[Video] Mercury Star Runner sale
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Info from the ship pledge page
Focus: Medium Cargo/Medium Data
Description: The Mercury checks all the boxes expected of a dependable courier vessel, and then some. If you need it there fast and unscathed, you can’t do better than the Mercury. Built with the same engineering and design principals that has made Crusader the go-to manufacturer for galactic transport on any scale, the star runner chassis sets new standards for data and cargo conveyance.
Length 40m
Beam 38m
Height 11.6m
215 m/s SCM speed
1,050 m/s afterburner
min crew 2
max crew 3
Cargo 96 SCU
Radar M
Computers 5xM
Power Plant - 2xM
Cooler - 2xM
Shield Generator - 2xM
Light Armor
Fuel Intake - 2xM
Fuel Tank - 2xM
Quantum Drive - M
Jump Module - M
Quantum Fuel Tank - 2xM
Weapon - 2xS3 (S2 laser repeaters installed)
Turret - 2 mounts, each with 2xS2 laser repeaters installed
Missiles - 2 racks, each with 2 S1 missiles
4 VTOL, 4 Retro, 3 Main thrusters
8 Gimbaled and 4 fixed Mavs
Summary: A slightly bigger than freelancer sized ship (mostly wider) that can hold as much cargo as a Connie Andromeda, plus can also run data as well. Good for the duo and small group, plus maybe some solo work. Not super fast, but decent for it's size.
Focus: Medium Cargo/Medium Data
Description: The Mercury checks all the boxes expected of a dependable courier vessel, and then some. If you need it there fast and unscathed, you can’t do better than the Mercury. Built with the same engineering and design principals that has made Crusader the go-to manufacturer for galactic transport on any scale, the star runner chassis sets new standards for data and cargo conveyance.
Length 40m
Beam 38m
Height 11.6m
215 m/s SCM speed
1,050 m/s afterburner
min crew 2
max crew 3
Cargo 96 SCU
Radar M
Computers 5xM
Power Plant - 2xM
Cooler - 2xM
Shield Generator - 2xM
Light Armor
Fuel Intake - 2xM
Fuel Tank - 2xM
Quantum Drive - M
Jump Module - M
Quantum Fuel Tank - 2xM
Weapon - 2xS3 (S2 laser repeaters installed)
Turret - 2 mounts, each with 2xS2 laser repeaters installed
Missiles - 2 racks, each with 2 S1 missiles
4 VTOL, 4 Retro, 3 Main thrusters
8 Gimbaled and 4 fixed Mavs
Summary: A slightly bigger than freelancer sized ship (mostly wider) that can hold as much cargo as a Connie Andromeda, plus can also run data as well. Good for the duo and small group, plus maybe some solo work. Not super fast, but decent for it's size.
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Did you guys notice this ship doesn't come with a model or poster?
Melted my Titan, 135c, Beta and threw a few more bucks at CIG to upgrade my Tumblir RN to the Mercury. Look! I got fewer ships now! See? I SAVED money....sorta....kinda. Okay, yeah, I didn't.
Speedkills
Admiral
“Will the servers on the Mercury be able to run Star Citizen at a decent frame rate in the game... that is the meta question of the day.” Hilarious.
Also funny that when you were creating this video I was posting on the other thread asking how I can fly a ship without struts.
Also funny that when you were creating this video I was posting on the other thread asking how I can fly a ship without struts.
I upgraded my Hurricane to a Star Runner. This hits the spot for me. Prior to this ship, there really wasn't anything there. You had the Freelancer and Cutlass, but they were too small. You had the Connie, but that never really felt right. Some of the bigger ships might have fit the role, but they were too big and specialized.
Nothing seemed to be specifically designed to fill the role of the "Firefly" or "Millennium Falcon". Nothing really fit in the category of fast, not to big, not too small, low crew requirement, swiss army knife of the spaceship selection. This one hits the sweet spot and has character to boot. I think it has a ton more character than it's main counterpart, the Connie. It looks like that's exactly what they intended it to be as well. Even in the "Ship Shape" episode they were making comparisons to the millennium falcon.
Nothing seemed to be specifically designed to fill the role of the "Firefly" or "Millennium Falcon". Nothing really fit in the category of fast, not to big, not too small, low crew requirement, swiss army knife of the spaceship selection. This one hits the sweet spot and has character to boot. I think it has a ton more character than it's main counterpart, the Connie. It looks like that's exactly what they intended it to be as well. Even in the "Ship Shape" episode they were making comparisons to the millennium falcon.
Radegast74
Space Marshal
From the fine print:
"*Wookie not included"
"*Wookie not included"
Crimsontarget
Captain
Wanted to do a 0 CCU from hoplite. I couldn't. So melted the hoplite and did a buyback on an X1 for LTI. Cost me 30 odd quid which I'm not happy about. But there she is my Mercury, oh and more store credit. She is a pretty thing.
They say it is FAST.........
My 315P is FASTER and it is an Exploration ship with better weapons...........
I report, You decide.
My 315P is FASTER and it is an Exploration ship with better weapons...........
I report, You decide.
Well, to be fair, it is faster than ships of similar size.
I quite literally want to melt my fleet and run only this ship.
I know the feeling, I was thinking that also. I mean, can only fly one at a time right?
Exactly. I just posted a thread to that effect. I was reset last fall after I refunded my fleet, but I got all hot and bothered to rebuild, and have done so very well. But I find I don't want it. Not at all. I just want to play the game, to earn, explore, adventure.
So I'm trying to divest. All of it. Well, most of it.
Thank you, Glorious Leader!
I think as the Aurora is 50% Struts TEST should be demanding struts on every ship. Mustang? No. Not enough struts.
I think as the Aurora is 50% Struts TEST should be demanding struts on every ship. Mustang? No. Not enough struts.
Heh, I am DOWN TO just the Entrepreneur Pack and the UEE Explorer 2948 Pack, which I have CCU'd a few vehicles to ships in each. These are the two packages I am going to be running so I can have one extra crewman/heir.
I figure the other 9 ships I won't be using, will be available to the rest of the Org to use, so folks can have a bit of variety.
Though, I am still trying to hold to a Exploration/Mining niche.
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And I'm down to the UEE Explored 2948, plus 4 additional ships. Honestly, 3 ships is the number. That's it. That's what I want. The Polaris because I spent so long earning her; the Raven, because she can't be traded or melted; and a Mercury, because that be my everyday ship, my home.
The more I look at the Mercury, the more I feel its the single most useful solo-able ship in the game.