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Why would you want a turret instead of an escort? Seems the escort is much harder to hit. Much less useful though if it can't fit into the 400i cargo bay, and I don't think it does. That bay has been too small for all sorts of things, all to fit escape pods no one wants. That is the most...

Some of the confusion here may be from our failure to stipulate terms. Could be we’re equivocating to some degree. NPCs are purchased when we buy accounts. Once they die a sufficient number of times they will “retire” and you’ll no longer be able to play them, but like ships they’re a...

Obviously there is some confusion here. Tell me, if the NPC of an account dies, what happens to the account? Account NPCs are actually PCs that aren't being "manned' at present, but can be manned in the future, so how could they die?

Yeah. Thumb-typo.

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There are conflicting reports as to whether the “”NPC Pilots” and “NPC Escorts” we’ve been promised will be able to fly player ships. They may be restricted to flying their own ships. No way to know yet. It does appear at present that player owned NPCs (NPCs from alt accounts) will be able to...

I think people are discounting the coolness factor of a bubble fighter. How much does CIG get for the Razor? I get the objections to it but I think if they charged $150 for the Fury certainly thousands of players would buy it. I wouldn’t, but I’d save in game for one. We’ll have to wait and...

I’m not sure how that would work. If you get the slowest of torps within 2 km or so, there isn’t much in game thus far that could get on a fresh target in the few seconds left and kill it. The real trouble is in jumping with enough precision to land 2km short of your target. That would take jump...

They’re listed as pulling 18 gees. By way of comparison, I think the Arrow pulls 13 and the Arrow is hard to hit because of this combined with its small silhouette. This is half the size of an Arrow. This thing is going to be VERY hard to hit and will outturn everything. With a good pilot it...

We don’t know yet if it can be maneuvered without wings deployed. If not, it will be impossible to fit in many ships the Ursa fits in.

Just keep in mind that there will always be a limit to how many ships can participate in any action. If CIG sets it at 50/side, best is optimize by going for larger ships and crews. So there are limits to the utility of such a tiny ship. Also keep in mind that the Razor is not much bigger. If...

I think had they given it a Q drive, no one would buy or fly anything else. It's half the target size of an arrow and pulls twice the gees of a Gladius. 60% more gees than the Razor nd Arrow. For carried fighter looks like the new meta. You will have the danger of leaving your spotters behind...

Or the MIS? I always look on in wonder at the MIS, as maybe the only true combat ship with more beds than it needs. I always wonder about it as a special opportunity. It's very annoying that CIG locked down the dorsal turret as it gets in the way of so much, but it might not get in the way of...

Little hot but the stealth switch should knock that down to about 4k. Not bad at all. The EM is silly low. https://www.erkul.games/loadout/NEOxBbNW

How many will fit in the Hercules? Will they fit those weird triangle cargo pods on the Railen?

Super useful if it’s that tiny but includes a Q drive. Without one, not so much. Moving a carrier within striking distance of a short range fighter with an Atlas drive leaves the carrier relatively safe. If a carrier has ships with no drive, it needs to put its nose right in the nasty. Without...

Apparently there will be a bomber variant as well, so this is looking like the Talon. This guy is guessing no Q drive. That could be. . . View: https://youtu.be/GX1Yiwl6IuA

I have always loved the whole Bubble Fighter design as seen in Lost In Space, Oblivion and especially Cowboy Bebop. I would not be surprised if it has 4 S2, and comes in under $100. Certainly CIG could get more but this is competing with the Arrow. My guess is it totally lacks handling in...

The only variability I recall about insurance was whether places like Grimhex would supply insurance for pirated ships at hugely inflated prices. I don’t even know how many years ago we switched to include insuring non-stock items. That was not however the original activity. IIRC, it was only...

I can't honestly say whether it will create more troubles than we can manage or not, but certainly it will cause huge problems. The one thing I can say is that we have to see these things come into game sometime, and without CIG's sense of what will be implemented when, its really hard to say...