True. I like ASP, and in my opinion this ship looks good, however I am not a fan of crane-style Lakon cabins too. It will be good to have a choice with similar purpose ships but in other design.
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True. I like ASP, and in my opinion this ship looks good, however I am not a fan of crane-style Lakon cabins too. It will be good to have a choice with similar purpose ships but in other design.
Also a coaxial pony in every pylon.
Well considering that the listed speed for the Cobra is 280, is barely slower. It all depends on the expansion slots. As someone else said, the Courier seems to fill a gap between the Cobra and the Asp/Vulture, and personally I like that. I currently fly and A-kitted Asp for battle and cargo, but I would be happy to "downgrade" to a lighter ship which still retains upgrade potential - I actually like the handling of the Cobra most of all, but I don't use it because it just can't stand up to higher level ships.
Based on this, it's also my speculation that the Diamondback will fill the gap between the Asp/Vulture and the Clipper. It may be indeed the next best "bang for your buck" ship (award that I currently attribute to the Asp)
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From all we know, it'd be a significant downgrade compared to the Cobra.
What we know:
- the price will be like 8 times of the Cobra.
- depending on your weapon choice, you might have a tiny bit more of firepower than the Cobra, but based on the remaining info, the power distributor probably will limit it and cut it down to Cobra size.
- the speed will be a little lower than of the Cobra
- we'll have two more utility slots than the Cobra. That's the only positive i actually see.
- jump range will be significally lower than the Cobra. For something considered a "courier", so being supposed to deliver something to a remote place quickly, that's quite a letdown.
What we can estimate from the cargo size statement, assuming that the ships layout matches the other ships we have up to now:
- Top modules will be in the same ballpark as the Cobra, so we won't have exceptional high power or shields.
What we have no idea about:
- the actual number of compartments. There is hope that we might have a good number of small compartments for scanners, fuel scope and the likes, albeit at the price of mass which will shrink the jump range even further and thus probably will not be worth it.
- how agile the ship will be. This might be the remaining halfway redeeming advantage of the ship.
All in all, everything but the tiny jump range would be allright for me, but a "Courier" with so short jump range is a shame for that name and needs fixing.
What we know:
- the price will be like 8 times of the Cobra.
- depending on your weapon choice, you might have a tiny bit more of firepower than the Cobra, but based on the remaining info, the power distributor probably will limit it and cut it down to Cobra size.
- the speed will be a little lower than of the Cobra
- we'll have two more utility slots than the Cobra. That's the only positive i actually see.
- jump range will be significally lower than the Cobra. For something considered a "courier", so being supposed to deliver something to a remote place quickly, that's quite a letdown.
What we can estimate from the cargo size statement, assuming that the ships layout matches the other ships we have up to now:
- Top modules will be in the same ballpark as the Cobra, so we won't have exceptional high power or shields.
What we have no idea about:
- the actual number of compartments. There is hope that we might have a good number of small compartments for scanners, fuel scope and the likes, albeit at the price of mass which will shrink the jump range even further and thus probably will not be worth it.
- how agile the ship will be. This might be the remaining halfway redeeming advantage of the ship.
All in all, everything but the tiny jump range would be allright for me, but a "Courier" with so short jump range is a shame for that name and needs fixing.
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i remember a dev said that the courier is very agile, but for the cargo from the screenshot i can say that it won't have very much of it
this ship is to damn expensive for what it is, clearly should have been around 200k, but yea not much is confirmed yet, maybe it's stats are better that we think
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Limited cargo space i was expecting. After all, a courier is not a hauler, his task is not to bring huge loads of materials, but to deliver messages and small packages quickly. It's really just the annouced tiny jump range, which does not match the picture and thus hurts.
Hopefully if the jump range truly is as bad as it appears from the sneak peak, the feed back from the beta guys will prompt them to tweak it up. It really makes no sense for a courier to have a lower jump range than the trade ships. It appears that the Hauler and the Type 6 both have considerably larger jump ranges than this ship.... which seems utterly wrong.
Hmmm - I'm tentatively hopeful about it still. Everything I'm reading today suggests its very configurable, so if you want to spec it out to go large distances you can. But its MUCH smaller than I expected, and that translates into any extra components having big impacts on jump range. I actually can't wait to try it out. With that wonderful cockpit, and a track-ir setup, if its flexibly configurable for several different tasks, then I suspect I'll be very happy with it.
I think you can get it into the top four for jump range, actually.