Will we ever fly a Thargoid ship or a Panther Clipper?

[Hooplah]

Greetings,

Maybe not. Flying a Thargoid Warship was possible in Frontier: First Encounters after completing extensive handcoded missions. It had more bugs than a hot summer day in a Florida swamp and took players to edit the code and make it possible. Even then the specifications were awful flying it in the game. IN ED handcoded missions have been replaced with softer Community Goals which are not being all that programmed at the moment. Still there were ED CGs in the past where after participating a player could purchase an Imperial Clipper at 25 percent off. The CG was designed to assist the player to have the Imperial rank to do this.

With the release of fleet carriers with 25,000 capacity we may never see the Panther Clipper. Maybe per current ED design it won't fit in an orbiting station holding more than a Type-9. Still I love the rotating engine nacelles so we'll have to fly Keelbacks and the Alliance series ships having these abilities. It's an emotional thing for past players.

For me the fleet carriers are a brilliant upgrade to the Long Range Cruiser and the Lynx Bulk Carrier in FFE that players could not normally fly without editing the code. Even then they were not much use only flying them around at slow speeds.

Meanwhile...Did Colin De Rouin ever fly a Panther Clipper in Frontier: Elite II? He was the art director for the TV series 'Firefly'.

Regards

 

[Riverside]

With the release of carriers if anything there is more of a use case for a huge hauler than there was before

I see a flyable Thargoid vessel as more of a nice to have, it could be done kind of thing, but if it were added I'm confident it would quickly become essential equipment for many combat players, I'm not sure the game would be better for that. Still, it could be done & would be fun

 

[Hooplah]

I welcome other comments and suggestions on this thread maybe having the Devs consider a player flying a Thargoid ship and a Panther Clipper. I mean what were all those 'Love Thargoid' decals on the ED Store about? Putting one of them on your ship and meeting them doesn't seem to matter a lot with them...

 

[Cmdr Ultra]

The data mining that was done on Elite suggests that both will happen.

 

[Marklar_]

I imagine there would be an avalanche of salt if players got a 'goid ship and it became the new PvP meta. I'm not sure if that would make it a terrible idea or a great idea.

There's never been a better time for a Panther Clipper, a huge cargo ship that can land on a carrier would be perfect for the new carrier-based trading gameplay.

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

I was hoping for hybrid human/guardian tech ships, but it seems the three SLFs is as far as it goes.

 

[Hooplah]

I was hoping for hybrid human/guardian tech ships, but it seems the three SLFs is as far as it goes.

Still useless going against major Thargoid ships the dedicated ships are pretty in the battle.

 

[Sapyx]

I think "flying a Thargoid ship" is going to be impractical; but some kind of "stolen Thargoid tech" modules such as weapons or an ultra-long-range hyperdrive might be possible.

 

[Drelthar]

The data mining that was done on Elite suggests that both will happen.

Tell me more...

 

[House0fDerp]

I'd just love to know how the Panther Clipper went from coming soon(tm) to "Lets stop acknowledging we ever talked about it."

 

[gorankar]

I think "flying a Thargoid ship" is going to be impractical; but some kind of "stolen Thargoid tech" modules such as weapons or an ultra-long-range hyperdrive might be possible.

I want the high wake interdiction tech they have, and the lightning gun.