Ships Test flight before purchase?

Siilk · Nov 4, 2015

Just as the title says, is there a way to test flight the ship before purchasing? Nothing fancy, just a simple test of how it feels(turning, accel/decel etc)? Sure, there are stats out there but numbers can't tell you everything...

Stealth Gamer92 · Nov 4, 2015

Nope, it's been asked for more than a few time's.

SAB380 · Nov 4, 2015

Elite Dangerous ship sellers have an interesting marketing strategy:

"No try before buy. Give us $50M and we give you a ship. You're not even allowed to look at it before hand!"

TheGrimCorsair · Nov 4, 2015

Probably the best reason not to allow this is you aren't actually buying a complete ship when you buy one. You're getting a hull and the bits to get it to a place that can outfit it (if it can't be done locally), and really, the stock parts aren't at all representative of the capabilities of a ship in the slightest.

Cdr Voorheez · Nov 4, 2015

Let's not forget the massive depreciation on a ship bought which you are not happy with/want to sell to upgrade as well. Selling ships puts Cdrs at a loss.

Ceekay · Nov 4, 2015

Sign up to a Beta and use some of the time to try ships and loadouts

Starender · Nov 4, 2015

SAB380 said:
Elite Dangerous ship sellers have an interesting marketing strategy:

"No try before buy. Give us $50M and we give you a ship. You're not even allowed to look at it before hand!"

well that makes sense right ? xD

i guess it should be solves, maybe a test is not a bad idea, but with everything Devs have to do i'm not sure if they will ever find the time for this

Siilk · Nov 5, 2015

TheGrimCorsair said:
Probably the best reason not to allow this is you aren't actually buying a complete ship when you buy one. You're getting a hull and the bits to get it to a place that can outfit it (if it can't be done locally), and really, the stock parts aren't at all representative of the capabilities of a ship in the slightest.

But it doesn't have to be a vanilla ship. Player should be able to specify the loadout he wants to try out. From an in-universe standpoint, it can be a VR simulation ran by shipyards where they can put you inside any ship you want with any loadout possible. It could actually be a paid service, costing say 1% of the actual ship's price, which will let you either fly around a couple of "generic" star systems to test superscruise and jump range or engage several simulated enemies in a dogfight to see how ship handles in combat. INB4 Yo dawg I heard you like space simulators

As an alternative, ship/loadout selection should be added to the tutorial after it was completed in the default sidewinder.

TheGrimCorsair · Nov 5, 2015

Siilk said:
But it doesn't have to be a vanilla ship. Player should be able to specify the loadout he wants to try out. From an in-universe standpoint, it can be a VR simulation ran by shipyards where they can put you inside any ship you want with any loadout possible. It could actually be a paid service, costing say 1% of the actual ship's price, which will let you either fly around a couple of "generic" star systems to test superscruise and jump range or engage several simulated enemies in a dogfight to see how ship handles in combat. INB4 Yo dawg I heard you like space simulators

As an alternative, ship/loadout selection should be added to the tutorial after it was completed in the default sidewinder.

Yo dawg I he-oh. Right.

If that were the case and they let you give it an honest shakedown with all the bells and whistles? Yeah, THAT would be great and a worthy addition.