RSI Mantis Thread - Tuesday update posted - New Pics and Article inside, Page 10
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High five. The outline of it doesn't look all that great either.
It doesn't to me either, at least not the profile. The engines especially. Now to be fair we haven't seen it in 3d, just a shadow with sparkly colors. But it feels like they're trying to play a game, and I'd rather they finish writing one first.
i agree with alot of testies, the more they are playing the teasing game the less i m looking forward this ship
Well hopefully this is a lesson learnt for them for s42... It's no good them spending $46 million on a bunch of month long teaser reveals if 2 million backers say "Just launch the damned game already!". How they market S42 could very much hinge on how they can get their 2 million existing customers on board as much as it is about bringing new interest in from outside the community, we've all waited more than long enough without having a hype machine kick us in the balls for another 6 to 8 months.
I am team Roxanne, who is with me? Who is team red light? Remember the rules: one shot of hard liquor for every mention of your team name.
Crimsontarget
Captain
Yesterday was the RSI Roxanne now it's the RSI Sauron.
AccidentProne8
Space Marshal
Looks awesome - no lie, I dig it. Kind of wish it was a heavy fighter instead of the interdictor it's looking to be.
Side note: Tomorrow does the bubble expand again? Where do we go from here? Lol.
AccidentProne8
Space Marshal
Maybe CIG will put it up for sale today.
AccidentProne8
Space Marshal
So how soon does operation spawn trap port olly begin?
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It would have been a cool "large" ship. I don't hate the design, but I can't say I'm a fan of the mechanic, I just see this as a tool for griefing. Opinions, thoughts?
3.7 So very soon.
I think it'll be handy for pirating, or even for bounty hunting. It's be great for our Privateering group. I just despise that they're pushing the "group play" so hard that you literally can't do anything alone. This ship is completely useless without friends, so anyone who may be spending even a little time playing alone, who would want to use this mechanic, is fucked. Would it kill CIG to make a ship that's even slightly viable? Put something resembling decent armament on it? This min-maxing thing they're doing with ships is frustrating as hell. I get they need revenue, but I feel like it pigeon holes people into doing one thing in one ship, and that's it. You affect people's quantum with this ship. That is it. You can't attack them after. You can't defend yourself if they attack you. You certainly can't board them. You can't loot anything. Nothing. One job. One niche job.
Also, concur. Make this a medium or large ship, with capacity to do ANYTHING else besides literally one thing, and maybe she'd be worth it.
It is the first game element added that is primarily intended for pirates to allow them to do their craft. It is also the first real threat to Haulers and will start to require them to fly with escorts. So yes in the PU its going to mostly be used for griefing and not really any threat to haulers as most will be solo pilots in a greatly underpowered ship so either just easily fly away or engage and blow them up.
I hear you but I also see if it was anything more then it would be far too powerful in the game and really enable everyone to only be pirates as hauling would be far too dangerous. Here it allows you to pull out convoys at a point of your choosing (hopefully somewhere with an easy escape path if things go sideways) and your little group of Cutlass and Catapilar pilots get to pillage and loot. I also imagine for the solo player (whos really solo when you have so many drinking buddies) would be able to hire NPCs to run protection/mantis if they really want to go down this path but I can imagine there are far more profitable options to solo players. Especially with exploring and data mining, bounty hunting and such.
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