You Are Going To Need A Materials Collection Ship.

kofeyh

kofeyh
Ralph Vargr said:
We will still need to collect materials. Even if you believe you can do so randomly with your current loadout. :)
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I have now evacuated all class 1,2 materials and am collecting class 3,4,5 exclusively. Intent is to carry as close to 50 of every very rare I can. And large amounts of 3,4 as well. The materials trading is entirely broken, but since this is going in, as is, I'm pretty sure I can re-roll the handful of stuff I care about with that and have a bit left over. I will start evacuating class 3, for holding class 4 and 5 if I happen to have kindly RNG occur.

A handful of hardpoints; but mostly some internals and I am 100% done. And can move on to more rewarding (well, relatively speaking) aspects. Sandy can change engineering as much as he desires, eventually most everyone will stop caring and move on. Post 3.0; I will be.
 
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Captain Willard

Captain Willard
kofeyh said:
Orca.

Great range, good internals (you can use the locked slots for cargo) and fast, even with D rated modules. Decent shields. And it's a dream to fly in SC, as well as planetary due to very good thrusters. Not overly cheap, but the space lexus wouldn't be, now would it. ;)
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Figgers. It's a toyota.
 

[VR] Enexemander

[VR] Enexemander
I use an Adder called "Dad's Van" when I specifically go out for materials (kinda rare TBH). It amuses me. I like flying the smaller ships. The Adder is the first ship I bought myself, so it has nostalgia value.
 

GraXXoR

GraXXoR
Ralph Vargr said:
You will need a frame wake scanner, a collector limpet controller, cargo hold for limpets, and maybe an SRV.

This means ships with lots of slots, and lots of utility mounts.

Cobra 4 and Python are obvious choices. What's yours?
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Mine is a Cobra 4, I call The Harvester. It’s small and can land on the rockiest planets and has wake scanner advanced discovery and surface scanner SRV, collector limpets and a refinery.

It doesn’t need lots of utility mounts because there is nothing to mount in them. I have wake scanner and chaff. I would like a PD turret, too but hey-ho.

IMO the Cobra MK IV is the most versatile small ship in the game. My new commander Rick Sanchez only flies small ships (and the Keelback as an SLF wrapper) so this is perfect.

Rick also does well in the CGs with it, getting him in the 75% bracket for CGs means multiple million credit payouts for next to no work. Which, when you’re eschewing medium and large ships is a real windfall!

“Tagging” ships that the security are taking out nets him decent bounty payments, too.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Captain Willard said:
Figgers. It's a toyota.
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A Toyota!? [mad]

Personally, I'd say a contemporary equivalent of the Orca would be more like one of these:-
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Sad thing is, my Orca is currently parked-up, doing nothing, because I can't bring myself to do anything "menial" with it but there's nothing suitably "high class" that's worth doing with it either.

I'm just waiting until FDev create "Spa" and "Casino" modules and interplanetary booze-cruise missions.
 

Darty

Darty
CMDR Brax said:
Just finished engineering a type 7 for this exact purpose. Reading the notes from some guys in beta, I saw that material drops have gone from three per pickup to one. Figured the writing was on the wall. On the plus side, I'll finally have a reason to take the ship out of dock every now and again.
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I've played both versions of the beta and I got drops of 3. Don't worry about it.
 

kofeyh

kofeyh
Stealthie said:
A Toyota!? [mad]

Personally, I'd say a contemporary equivalent of the Orca would be more like one of these:-
http://www.sunseekerbrokerage.com/a...154_20170302065934895_1_XLARGE-33-600x380.jpg

Sad thing is, my Orca is currently parked-up, doing nothing, because I can't bring myself to do anything "menial" with it but there's nothing suitably "high class" that's worth doing with it either.

I'm just waiting until FDev create "Spa" and "Casino" modules and interplanetary booze-cruise missions.
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Orca was built for one purpose, friend, to be driven. It is an exceptional tourer. What is the point of having an opulent space yacht, if it is not used? Come now. Slide into that decadence, and push the throttles forward. You know you want to..
 

kofeyh

kofeyh
GraXXoR said:
Mine is a Cobra 4, I call The Harvester. It’s small and can land on the rockiest planets and has wake scanner advanced discovery and surface scanner SRV, collector limpets and a refinery.
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I would have had little issue with the Cobra MkIV if it had similar range to it's sibling. The jump range, even engineered is sad making. And yes, for prospecting and materials collection, it's otherwise quite snazzy. That jump range though; aye kurumba.
 

GraXXoR

GraXXoR
kofeyh said:
Orca was built for one purpose, friend, to be driven. It is an exceptional tourer. What is the point of having an opulent space yacht, if it is not used? Come now. Slide into that decadence, and push the throttles forward. You know you want to..
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Goddamnit.... I now feel the need to buy one... I was put off after the lumbering failure that is the Beluga.
 

kofeyh

kofeyh
Enexemander said:
I use an Adder called "Dad's Van" when I specifically go out for materials (kinda rare TBH). It amuses me. I like flying the smaller ships. The Adder is the first ship I bought myself, so it has nostalgia value.
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Just, uh, don't drive the van with the tactical ice paint-job past schools when swinging past outposts. It's not.. a good message to send, really, cruising past in a white van. Ixnay on the itewhay anvay.

GraXXoR said:
Goddamnit.... I now feel the need to buy one... I was put off after the lumbering failure that is the Beluga.
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Lumbering, is not a valid adjective for Orca. Not at 550m/s or so. It's handling is.. surprising for a large ship; and it has very strong yaw. It is beta, now, sir, time to buy and drive the Orca (and then pretty much ruin yourself for anything else). ;)
 
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Stealthie

Stealthie
kofeyh said:
Orca was built for one purpose, friend, to be driven. It is an exceptional tourer. What is the point of having an opulent space yacht, if it is not used? Come now. Slide into that decadence, and push the throttles forward. You know you want to..
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I know it's the age-old moan but, I'd seriously consider using an Orca as my "daily driver" if it was a medium-pad ship - sort of a luxury version of the Python.

As it is, I'm more of a "white van man".
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Stealthie

Stealthie
kofeyh said:
.. there's just no accounting for taste. ;)
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Well, in my case, I'd already bought the AspS and G5-modded the core-internals, in a bid to try and make it useful and it was still just sat there so it was nice to find something useful to do with it.

It doesn't have the jump-range of a DBX or the slots of an AspX so it wasn't going to replace either of those ships.

It does have a pretty good jump-range, though, it's got a PP powerful enough to let you keep a 0A wake-scanner on-line all the time, it's pretty agile so it's perfect for chasing wakes, it's good at cargo-scooping, it's small enough to land on uneven terrain, it's cheap and it's got a decent fuel-range too.

About the only way it's better than an AspX or a DBX might be in terms of agility but, even though it isn't as good in any other way, it's fairly well suited to the job. [up]
 
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