Elite: Game talk

04 Apr 2021, 9:12pm
A fighter hangar for an exploration ship?
04 Apr 2021, 9:33pm
SakashiroA fighter hangar for an exploration ship?

You wouldn't want to race through canyons in your light exploration ship, when you've gone some weeks or months into the black. I'd say most explorers are not adrenalin junkies.
04 Apr 2021, 9:49pm
While the Phantom would give me 10 LY more range and an additional SRV bay, I'd feel like such a heel mothballing my trusty old AspX. She's been with me from my early days in ED.
04 Apr 2021, 9:58pm
WaylongwayYou wouldn't want to race through canyons in your light exploration ship, when you've gone some weeks or months into the black. I'd say most explorers are not adrenalin junkies.

I'd say if they weren't adrenaline junkies they wouldn't want to race through canyons at all.

But yeah, I haven't looked at it from that angle. Still, adding 20t for a SLF hangar... I find the 6t SRV hangar quite heavy already, but at least it is somewhat useful for gathering synthesis materials during a trip. And it can be used for racing as well.

As a side note, the SRV will continue being useful after Odyssey is released because it can be deployed on planets that are too hot or too cold to disembark on foot.
04 Apr 2021, 10:10pm
SakashiroI'd say if they weren't adrenaline junkies they wouldn't want to race through canyons at all.

I suppose some fun is always welcome. In an SLF it's rather risk free. No need for adrenaline jumps.
04 Apr 2021, 11:41pm
Yeah but SLFs have limited range from the mothership. Quite annoying because they're the perfect little canyon racers.
04 Apr 2021, 11:47pm
mmmmmmmm canyon racing
05 Apr 2021, 3:13am
Isn't the range like 30km on those things? Anyway, couldn't you just set the mothership to follow mode and solve the problem?
05 Apr 2021, 6:52am
SniperGhost104Isn't the range like 30km on those things? Anyway, couldn't you just set the mothership to follow mode and solve the problem?


You could, but the SLF is still a fair amount faster than the motherships.
05 Apr 2021, 7:53am
I use SLF in my exploration Anaconda as a camera drone.
05 Apr 2021, 9:14am
05 Apr 2021, 9:20am
Amata LireinSoooo... turns out we just had an Imperial Wedding...


Clearing my galnet feed of such irrelevancies is yet another good reason for the Federation to wipe the Empire out.
05 Apr 2021, 9:24am
EpisparhI use SLF in my exploration Anaconda as a camera drone.

This is what I find most explorers use SLF for. Less canyon racing, more vanity projects.
For me just never got into the conda’s handling. Prefer a smaller ship.
05 Apr 2021, 9:32am
Amata LireinSoooo... turns out we just had an Imperial Wedding...


Pity no one sent thargoid bomb there instead of random stations.
05 Apr 2021, 9:45am
Tengri Umai
Amata LireinSoooo... turns out we just had an Imperial Wedding...



Pity no one sent thargoid bomb there instead of random stations.


It's pretty hard to bomb the royals, what with their heads shoved so far up the emperors arse.

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