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Any reason to keep a Cutlass Red after picking up one of these?
 

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Any reason to keep a Cutlass Red after picking up one of these?
Plenty I'll say.
Leaving a side the single player use of a medical ship as the sole purpose of a respawn point, the Terraping is not a CuttyRed competitor but more of a Piscies upgrade step.

First of all the Red have 2 T2 bed instead of one, then it has more crew, a full living quarter amenities, and weapons rack.
But the most important things the Cuttlas have over the Terrapin are the docking collar tha tallow you to dock to other ships, and the ability to enter/exit the ship WITHOUT venting all the air in the medical room.
Those are both gameplay aspect that are not really in use since a) room air is not in game yet , and b) there is no rally medial profession yet, but in the future the ability to treat two person at the same time and not have one suffocate when your medial team is exiting the ship will be a good advantage, especially if you are doing that as a profession since a dead patient is unlikely to pay you.

Plus the Cutlass Red still have 4xS3 weapons VS the 2x S2 of the Terrapin... you know, just in case.


On the other hand if you have the Pisces the Terrapin could be a good step up.
 

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Red has 2 Medical beds, more and better weapons, crew accommodations, 12 scu cargo grid, can carry an STV or hoverbike.
The question is therefore a little misguided. The Terrapin is in no way any competition to the vastly superior Cutlass platform.
It competes with the C8R at best, and even there, I still can't see any tangible advantage for the turtle.
Only 1 medical bed, no bed logging, no cargo grid, can't transport a ground vehicle, is nothing more than a mobile respawn point for bunkers and caves.
Just like the C8R.
 
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On the other hand if you have the Pisces the Terrapin could be a good step up.
Aye, this is the conclusion I was getting to as well. Maybe keep the Cutlass Red and upgrade the Pisces to a Terrapin Medical.

Red has 2 Medical beds, more and better weapons, crew accommodations, 12 scu cargo grid, can carry an STV or hoverbike.
Yeah, the Red seems more like an all around ship, so was wondering how the Terrapin Medical would be perceived.

The question is therefore a little misguided.
I asked the question simply to generate dialog around the new ship. Looks like it was successful :-)
 

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I asked the question simply to generate dialog around the new ship. Looks like it was successful :-)
True that, what I meant by "misguided" was less the question itself and more the target of the comparison, the Red Turtle being more on par with the C8R than the Redlass ;)
 

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It's very disappointing, vast waste of interior space, no seats no cargo grid no weapon or suit storage.

I like turkles

But I won't be getting this one.
 
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I got some store credit saved up and a C8R that I was planning on turtling, but as I still don't know in what way the Turtle is supposed to be of higher value, gameplay wise, I don't think I can justify an upgrade. Or sidegrade.
Only reason for the Turtle so far is nostalgia, I was flying a turtle during the first ever Pyro tech preview I had access to.
 
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