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Oh dear, here comes another cm4 thread....
It's cool. Everyone should get one free now, right?
Any excuse to post this beauty...
(I don't fly this much, it's not very practical. But it makes for lovely screenshots.)
(I don't fly this much, it's not very practical. But it makes for lovely screenshots.)
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I would totally buy that. Wasn't it a limited offer kind of thing? Shame if so.
The white wireframe Cobra was a strict limited edition for the 35th 30th anniversary. Further white wireframes for the Anaconda, Asp, Viper, Fer-de-lance and Python came out for Christmas 2016 and I think those were also strict one-offs but I could be wrong on that.
Gold versions of the wireframes for all five ships were part of the Christmas 2017 promotion, and a gold Sidewinder was part of Christmas 2018. If memory serves these were limited runs rather than strict limited editions and so they may have had a subsequent re-release and there's a chance they could return. But don't quote me on that, because my recollection isn't what it once was. We'd need input from someone who bought them at a time other than Christmas 2017/18 to be sure.
Gold versions of the wireframes for all five ships were part of the Christmas 2017 promotion, and a gold Sidewinder was part of Christmas 2018. If memory serves these were limited runs rather than strict limited editions and so they may have had a subsequent re-release and there's a chance they could return. But don't quote me on that, because my recollection isn't what it once was. We'd need input from someone who bought them at a time other than Christmas 2017/18 to be sure.
(Edit: 30th anniversary, not 35th. 2014. Got that from a Wiki and it didn't seem right when I was typing it.)
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30th Anniversary.
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I'm totally quoting you on that right now
Yeah I remember the ones on sale last year but didn't really like them that much. The one you have is perfect... really hope they appear again some day.
Lovely shotAny excuse to post this beauty...
(I don't fly this much, it's not very practical. But it makes for lovely screenshots.)
But.
Not practical!?! The backbone of space faring civivlisation is not practical!
Pah.
A thargoid once said the same thing:
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They would have been real sellers on their store.
It was, but it was also £10 if I remember rightly. Many couldn't justify the cost, and some regretted it later.
ps. One thing I loved about this paintjob that was missing on later ones was that they did the top and bottom properly, never mind that the python wireframe was wrong.
pps. I wouldn't mind if it was sold again, seems a shame that something that looks that good can't be more widely available.
Where's the free self-entitled wireframe paint job for my Cobra IV ?
I am really hoping that the wireframe paint jobs make a comeback, as they were before I started playing. I am hopeful that they may be available again when they update the store next month.
You would think that after spending £120 for the LEP and basically getting just one season's DLC, things like the Xmas specials; would have been thrown in for free.Where's the free self-entitled wireframe paint job for my Cobra IV ?
I missed the white frame, but got the Gold one last year.
Here some images on the fly.
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According to the timestamps I'd corrected that nit while you were still picking it.30th Anniversary.
I had it in my head it was a more eye-watering £15 rather than a merely breathtaking £10 but having checked it was indeed a tenner. Maybe I inflated it in my head so the £10 wouldn't look so horrific on the credit card statement.
I kitted it out as close as possible to its 8-bit forebear, so if memory serves it has twin burst lasers (closest to the visuals of BBC Elite), 4 torpedoes, an ECM, 34T of cargo space, a below-optimum FSD and a shield booster in lieu of the "extra energy unit" that could be fitted to the '84 Cobra. No Engineering. The one concession to 30 years of progress was a single SRV bay and ADS.
The last time I flew it, it could just about hold its own against one or two low-tier NPC pirates. Anything else and all it could do was run away. Although now I come to think of it there have been some additional slots given to most ships and the ADS is integrated, so there may be room in there for a small fuel scoop which would extend its usefulness a bit. Fuel scooping was something I rarely did in classic Elite. Maybe I should give this old build another sortie. She's never been to Sol, which is something you couldn't do in Acornsoft Elite (although it was mentioned in the novella) so maybe I'll do that.
Night vision mode has echoes of vintage Elite, I always find.