The mamba is a courier replacement...

CMDR Karrde Sun

CMDR Karrde Sun
For anyone that doesn't care about combat. Giving it some more time today, the ship for me that is being obsoleted by the mamba is the courier (i don't use a fdl anyway).

- The canopy experience is similar but infinitely better.
- The boostiness implied by the couriers shape is actually realised in the mamba, even with clean grade 3 it gets over 500.
- It jumps about the same with guardian modules.

I'm really liking it actually.. the whole experience is that little bit riskier and kinda good.

The only thing that seems out of place is the outfitting feels too limited for something that physically large.. it needs one more optional internal to rationalise imo. If that physical size is supposed to represent all engine, what it has is just a bit too modest. I'd like it to hit 600 without effort to prove its point there.. 500 is achieved via SLF's even, nothing remarkable anymore.

Yeah fun!
 

Milner

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Flown it a bit in beta and sorry but j just don't agree it's at all replaces the courier. I may fly both and replace the fdl which I never seem to get on with.
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Combat couriers do over 800. Not even close to replacing my courier or the feeling of buzzing an installation or running canyons at that kind of speed. I see what you mean about the cockpit though.
 

Muetdhiver

Muetdhiver
My combat courrier does 800 boosting and does not cook itself in combat.

My exploration racing courrier does close to 800 with a better jump range.

I can't see the mamba getting remotely close. It fun, sure. But the speed is not high enough to get into the racing league.

Now, if it came with a C5 perf enhanced drive, that would be unique to it, then we would be speaking.

Outfitting would become very interesting too, given the slope if the mass curve...
 
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Ashnak

Ashnak
Nope. Courier perma boosts to 850, Mamba perma boosts to 650.

The Courier is a Porsche 911 (or maybe a Nissan 370), the Mamba is a Daimler S-class (AMG after you've been through the Engineers).
 

MajorHavoc

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Still prefer the Courier for HUD off parallax discovery, has a nice dark cockpit and decent bubble canopy although I would pay Gutamaya a billion credits to remove the canopy struts !
 

M00ka

M00ka
mrxtheta said:
And still courier can jump abou 35-40...
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.. and can do it (and a lot of other activities) without overheating :D

The main thing is, the wonderful Courier is a small ship that flies like a small ship: nippy, agile, fast, zippy and it is so much fun to fly :D
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Trollymctrollerson said:
I'm getting really tired of these "ship xxx replaces/obsoletes ship zzz" threads. That's not how this works. How hard is it to see the ships are unique?
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To be fair, it's more a case of trying to find something the Mamba might be especially useful for.

Personally, I figure as long as they fix the heat it will make a decent combat ship.
Still be nice if it was smaller/lighter though.
 

abumonkey

abumonkey
Please can people share their fast combat ready builds - i seem to only be able to do one or another with any success so would be interested how to do a 800+ speed combat courier
 

Heavenly-Hammer

Heavenly-Hammer
StarLightPL said:
Just a quick PSA - I saw on the most recent livestream that the mamba heat issues will get fixed before release.
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Yes, I believe that is well-known now. It's really a question of whether it will be fixed in time for players to do any significant testing. In its present condition, it seems largely un-testable.
 
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