shields and 4 SCBs you will never have to rely on your ship armour every again~
 

EddyRockSteady

EddyRockSteady
Exactly my sentiments.

I melt all other ships in seconds, with impunity. I have neither the time nor patience to float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. A sledgehammer to the face is more my style and in that the Anaconda is unbeatable.
 

tetra

tetra
It's just two completely different styles of combat, I have an anaconda and a python and both are vastly enjoyable playing them as the (slightly) light footed tanks they are, the damage output is huge and also the ability to take it. However I also find a ton of enjoyment in smaller ships too, the damage may be lower but the agility more than makes up for it. I hadn't touched my vulture for about 5 months, decided to give it a whirl the other day and nearly had a heart attack when I first touched off the docking bay, felt like I was flying a paper airplane with a jet engine strapped to the back of it after several weeks of pushing my freighter sized conda around. Just play what makes you happy lol, if you love large ship combat stick with that, but there is a lot to be said for the feel of running rings around larger ships in a smaller more agile one.
 

Carro

Banned
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Oh yes, oh yes. When I take out my A-rated Anaconda (aka "Dr. Sizzle") and fry those big boys in the RES and in the assassination missions I cannot contain my evil grin. :)
 

Alexei TND

Alexei TND
tetra said:
It's just two completely different styles of combat, I have an anaconda and a python and both are vastly enjoyable playing them as the (slightly) light footed tanks they are, the damage output is huge and also the ability to take it. However I also find a ton of enjoyment in smaller ships too, the damage may be lower but the agility more than makes up for it. I hadn't touched my vulture for about 5 months, decided to give it a whirl the other day and nearly had a heart attack when I first touched off the docking bay, felt like I was flying a paper airplane with a jet engine strapped to the back of it after several weeks of pushing my freighter sized conda around. Just play what makes you happy lol, if you love large ship combat stick with that, but there is a lot to be said for the feel of running rings around larger ships in a smaller more agile one.
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Yep exactly
Don't get me wrong, im not hating on the small ships, quite the opposite, heck my cobra carried me for most of my playing time, and i absolutely loved it. Just seems that big tanky ships are more my thing personally, but as you said its purely a personal choice and preference :)

i was just abit take back by the fact as my favorite activity is hunting pirates in RES sites, and i personally expected that a more agile ship would be more fun for me there too :)
 

SongMinKi

SongMinKi
Mr_Blastman said:
Never had to deal with plasma accelerators?
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I have, either i get hit by small plasma accelerators (under class 4) and shrug it off, or i just simply dont get hit by class 4 plasma accelerators... In either case, an A7 shield with 8 boosters amount to roughly 1.5 thousand MJ of shield strength, that coupled with 4 pips in shields is more than sufficient to tank a plasma shot to the face. Besides, if shields fall to the last layer, just activate a SCB
 

Brimstone

Brimstone
I fully kitted my Anaconda out for combat a couple weeks ago, and it was glorious. That ship really is worth the price tag! But after many combat zones, and gaining over 20% progress towards Elite from Deadly, I sold all the internal modules and went back to the smaller ships. Combat almost became too easy with that ship, and it was becoming a little boring.
 

Bruce Warren

B
Meh. 'Conda Schmonda. I'm saving up for a cutter. (I know it'll be a while before it appears in game, but that means I get to start saving early :p)
 

geoffrey.hdt

geoffrey.hdt
Brimstone said:
I fully kitted my Anaconda out for combat a couple weeks ago, and it was glorious. That ship really is worth the price tag! But after many combat zones, and gaining over 20% progress towards Elite from Deadly, I sold all the internal modules and went back to the smaller ships. Combat almost became too easy with that ship, and it was becoming a little boring.
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Exactly.
If you focus on PvE and God mode is your thing, go for the biggest ship you can afford. Otherwise, smaller ships are way more challenging and fun.
Taking down a T9 may become a challenge when its single Eagle escort shows up, and a single mistake may cost you an insurance claim (low!).
 
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Chaodiurn

Chaodiurn
I know what you mean. FD does a really good job on engineering ships with soul. Although I cannot claim that it happened to me in an Anaconda. I had one, mind you. For a few days. I lost the beauty twice in a station, and I think another time while being alt-tabbed. To me, it feels too heavy, too big. I felt its soul, its potential, but I just couldn't connect to it. While I liked to have a long snout stretching before the cockpit in the X games, this one just didn't harmonise with my style.

I sold it against all reasoning and got a Python early, which I had test-driven a day before buying the Anaconda. I happily let the Anaconda work off the 10% loss in liquidity. Now, the Python is where my heart's at. I fly it around, imagining the smell of wood being perfectly conserved by future science. A bottle of the future's equivalent of Mount Blanc Legend would be in the small glove box next to the seat. A simple fragrance, wide spread and not too expensive. Just the right thing for a pilot who wants to maintain at least a certain level of style, even if out there alone. In my cargo bay would be a box filled with fine rum and cigars, for the moments to enjoy the beauty of space.

I'm afraid that, even when FD should bring in flyable capital ships in 4.0, I still would sit in this light cruiser, happily offering my service as an escort against smaller crafts. To me, all new ships are just mere toys and possibly shift what ship plays in what tier, but none of what's to be expected for the nearer future has a chance to even remotely replace my Python.
 

Alexei TND

Alexei TND
Chaodiurn said:
I know what you mean. FD does a really good job on engineering ships with soul. Although I cannot claim that it happened to me in an Anaconda. I had one, mind you. For a few days. I lost the beauty twice in a station, and I think another time while being alt-tabbed. To me, it feels too heavy, too big. I felt its soul, its potential, but I just couldn't connect to it. While I liked to have a long snout stretching before the cockpit in the X games, this one just didn't harmonise with my style.

I sold it against all reasoning and got a Python early, which I had test-driven a day before buying the Anaconda. I happily let the Anaconda work off the 10% loss in liquidity. Now, the Python is where my heart's at. I fly it around, imagining the smell of wood being perfectly conserved by future science. A bottle of the future's equivalent of Mount Blanc Legend would be in the small glove box next to the seat. A simple fragrance, wide spread and not too expensive. Just the right thing for a pilot who wants to maintain at least a certain level of style, even if out there alone. In my cargo bay would be a box filled with fine rum and cigars, for the moments to enjoy the beauty of space.

I'm afraid that, even when FD should bring in flyable capital ships in 4.0, I still would sit in this light cruiser, happily offering my service as an escort against smaller crafts. To me, all new ships are just mere toys and possibly shift what ship plays in what tier, but none of what's to be expected for the nearer future has a chance to even remotely replace my Python.
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Spoken with the heart of a poet
I definitely agree, FD has managed to craft the ships with a unique character to them, and once you find the ship that most suits you, you embrace it fully and even its "flaws" become a thing you love
 
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aws357

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"once you go big you never go twig"

Apparently, this has been verified for "that thing that makes moderators scramble in panic and that rhymes with panic", female hips and now ships.
 
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