they have already said the life support system will only be able to support so many people. it you go over that everyone will begin having a hard time breathing.
Then everyone should keep their space suits on, shouldn't they?
Unless they are going to limit EVA to five minutes or less, the life support argument makes no sense - everyone is wearing a self contained life support system.
EVA suits will not have unlimited air, maybe an hours worth I am guessing, they have not given us hard numbers yet.
Shadow Reaper
Space Marshal
There have been contradictory notes on using the max crew numbers to limit how many characters can be aboard and still fly the ship. Theoretically you could stand ten people in the back of an Avenger, but it is max crew 1. It has flown with two people aboard as is attested by the fact one has been boarded and had its NPC pilot killed by the boarder while in space. My guess is they are waiting to put the game mechanic in place and will take a fresh look at every ship's capabilities then. For now the only safe bet is to plan to use dedicated boarding craft for boarding.
So if you have a max of 6, you can support 12 for 2 hours if you split them in to two groups and get the first to drain their tanks while the second lives off ship support, and then swap over to the other team when they are empty. If you can't reach your target in two hours it's probably too far away for online play, your boarding party would be kicked for inactivity after 15 minutes... Even if the EVA tank is 15 minutes that's 30 mins to get to the drop point...
To Testies a prowler is simply a mobile barfatorium, which according the Keg of Truth makes it a sacred vehicle
KiwiB1rd
Space Marshal
I'm not the stealthiest of people and as has already been pointed out the redeemer isn't the ideal dropship, so I am hoping the Vanguard Hoplite will bridge the gap between the two
Grimm_Reaper
Space Marshal
One thing Ben has mentioned earlier is that there is going to be no ship that is invisible or not seen on radar. Stealth ships differ in the sense that they have much smaller sigs and are difficult to keep track of. So they can shake of missiles more easily. This being said the hoplite or Reedemer is a better option. If the enemy has packed anti ship ground weapons simply go in with a Polaris, S10 torp the shit out or forts and installments and then release 15-20 ground troops to clean up.
thanatos73
Space Marshal
Neither....... Cutlass!!!!!!
JK. Prowler, it's side doors get boots on the ground fast. Look at today's helicopters, the Blackhawk for instance, side doors.
JK. Prowler, it's side doors get boots on the ground fast. Look at today's helicopters, the Blackhawk for instance, side doors.
Speedkills
Admiral
I must have missed it, but did the Cutlass Blue get side doors to drop personnel or board other ships too?
thanatos73
Space Marshal
Huegpaynis
Space Marshal
So, the way I look at it, each one has its place. Do they know you're coming? Do you need on-station fire support? If so, you're probably better off with the Redeemer; it's heavier armament and beefier shielding make it mean in hostile airspace.
Conversely, if you need to be quiet, don't need fire support, or the threats are only in one direction, the prowler's low sig and heavy directional shields are a big plus. Ultimately, I'd say it would boil down to the nature of the insertion and the conditions on the ground that will dictate which ship would serve best.
The way i would fix this is simply oxygen
Imagine you stick 50 people on a connie
That ship is made for about what 5 people? you would stress the oxygen system so much with 50 people using it up
The way around that then is everyone takes a dedicated oxygen supply and breathes through that,
This hopefully will use up equipment slots to balance it
Shadow Reaper
Space Marshal
Indeed, if CIG stipulated that the reason you cannot put 50 people in a ship designed for 4 was that the life support could not manage, you would just have all your marines using their armors' life support. That's not what CIG has said. What they have said is you can't put 50 people in your connie.
Try to keep in mind CIG has very carefully avoided designing and building ships that have too many uses, because they want us all to pay for multiple ships.
hhmmmm belive they have said something about life support before being an issue and trying to find the source maybe a 10 for the chairmen but not 100%
I imagine they will do other things like make a connie drop ship bay or something along those lines
So you can do it with whatever you want just need to spend time and resources on it.
I would be okay with this considering they want to make all ships modular
I mean the cutlass blue for example has a few cells in it 4-6 maybe? i cant remember
so you will be able to get more people in that than the standard 2-3 it should normally take
Or the connie and a ursa rover
Can we stick people in there and use its oxygen?
until we know more on the mechanics of this its very hard to say what would be acceptable numbers for ships then on top of that systems in place to make ships better at it