As an old BBC B player I was wondering where the constrictor is?
Any chance the Devs could add it for sale at Lave ? For those that do the pilgrimage
Any chance the Devs could add it for sale at Lave ? For those that do the pilgrimage
Where's the Constrictor?
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For the Un-Lored: the Constrictor was central to the late-game original Elite: you were given a special mission to track down and destroy the Constrictor, an experimental warship which had been stolen.
In later games (FE2 and FFE) the Constrictor was just one of the many possible ship options. It's role was as a small, quick armed trader, a little brother to the Asp, with the particular niche that it was one of the largest ships capable of having a Military Drive fitted.
In ED, it's role has been largely made redundant, not least because of the lack of "military frameshiift drives". In many other respects, I would say its role has been filled by the Asp Scout.
In later games (FE2 and FFE) the Constrictor was just one of the many possible ship options. It's role was as a small, quick armed trader, a little brother to the Asp, with the particular niche that it was one of the largest ships capable of having a Military Drive fitted.
In ED, it's role has been largely made redundant, not least because of the lack of "military frameshiift drives". In many other respects, I would say its role has been filled by the Asp Scout.
There's a number of ships from the earlier games we don't have, but not all of them are worth flying.
Anyone remember the interplanetary shuttle?
By the time of Elite 2 the constrictor seemed to have become badly outclassed. If memory serves it was little better than a heavy cobra that needed a second person to fly. It was something you only flew when on your way to getting an asp. Much in the same way that you only flew the puma when you were trying to get enough crew for the panther.
Of course the original constrictor had a cloaking device. I wouldn't mind one of those on my ship. It would make smuggling much easier. Probably break the game balance though
Anyone remember the interplanetary shuttle?
By the time of Elite 2 the constrictor seemed to have become badly outclassed. If memory serves it was little better than a heavy cobra that needed a second person to fly. It was something you only flew when on your way to getting an asp. Much in the same way that you only flew the puma when you were trying to get enough crew for the panther.
Of course the original constrictor had a cloaking device. I wouldn't mind one of those on my ship. It would make smuggling much easier. Probably break the game balance though
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Well,
considering we will have many seasons ahead of us, maibe we will see many revamped of the original elite and ff2/ffe3 ships.
even if they are not as powerfull or as not flexible , I would like to see them in the game , at least for the nostalgia they would give.
considering we will have many seasons ahead of us, maibe we will see many revamped of the original elite and ff2/ffe3 ships.
even if they are not as powerfull or as not flexible , I would like to see them in the game , at least for the nostalgia they would give.
It was purely for nostalgic reasons a bit along the lines of why people make the pilgrimage to lave would be nice to pick up a constrictor as a memento
Have to admit forgot all about kraits and moray starboats would be good add those too and a cobra mk1
I'd like to see Saud Kruger release a mid-sized, stylish version of the Python - perhaps in keeping with their sea-creature naming scheme, call it a Manta.
I bet they could make a sexy-looking combat-oriented craft.
I bet they could make a sexy-looking combat-oriented craft.
Never mind the constrictor - I want the Boa http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Boa to make a comeback...
HUD colors that don't screw up every other color scheme? That'll be $4.99, please...
If you get one, I get a Space Abrams. Anything past the -A1 series is acceptable.
Please sir wheres the link so I can buy a few of them
A mate and myself were talking on discord the other night, and we came up with almost the same idea. In an ideal world, we would like each element of the gui to have a variable for its colour, and a paid for via the frontier store application to tweak them. Second best would be to simply hard code the values of the scanner colours (Red Hostile, Green Friendly etc...) and allow us to tweak the other colours with impunity. Third option we both found acceptable was buying HUD colour schemes from the store like paint jobs.