What do you people mean by "vanilla ships"?

[Karlos Ploryman]

Hello commanders,

in various threads I stumbled over this term "vanilla ship build" and I do not understand what it means.

Can anyone explain please?

Thank you! Karlos

 

[StiTch]

Not actually heard the term myself in relation to ships, but going to fire off the likely assumption it's an unmodded ship - i.e. one without any engineer mods.

Ships that are "as bought from the shipyard" are typically called stock ships.

 

[Weps]

Ships that are "as bought from the shipyard" are typically called stock ships.

Personally I'd rather call a stock ship the ship in the form it is being sold at the shipyard, meaning with only E-grade modules, default weapons etc.

I'd call a vanilla ship any kind of ship build (A-rated etc.) which is only available in the vanilla version of the game (1.6 onwards), no engineers modifications.

 

[StiTch]

Personally I'd rather call a stock ship the ship in the form it is being sold at the shipyard, meaning with only E-grade modules, default weapons etc.

I'd call a vanilla ship any kind of ship build (A-rated etc.) which is only available in the vanilla version of the game (1.6 onwards), no engineers modifications.

I am pretty sure you've just mirrored exactly everything I said.

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

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Can anyone explain please?
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It's a way to differentiate the standard space ship from a macadamia nut brittle triple chock maple syrup space ship. Spaceship commanders like to describe their ships that way, makes them sound meaner and tougher.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_vanilla

 

[Weps]

I am pretty sure you've just mirrored exactly everything I said.

Now that I read your post a second time... I think so too. Sorry. Flu medication must be affecting me.

 

[zombieapocalypse]

They're ships that taste like ice cream

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

It's usually an alternative to the word Standard, or stock.

To be honest, vanilla is mostly referred to when talking about game mods.
"Vanilla Skyrim, or Modded Skyrim" kinda thing.

Could be applied to ships, although the terms E rated or stock, to A rated and modded, works best, with less confusion.

 

[Karlos Ploryman]

Thank you all! K.

 

[Wile_E]

You people have no clue! This is a vanilla ship and this is a liquorice ship.

Plain as day!

 

[noldunar]

I have used the term myself.

With "vanilla" I mean unmodified by engineers. Meaning outfitted only with of the shelf components. Can be A-rated but not necessarily so.

A plain ship as sold by the shipyard I would call a "stock ship".

A ship tinkered with by the engineers would be a "modded ship" in my book.