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Also, it is pretty great as standard equipped. Certainly you can custom it for minor improvements, but all the guts are completely usable (I don't know another ship i would not modify) so if it gets all blowed up, it costs nothing to replace so long as you have insurance. That's a key economic...

I honestly don't know. I'm interested in it because as I said, it may be the ideal stealth recon spotter for the Polaris' torpedoes. If you can drift silently through a sector doing a passive scan, and stop to keep a target wet, then the Polaris can eliminate it from outside detection range...

I'm really interested in the EX, with stealth enabled (yes, it does work) but this is a decent vid of the wrong way to fly that bird. Smacks of a Mustang pretending its a Hornet--the guy doesn't ever fly defensive! One thing, the cockpit is a little blind forward. If you're in a fight and...

TEST pirate wench: you can see she's wearing our colors, though beer sodden as they are.

I am still intrigued by the option of loading an Absolution Distortion Scattergun fixed on the nose of the Vanguards. All the 'Guards are most vulnerable at close range where a true dogfighter can use its agility to get away from the Vanguard's nose, but the scattergun fires across an arc, and...

I think there will be many of us like this. I haven't been able to schedule cooperative playtime since Asheron's Call back in the 90's (apart from the pool I play with the guys at church every other Friday night.) I think though, that there are a couple things that really work for scheduled...

I think of it less like a heavy fighter than as a Fighter-Bomber, meaning less like an F14 than an FB111. Very few fighters carry S3 missiles, and IIRC, all of the Vanguards can carry 2 of them (not counting the internal S5 bays of the Harbinger.) That means they can destroy many targets before...

Oh no, they had the same debate when the Hoplite debuted, and they had had it previously with the Tali when they added a modular version to the original bomber (I think they relented and added plates?) and afterward with the Prowler and the Terrapin. Every time a military design that has room...

One suspects there are many parts of exploration you simply won't be able to participate in with a small ship. We don't really know, but that would be in general keeping with the philosphy of most online games, that those who collaborate best with others really obtain much more power and...

The Lancer is the largest ship that can fit through a sall wormhole, but it is a medium class ship. Is on the shjps' page.

Okay. Believe what you like, but tell me; why do you think they refuse to put cargo plates in so many ships?

Hey look, it's not my statement. You can do a search. Chris and the devs have said this many times. The discussion is not meant to be concerning "multi-role". The original question (forgive if I confused it) is "general purpose". There are no general purpose ships in SC. You can find a...

Touche, and you could make the same argument for the Carrack, but note you are still swapping out modules to create different variants. Sans this, it would not be multi-role. You can call the Battlefield Upgrade Kit something similar, but in that case you are actually swapping the ship instead...

I think you'd be much better off not characterizing any ship as "multi-purpose". CIG has said officially many times there are no multi-purpose ships. The game is designed specifically to avoid multi-purpose ships. If it had multi-purpose ships everyone would buy just one ship. What you're...

All explorers have big fuel tanks and upscale scan. The Corsair is one of those. The Cutty is not and only one of the Lancers is. The Avenger does not have an explorer class variant. The 300 and Reliant do, and they are called that becasue they have upscale scan and fuel tanks. The only...

I could not have said it better myself. What do we care it has so many guns if when you try to use them you get your ass shot off? That's why I lost interest in the 600i. It's just a flying target, and way too easy too hit. If I am doing exploration, I want a ship that can defend itself; and...

Has anyone tried to use their gimbals to giude their fixed guns? Say on the Sabre, can you use the autotargeting to guide your flghter so all 4 guns come on target? Does the display actually tell you where in the box the gimbals are pointing?

This ship is really growing on me. I can't believe no one asked about its speed and maneuverability as compared to the Connie and Mercury. Makes me think they were dev written questions. The players aren't really so stupid they wouldn't ask, are they? If this thing rotates like a Connie (25...

Trust me, you want to read this very badly...

That is essentially correct. Smaller ships run "picket" just as soldiers on the battlefield do--to warn of the enemy's approach and also to intercept incoming torpedoes and fighters. Corvettes often do this. The thing with corvette class ships (and they're often called other tings, like...