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bigmike20vt said:
it's any ship with a ship launch hangar . to be fair to FD if the phantom had the hangar bay then there would not be much separating the MK2 from the phantom. lore wise it is probably the main reason why the ship has less mass than the MK2 (they were both made back when FD tried to consider ship balance)

I have never tried it in all honesty but if you like the look of the krait maybe you could strip down a MK2 , put in a guardian range extender thingie and get a nomad in that for exploration.
it won't have quite the range of the phantom but may be ok.
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The phantom was the exploration version of the Krait MKII so it just highlights the absolute mess FD are making to ship balance lol. I've already got both variants with complete or near complete engineering and have used them both a lot but these days I dislike using older ships that aren't SCO optimised oddly enough.
 
Noxia said:
I’ve read a few meltdowns about it. I even took the time to write them down on one of the Virpil blank pdf things which I can of course reference easily when in vr or flat.
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ED COpilot keeps a backup every time you change something. Worth it for that alone, possibly, but definitely if you use it w/ the profanity module active :-D
 
I guess I don't mind it in principle however for me elites legacy is as much why I play it as anything .
personally if FD wants to bring in new ships I would rather them bring in other ships which already exist in elite lore

add to that rather than making the anaconda and all the other ships obsolete I would rather them do what they did with the cobra and python and bring out new versions of those ships...

that said its not a hill am gonna die on, it just feels less like elite if am not flying elite ships. (much like a star wars space game need TIE fighters

also if we get to fly these amazing ships objectively better in all aspects... the NPC's need them too
 
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While it disappoints me I do find it more amusing than anything, after all the years of striving to keep ships somewhat balanced it got thrown out of the window when they realised they could make money with them, if it keeps the servers running and updates coming I'm okay with it but it doesn't make it any less disappointing, much like the income creep (creep is definitely underselling it lol) over the years :cry:
 
I recently got back into the game and have the mandalay for exploring.. But which ship is the best end-game for carrying passengers? And how would I work it out without buying them all?
 
toString said:
I recently got back into the game and have the mandalay for exploring.. But which ship is the best end-game for carrying passengers? And how would I work it out without buying them all?
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by an absolute country mile the lynx high liner

also not sure it still is but you used to be able to get it for completely free as in zero ARX from the frontier store.

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Thanks! Picked it up as it's free. Didn't realise there were any free ships!
But I'm a bit confused bigmike that you say it's the best. As on that coriolis site it shows 150 pax but there's plenty above it which are larger..

Although having said that.. If I want SCO then it's only the Caspian and Panther 2 that fit the bill.. And they are crazy expensive. So maybe you're right this is the best ship for the job lol
 
Nice, though that can wait until it cools down a bit lol... Lave Radio allegedly said that NPC's are getting the new ships in next weeks update as well :)
 
Dano said:
Nice, though that can wait until it cools down a bit lol... Lave Radio allegedly said that NPC's are getting the new ships in next weeks update as well :)
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Weird they don't add them to the spawn list right away. I remember when they were releasing them in alpha/beta they were appearing quite quickly.
 
ED has always made odd decisions when it comes to ship design and it seems they are doing it again wiht this new generation. It does look as if they are making the new ships so good that they want everyone to move to them and drop the old ones.
 
Hey all , i am seeing a nice reduction on this in the steam sale. How is this game holding up ? Do you think its worth a purchase ? It is coming in well under a tenner ( cant remember price offhand ) for ED and Odyssey together.
 
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