The carrack as it sits on the website is 120. No news on white box size or anything like that. But i expect the carrack to grow (not a whole lot but get bigger all the same) as well as polaris as well when its actually made in game. But the 2 will likely be pretty close to the same size.
Greetings fellow owner of the Banu MM with sophistication and impressive tastes! :D I think your 100% on the money, will certainly get some tweeks I think, doubt you'll see a Banu Friget as the end result though. I'd suggest at a bare miniumum the original package would have to get an update with a poster and model to marry in with all the concept sales in recent times, looks bare bones currently. Love the look of this ship and the fact it's known as a 'wolf in sheeps clothing' so it should be able to get an arsenal attached for all those pesky pirates. Also is the biggest ship to make surface landings from what I have seen sooooooo its bigger than the Carrack? Interesting.........:eek: Wish there were more details to read about it to get me all hot and bothered! LOL:rolleyes:
The banu, carrack, and 890 jump are all as big or bigger than the polaris. Meaning they should all be considered corvetts. However cig is only calling the polaris one. Wich makes no sence.
unless corvette name is for military fighting ships only. There are yachts larger than corvettes now days.
You make a good point but I don't think it will be an easy thing to do. I think the FPS combat people think they need to plan for is a minor portion of the task since most times you are looking to attack ships that do not have active players aboard and if they do, just one or two. Most times people will not leave their ships unattended in deep space for fear of pirates, but exploration craft like the Carrack are designed to be out in the farthest reaches and you can't commute back to your hangar from there every time you need to get some real world sleep, so that's where to find Carrack's.
Honestly I'm not sure I want a Corvette yet. I want to take one or ten, but I'm not sure i want to keep them. We'll see. I know I want a Carrack. The tourble is, even if you have 10 NPC's aboard and 10 players, you might have long periods of time where only 1 or 2 players will be aboard to respond to an attack, so I think it is going to happen that in some ways ships will be easier to steal than defend. We'll see.
Corvettes are military ships, smaller than "ships of the line" like Frigates and typically very fast. Banu and 890 Jump are not military. One is a merchantman freighter and the other is a luxury yacht. The Carrack is a dedicated explorer and the Polaris is likely almost twice its mass, so I don't think you have any comparison here.
There is a means to remove points from your outlaw status. I saw someone running the missions the other day. You basically have to break into a comm station and hack the grid there, and if you can hold that room while security attacks you during the hack, you get a point removed. So you can move up and down the outlaw status progression albeit with some effort.
Then why not call the carrack (a former military ship) at least a former corvette? If not a actual corvette.
Hard to say why CIG does what they do. It is fair to note they are pretty shrewd. Remember their main business is selling cyber-ships. They know that many players will be attracted to the class of ships that is the last thing before a ship of the line, just because big ships like the Idris, Javelin and Bengal require lots of players. The Corvettes appear at this time could be crewed by smallish handfuls of players with their NPC's. I would expect the Polaris will be in that class, like the Vandal Void above--that you could man it well with just 8-10 PC's and twice that many NPC's. In general you want about 3X as many characters as is needed since they won't all be playing at the same time. You could crew the Void with 8 players. This is much better than needing 50 PC's for a Javelin or some such. So compare the Void against the Carrack. It has more than twice the firepower, and half that of a Javelin. It's a nice middle size for pirates and power-mongers who want to rule the world.
