Ships Why im beginning to hate the Mandalay

Darrack

Darrack
Its just too good.
The past month ive taken her on a mini galactic inner (ish) circumnavigation, round Hawkings, past Drymans, across into Arcadian/Newtons and up to beagle.
Now ive past through Formorian, H Delta, Conduit and currently mapping some systems in Outer Arm.
Its too easy.

I haven't downgraded anything, have 2 SRVs, AMFU, repair limpets, the kitchen sink and it still does over 80LYs, ive landed on an 8G like it was Heathrow, the thing is just incredible.
So incredible its boring.

Im thinking of cutting the trip short, taking a break in Colonia and heading back to the bubble to grab my AspEx or even the Python, anything that actually makes it a little more exciting.

The Mandy, what a machine but .........

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TMStamp

TMStamp
This was actually my concern. Why are all the new "Odyssey" ships clearly boosted compared to the older fleet? Whether it's the crazy FSD ranges or the agility of the ships, it feels like it's incentivizing people to buy Odyssey at the expense of a balanced experience.

As a middle ground, players should be able to upgrade their "legacy" ship to what appears to be more advanced and newer FSD tech provided on these Odyssey ships at some in-game credit cost through some specific engineering service maybe like retrofitting, to make things plausible.

Am I missing something?
 

Tifu

Tifu
TMStamp said:
As a middle ground, players should be able to upgrade their "legacy" ship to what appears to be more advanced and newer FSD tech provided on these Odyssey ships at some in-game credit cost through some specific engineering service maybe like retrofitting, to make things plausible.

Am I missing something?
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Yes, the old ships were built around the legacy FSD drives sold by Sirius. That's why they have a hard time handling the new SCO drives (based on different Thargoid tech) by Achilles - also a different company. The pre-built ships were rearchitectured and redesigned from ground up to cope with the new drives.
 

Darrack

Darrack
Bigmaec said:
Still haven't flown a Mandy, how is the cockpit compared to AspX or Phantom?
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The view is limited, but i really like it as im a fan of the Mamba, if you want better views then its the Asp, Phantom or Luga.
Recently ive actually felt more comfortable in 'safer' feeling ship cockpits, really enjoyed my trip to Sag A* and Beagle last year in my Python.

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Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
I approve of explorers being tormented this way. Now, eat up the goodness!

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Darrack

Darrack
Tifu said:
Yes, the old ships were built around the legacy FSD drives sold by Sirius. That's why they have a hard time handling the new SCO drives (based on different Thargoid tech) by Achilles - also a different company. The pre-built ships were rearchitectured and redesigned from ground up to cope with the new drives.
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Would love them to stabilise the new SCO FSD on the older ships, one thing i have enjoyed about the Mandy is finding WWs/ELWs 200K+ Ls out and being able to get there fast, depending on time i may not have scanned those in the past.

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nemolomen

nemolomen
Darrack said:
Would love them to stabilise the new SCO FSD on the older ships, one thing i have enjoyed about the Mandy is finding WWs/ELWs 200K+ Ls out and being able to get there fast, depending on time i may not have scanned those in the past.

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I doubt they will "fix" the older ships' SCO FSD stabilization. There's no incentive for them to do it. The newer ships must be better.
 

Darrack

Darrack
nemolomen said:
I doubt they will "fix" the older ships' SCO FSD stabilization. There's no incentive for them to do it. The newer ships must be better.
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Yep completely understand, its progress, my modern Thunderbird is way better than my 1962 original one, but the classic just feels better to ride :ROFLMAO:

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FraggleRock

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Darrack said:
Would love them to stabilise the new SCO FSD on the older ships, one thing i have enjoyed about the Mandy is finding WWs/ELWs 200K+ Ls out and being able to get there fast, depending on time i may not have scanned those in the past.

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I think an extra module would be fun, a penalty to the old ships, but allowing the smooth SCO experience for those that want to pay that penalty.
 

sHuRuLuNi

sHuRuLuNi
Darrack said:
I haven't downgraded anything, have 2 SRVs, AMFU, repair limpets, the kitchen sink and it still does over 80LYs,
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How?
I removed the AFMU, limpets and everything, engineered all the rest to the MAX and still cannot get 70ly .... so how exactly are you getting 80 ly with all the default stuff?
 
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