Ships What's the point of the Dolphin if you have an Orca or Beluga?

Verlaine

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I get the Dolphin as an entry-level passenger ship. But what role does it fit for commanders who own either of the larger Saud Kruger ships?
 

Fishy

Fishy
Stats-wise, the Dolphin can land on outposts I guess. But if stats were everything, we'd basically only ever fly an Asp/Python/Anaconda/FdL and have the best-at-everything.

Looks, sound, handling are all part of the enjoyment. :)
 

Henkka77

Henkka77
Verlaine said:
I get the Dolphin as an entry-level passenger ship. But what role does it fit for commanders who own either of the larger Saud Kruger ships?
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I have Beluga and i tried the Dolphin in beta and fell in love. Its just awesome little ship and yes, you can access outposts with it which its bigger brothers cant do.
 

PanTast

PanTast
I have all three. All heavily engineered. Each ship has its niche (if you use this term in english)

The Orca is splendid at high speed scan avoiding stuff criminal passenger require. The Beluga will do the job with many passengers and multiple missions. And the Dolphin is for the fun and the outposts.
All three ships are very nice to fly.
I think FD did a great job with almost all their ships :D

o7
 
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lenna

lenna
@OP: It is the ONLY luxury cabin capable craft able to dock at outposts.
 
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lenna

lenna
Verlaine said:
Why are luxury-class passenger missions from outposts important when such missions are plentiful at stations and on planets?
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You asked the original question about why the Dolphin is significant, you have your answer.

As for why being able to dock at outposts might be important... the other two Luxury capable vessels do restrict the potential destination stations which could be as significant as the station of pickup.

Also, if demands are made while in transit having the ability to dock at Outposts could be beneficial.
 
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Hooplah

Hooplah
Faster than many, very maneuverable, high jump rate, when stripped can hold 84T cargo, effective with fixed weapons. It is another multi-role ship solution and when A-rated is less than half the price of an A-rated Asp Explorer.
 

StiTch

StiTch
Surprised to be the one to point this out but also...dolphin comes in at 1.3 mill. Orca is 48.5 mill. Guess which one is a better rung on the ladder for newer players doing passenger missions?
 

AgamemnonWhen

AgamemnonWhen
I finally got round to 'having a go' in a Dolphin at the weekend. It's a lovely little flier! Nippy, great acceleration, nice SC handling - and sounds great (especially the 'turbo blow off valve' sound* when you boost).

Did a bit of engineering and got just shy of 34LY jump range out of it. Had a nice, peaceful time doing a couple of multi-stop "Rich Tourist" missions and earned CR4m in a couple of hours of pottering about checking out some interesting tourist beacons I'd not been to before.

PAX missions aren't really "my thing", but I will probably keep it - it's nice to have a luxury ride in the garage for the odd drive out!

* May be more "airline toilet" than BOV, but I like it!
 

lenna

lenna
Mohenjo said:
Interesting. I'd heard it was kind of a bad ship, slow and cumbersome.
It does have a lot of internal spaces, seemed to be a good exploration ship.
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Anyone complaining about the Dolphin being slow or cumbersome must have never flown anything bigger than a Cobra Mk III.
 

GJ51

GJ51
Verlaine said:
Why are luxury-class passenger missions from outposts important when such missions are plentiful at stations and on planets?
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What? Luxury Missions are plentiful?

Where? When?

Any of them pay better than available First Class?
 
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