Ships The Dolphin Elite Club

Mengy

Mengy
The Dolphin is a great little ship, just about perfect for sightseeing missions. It's my third favorite ship in the game, just behind the DBE and Asp X, yet a tad above the Keelback.

Here's a couple pics of mine, the Wayward Fin. I'm not playing Elite right now but when I come back I'll be buying the new Wayfarer paint pack for her.


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Xiorell

X
I just brought one on a whim the other day and i LOVE it. Not finished fitting it out yet (might drop the economy cabin etc) but its so nice to fly

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James_Gray

James_Gray
I'm sitting on about 20mil after coming back to elite a couple weeks ago and participating in the past couple trade CG's. I'd like to pick up a new ship, and I'm starting to lean towards a Dolphin. Taxiing passengers around seems like a nice change from trading, but similar enough (I do love trading in my Type 7). So do you have any advice for a first time Dolphin owner? I should have enough credits to get the necessary internals, right? What type of cabins are best, which passengers should I go for? I'm going to pick it up once I get home from work, and I look forward to figuring it out, I'd just like a head start :p
 

Charlie Hustle

C
I honestly havent touched my dolphin in almost a month. A cute lil ship which introduces you to passenger missions, but too tiny for me at this point. I make more money from my aspX doing passenger missions. Especially since my aspX can jump further, hold a larger fuel tank, and carry a larger fuel scoop.
 

o'moylan

o'moylan
I love mine. It's my endgame ship. I wish I didn't feel so light in the loafers for flying it. I mean it's a Dolphin, not a Shark or a Killer Whale, its a Dolphin. It even sounds like one when you hit the jets, lol. I used the Asp and Python for so much that I'm sick of them. This time around it went from the Sidey to the Dolphin and I believe I'm done buying ships. Ok maybe the Anaconda for exploration at some point because I love the big three. Right now its my multipurpose ship and that's the way its going to stay. CHIRP CHIRP
 

loutreck

loutreck
o'moylan said:
Ok maybe the Anaconda for exploration at some point because I love the big three.
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I once started an exploration run with my Conda and after 3kLy i was so tired of her supertanker style handling in SC that i turned around and changed back to my AspX. And then the Phin came out.... Phinnies rock !!!
 

Neonin

Neonin
I got myself a Dolphin as a "starter" exploration ship... I don't think I'll get anything else, I love this little thing! [heart]

Here she is star-basking, love the ship so much I painted her gold (and she has two gold SRVs too), unlocked my first ever engineer, and gave her a G5 range-modded FSD. She'll now jump 42.5ly and I'm already back out around 2500ly from Sol in a couple of hours of jumping [big grin]

m8ku
 

Cmdr Tel

Cmdr Tel
Neonin said:
I got myself a Dolphin as a "starter" exploration ship... I don't think I'll get anything else, I love this little thing! [heart]

Here she is star-basking, love the ship so much I painted her gold (and she has two gold SRVs too), unlocked my first ever engineer, and gave her a G5 range-modded FSD. She'll now jump 42.5ly and I'm already back out around 2500ly from Sol in a couple of hours of jumping [big grin]

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I know how you feel!! Despite buying and enjoying upgrading a number of ships that she has paid for I still keep flying my Dolphin "La Phin". I just enjoy flying her. They are great for exploration and a very underrated ship, love mine. Safe travels Commander.
 

Neonin

Neonin
I know, I bought mine with the intention of her being a stepping stone to an AspX (I remember reading a short story that came with Frontier back in the day about a couple of people off exploring for ELW's in an AspX and I was going to replicate it) but, despite my initial intentions, there's no way I'm replacing her.

Bling bling in case of aliens, gotta look fly yo!

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13A

13A
24B has been out in the black for a while!
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I've had a refit and just set off to revisit some of the systems I passed through on the way to Beagle with Distant Worlds.

13A also has a Dolphin as his explorer, although not as heavily used as this ;)
 

Fray

Fray
Neonin said:
I got myself a Dolphin as a "starter" exploration ship... I don't think I'll get anything else, I love this little thing! [heart]

Here she is star-basking, love the ship so much I painted her gold (and she has two gold SRVs too), unlocked my first ever engineer, and gave her a G5 range-modded FSD. She'll now jump 42.5ly and I'm already back out around 2500ly from Sol in a couple of hours of jumping [big grin]

http://gdurl.com/m8ku
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That's one of the best shots I've seen of the Dolphin yet; the angle and colour temperature do wonders for the gold livery, too.

Not got a Dolphin yet, but I think I will pick one up, buy the gold skin and upgrade it later.
 

Cmdr Tel

Cmdr Tel
13A/24B said:
24B has been out in the black for a while!
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I've had a refit and just set off to revisit some of the systems I passed through on the way to Beagle with Distant Worlds.

13A also has a Dolphin as his explorer, although not as heavily used as this ;)
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Wow! Put a few Lys on her then. Time for a paint job I would say.

Any issues with her on the trip? Any changes/load out suggestions?

I've found she's a great little vessel, everything else is just gathering dust, simply great ship to fly.
 

13A

13A
Cmdr Tel said:
Any issues with her on the trip? Any changes/load out suggestions?
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I can't say I've had any issues with Dolphins whilst out in the black.

These are my builds

13A

24B

13A is a jack of all trades, so it's not a full explorer build, but the range is ~40ly.
24B is the dedicated explorer so most things are lightweight and/or low emission. Range is ~45ly.
 
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Kenneth McGrew

Kenneth McGrew
13A/24B said:
I can't say I've had any issues with Dolphins whilst out in the black.

These are my builds

13A

24B

13A is a jack of all trades, so it's not a full explorer build, but the range is ~40ly.
24B is the dedicated explorer so most things are lightweight and/or low emission. Range is ~45ly.
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heat on planets is still an issue and unfixed bug (beginning of vid the dolphin overheats just touching the controls, at 1:30 approx. I cant overheat for love nor money - even boosting)

[video=youtube_share;Ufiq08mgxwE]https://youtu.be/Ufiq08mgxwE[/video]

but I still travelled the whole galaxy and back in mine and it still had 100% hull and 100% modules upon return
 
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Neonin

Neonin
13A/24B said:
24B is the dedicated explorer so most things are lightweight and/or low emission. Range is ~45ly.
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Your 24B is pretty much the same build I'm running, except I have a 4G SRV bay (moved the 3D shield to the 3 slot, put a 2A auto repair in), a mining laser, and two heat sink launchers. The mining laser is in case I ever get stuck and need some stuff for an FSD boost in a system with no germanium on landable planets, and the heat sink launcher has already saved my life once when I landed slap bang in the middle of a close binary pair and nearly got heat death in a matter of seconds. Lowers the range slightly but I'm loving the ~42ly so I'm not that bothered :)
 
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13A

13A
Kenneth Mcgrew said:
heat on planets is still an issue and unfixed bug (beginning of vid the dolphin overheats just touching the controls, at 1:30 approx. I cant overheat for love nor money - even boosting)
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I have to say that the only time I noticed the heat bug was during the Beta.

I'm going to have a play tonight and see if I can get it to happen. Is there anything in particular that seems to trigger it?
 
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