Elite: Game talk

Episparh
21 Aug 2024, 11:03am
Sakashiro
22 Aug 2024, 11:53am
Episparh
Sakashiro

But they can't call it Imperial Explorer. The name has to start with a C.

Courier
Clipper
Cutter
Cruiser



Did you left your brain in the drawer?

What about
Imperial Eagle

?

And as I said Imperial Explorer and Imperial Trader are ships in the previous games:
https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Imperial_Explorer
https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Imperial_Trader

But yeah , I would fully support a Boa Cruiser to be added.

The Imperial Eagle is a refurbished Core Dynamics ship, not an original Gutamaya design. Doesn't count.
Joxilb 8Q
22 Aug 2024, 3:25pm
Sakashiro
Episparh
Sakashiro

But they can't call it Imperial Explorer. The name has to start with a C.

Courier
Clipper
Cutter
Cruiser




Did you left your brain in the drawer?

What about

?

And as I said Imperial Explorer and Imperial Trader are ships in the previous games:
https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Imperial_Explorer
https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Imperial_Trader

But yeah , I would fully support a Boa Cruiser to be added.


The Imperial Eagle is a refurbished Core Dynamics ship, not an original Gutamaya design. Doesn't count.


Good point. Maybe an Imperial Explorer could be a refurbished ship.
Could call it the "Imperial Inquisitor"

Or to stick purely to the "C", perhaps for an Imperial exploration class ship: "Corvette".

The corvette class was mainly used for fast recon. And sticking with the Imperial theme of military themes...

Quote:
A corvette is the class of ship below a frigate. It's the smallest, fastest ship that is still considered a warship instead of an armed civilian ship

EDIT: Also the Eagle is more of a fighter-bomber rather than a 'ship', really.
Vasil Vasilescu
22 Aug 2024, 3:54pm
To stick with the alliteravie idea of using a C to start the name...

Cruiser
Collier (if you want to haul coal)
Cupitor (Latin, roughly translated as "a seeker")
Colonizer (That is what Empires do, right?)
Meowers
22 Aug 2024, 4:37pm
Ladies and gentlemen, behold! You didn't want it, but here it comes! THE IMPERIAL CUCKOO! Made according to the familiar design lines, which we started with the Clipper and then refined with the Cutter, it appeals to what you deeply admire. The phallic shape will make you sign peace with your inner Freud and finally admit that you're with the Empire only for dicks. Balance? Fair play? Common sense? You need none of that with THE IMPERIAL CUCKOO! Its module and cargo capacity puts Fleet Carriers to shame, and don't worry about the handling! It's not 'worse than driving a cowshed on ice', it's what grace looks like! Soon, everyone will fly these anyway. Come on, spend those Arx now, why hold on to them? Credits are for plebs, plebs will wait for three years, but you can have this beauty in your hangar right now!

(attention: any shields except Prismatics won't work, go and serve the blue-hair bimbo because that's what you like too)
Vasil Vasilescu
22 Aug 2024, 4:50pm
Meowers...The phallic shape will make you sign peace with your inner Freud and finally admit that you're with the Empire only for dicks...


Cockatrice would be a good name.
Episparh
22 Aug 2024, 8:17pm
Well, well .... what about Imperial Copium. Suits them best
Miner Willy
22 Aug 2024, 8:48pm
Crusader
Conquerer or conquistador
Crown Victoria - Police interceptor
Crater (should it turn out to have some design flaws)

There are of course various blades to pick from:
Claymore
Cutlass
Cleaver

...but they are all types of cutter
Meowers
22 Aug 2024, 9:05pm
Miner WillyCrown Victoria - Police interceptor
I'll give up on my fancy dream of buying that car IRL if they made it an Imperial ship. Lol.
Kasumi Goto
23 Aug 2024, 2:01am
Just call it the Imperial Clutter.

Why? I don't know. My brain just thought it was funny.
Minonian
23 Aug 2024, 3:33am
And than here's the pufflefish.
Sakashiro
23 Aug 2024, 6:57am
Joxilb 8Q
Sakashiro
Episparh



Did you left your brain in the drawer?

What about

?

And as I said Imperial Explorer and Imperial Trader are ships in the previous games:
https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Imperial_Explorer
https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Imperial_Trader

But yeah , I would fully support a Boa Cruiser to be added.



The Imperial Eagle is a refurbished Core Dynamics ship, not an original Gutamaya design. Doesn't count.



Good point. Maybe an Imperial Explorer could be a refurbished ship.
Could call it the "Imperial Inquisitor"

Or to stick purely to the "C", perhaps for an Imperial exploration class ship: "Corvette".

The corvette class was mainly used for fast recon. And sticking with the Imperial theme of military themes...

Quote:
A corvette is the class of ship below a frigate. It's the smallest, fastest ship that is still considered a warship instead of an armed civilian ship

EDIT: Also the Eagle is more of a fighter-bomber rather than a 'ship', really.

Corvette is a good one!
Haraldsen
23 Aug 2024, 1:39pm
I know it is out of the question, but I'd like to see a battleship.

They are hinted at in the lore, saying that Farragut and Majestic class are battlecruisers. The battleship is supposed to be slower, but even bigger and armed to its teeth. It has no representation in game though. Unless it comes with PP2.0 with this flotilla thing.
Minonian
23 Aug 2024, 1:53pm
Speaking of which, to go a little sidetrack? Why brother with planetary Thargoid bases, with battleships poisons attack and other things like this? Just gimme a space rock, and rest assured it can be done at ease. And Tadaaa! Let's just rechristen em to dinoids.
Meowers
23 Aug 2024, 2:46pm
HaraldsenThey are hinted at in the lore, saying that Farragut and Majestic class are battlecruisers. The battleship is supposed to be slower, but even bigger and armed to its teeth.
If referring to naval terms is correct, then the whole line of ship classes is missing. Okay, we have corvette-class ships, represented, literally, by the Corvette. Then, the Cutter maybe falls into the same category, being relatively similar. No destroyers, cruisers, frigates, etc., none of that, just a jump straight to battlecruisers. With only one type of them per side. Okay, I got it, that's a game about smaller vessels which can be normally operated by a single pilot, so maybe having such a variety of larger ships is unnecessary, and creating dozens of new ship models isn't something Frontier capable of (anymore, lol), but... It'd be funny to see their... Attempts, maybe. :p

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