What happened to the Imperial Courier?
- Thread starter McJones
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??????? Mine flies like a dream 
Do you mean Imp CUTTER ??
Do you mean Imp CUTTER ??
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It is docked
It was added to the game in like May or June 2015.
What was the Courier became the Clipper. The Courier we have now is an awesome little fighter. The Clipper is the big, fast, powerful ship the old Courier was.
I understand where the confusion is coming from.
The current courier does not very much resemble the versions we saw in previous games.
I don't mind.
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I didn't even realise that ship was named "Courier" - shows how much I pay attention. Although the resemblances are apparent i.e. the nacelles, in my minds eyes, its just not what I imagined it to be. Never mind. False Alarm. It is what it is.
I'll just have to remember the "Couriers" glory days when it was pretty much THE ship of the line.
I'll just have to remember the "Couriers" glory days when it was pretty much THE ship of the line.
It's quite confusing at first, but basically the old Courier is now the Clipper and the old Imperial Eagle is now the Courier.
But frankly, the Clipper does hold true to much of the old Couriers greatness. It does what it's good at very well.
But frankly, the Clipper does hold true to much of the old Couriers greatness. It does what it's good at very well.
And WHAT a beauty, however we need some paint jobs. I want the Tiger paint.
I liked the original imperial trader as it looked like the Liberator from Blake's 7
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And to avoid further confusions, FD renamed/recycled the old 'Imperial Trader' as the 'Imperial Cutter'. They also removed the top nacelle.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, memories. "Zen, forcewall! Jenna, get us out of here!"
CMDR_UberDude
Banned
Oh..this blasphemy explains why on other day when I faced Imperial Courier on my Cobra Mk3 and shot it to pieces very easy and very fast, was kinda disapointed because I still remember how bad ass it once were, why Braben, oh why?
CMDR_UberDude
Banned
Yea I don't understand this. It's his game. It's his meta. Why has he thrown most of it out of a window and changed so many things?
They probably changed it because it was an Apex predator. It's a Python sized ship that's far deadlier. They nerfed the Python because it was too OP. If they'd added in the Courier as it originally was, it'd have been 2 to 3 times more effective than a Pre-Nerf Python.
CMDR_UberDude
Banned
That's why you put them behind giant time sink walls. Make it require the rank of king and cost 800 million credits. I don't understand this fear of having a ship be incredibly powerful. I don't understand why there can't be "the" ship to rule them all for a particular aspect. The Cutter is the trader to rule them all at the moment. So why not have that for combat ships?
What's wrong with having End-game uber ships? Seems like too many people are caught up worrying about how to properly balance things that really don't need to be balanced. So the Imperials get some amazing OP super ship, big deal. Copy the stats, change the hull to something that resembles an oversized vulture and name it the "Federal Cookie Cutter". I call that balance. /s
Certain ships should be OP as hell when compared to other ships. The FDL should be able to cut up a python because the python is a multirole. That makes sense to me. I wouldn't have seen anything wrong with the Courier being an apex predator if it was placed behind an appropriately ridiculous time sink. You reading this Braben?
(probably not)