Rayman.Glad i wasnt there back then. Gambling was very fun back then /sMe neither. 'Grindy credits' stuff is what people who were here for a longer time told to me. I've created my account four years ago (Almost. Night from 6 to 7 January '21), and realising that I can trade even slaves, drugs and battle weapons, but can't obtain a simple piece of periodic table raw materials, gave me a fair amount of perplexion. And of course that circle of pain, where you rolled three times to get the 99% done and seven more times to finish the job. But then I was already accustomed to grindy games and 'seemingly random' but secretly rigged rolls, so not seeing the option of 'your module gets destroyed during the procedure with ...% chance' was already good.
It doesn't matter if this ship is up against fast and agile Vipers, FdL with the usual one or two Vultures as wing mates, or the heavy hitters like Conda or Vette: it shreds them all and dances around them like it's nothing. Yes, yes, in a well-engineered Python Mk2 or FdL you can also kill a lot of people, and with a Vette with a sh*tton of shield cell banks and boosters, you hardly have to do anything. BUT: none of these ships has the same fun factor like the Mandalay. The combination of Rails and Frags is also very kind to the limited distributor = it was never an issue. What a banger of a ship!
