speculation: Panther Clipper coming??

[Turd Ferguson]

Given the amount of cargo is required to repair a goid-attacked station requires several times the amount of cargo of a CG...and offers no CG rewards or a comelling reason to grind THAT much cargo delivery.....isi this a setup for the Panther Clipper?

[Agony_Aunt]

Well, we know of 2 new known ships that are coming, but FD in a recent newsletter implied more would be coming this year as well. That certainly leaves room for a Panther Clipper, FD are certainly aware its in demand.

I can imagine it being literally just inches shy of the mailslot in all directions.

[Turd Ferguson]

Agony_Aunt님이 먼저 게시:

Well, we know of 2 new known ships that are coming, but FD in a recent newsletter implied more would be coming this year as well. That certainly leaves room for a Panther Clipper, FD are certainly aware its in demand.

I can imagine it being literally just inches shy of the mailslot in all directions.

it wouldn't surprise me if it involved some other mechanic outside the mailslot to prevent it being used as a mega-passenger ship capable or making billion credits in 1 run.

[morph113]

I sure hope it's coming. It's the only ship I am waiting for. The only ship I will ever need, apart from my trusty Asp.

[The Mobian]

i think FDEV will give it to us to shut us up already lol

i play day by day.... i dont care about new ships :)

[Turd Ferguson]

Jay_in_GPK님이 먼저 게시:

i think FDEV will give it to us to shut us up already lol

i play day by day.... i dont care about new ships :)

I don't either. I'm just thinking that there's no tool currently ingame that will allow us to actually FIX a station that's been attacked by teh goids and given the huge cargo requirements, maybe they're setting up gameplay rather than just dropping a new ship into the game with no purpose.

At this point I'm not sure I want to grind cargo to fix those stations...I mean, who cares if they're running or not?

[de.lorca]

Jay_in_GPK님이 먼저 게시:

i think FDEV will give it to us to shut us up already lol

i play day by day.... i dont care about new ships :)

so i am not a long term elite dangerous fan what is there to be excitet about?

[Turd Ferguson]

seigneur.de.lorca님이 먼저 게시:

Jay_in_GPK님이 먼저 게시:

i think FDEV will give it to us to shut us up already lol

i play day by day.... i dont care about new ships :)

so i am not a long term elite dangerous fan what is there to be excitet about?

if you like trading, it's a massive ship.

[de.lorca]

Turd Ferguson님이 먼저 게시:

seigneur.de.lorca님이 먼저 게시:

so i am not a long term elite dangerous fan what is there to be excitet about?

if you like trading, it's a massive ship.

ultimate space truck simulator?
with how the devs balance there game it honesly sounds like another ship that looses to the anaconda and clipper in cargo capacity but will be cheaper and bigger because you know a jetset jet obviously can hold more cargo since it's more expensive

[CaptainKINGPIN]

seigneur.de.lorca님이 먼저 게시:

Turd Ferguson님이 먼저 게시:

if you like trading, it's a massive ship.

ultimate space truck simulator?
with how the devs balance there game it honesly sounds like another ship that looses to the anaconda and clipper in cargo capacity but will be cheaper and bigger because you know a jetset jet obviously can hold more cargo since it's more expensive

quite the opposite i would imagine since the Panther in the lore and past variations claim it was capable of emptying stations of commodities, even they scale it down to be more in line with the size to fit into a station in ED it would still outhaul the the conda and cutter and likely cost double or triple as much as those ships.

[Gralzeim]

Amid all this wild speculation based purely on its incarnation from decades ago, I'd like to remind folks that it's extremely unlikely the Panther Clipper will be like it is in the memories folks have of it.

Because Elite Dangerous is a MMO, unlike previous Elite titles (not even sure all of them had multiplayer of any sort), so balance is important. People salivating over the thought of a ship able to do everything all at once while being nigh-invincible are kidding themselves.

If it ever is added to the game (and I'm sure it will eventually), it'll be a big trade ship (the Imperial Cutter is multipurpose type, so's the Anaconda), like the Type 9's big brother. Also extremely unlikely it will be much bigger than any of the existing big ships, as it still has to fit through the mail slot, and a ship "that dwarfs the Anaconda" clearly wouldn't.

[de.lorca]

CaptainKINGPIN님이 먼저 게시:

quite the opposite i would imagine since the Panther in the lore and past variations claim it was capable of emptying stations of commodities, even they scale it down to be more in line with the size to fit into a station in ED it would still outhaul the the conda and cutter and likely cost double or triple as much as those ships.

well explain that to the devs if you look at the curent ship's the trade ship's are always outperformed at there primory job by a sligthly smaller multi-purpuse ship with maybe 1 exception i forgot about

[CaptainKINGPIN]

seigneur.de.lorca님이 먼저 게시:

CaptainKINGPIN님이 먼저 게시:

quite the opposite i would imagine since the Panther in the lore and past variations claim it was capable of emptying stations of commodities, even they scale it down to be more in line with the size to fit into a station in ED it would still outhaul the the conda and cutter and likely cost double or triple as much as those ships.

well explain that to the devs if you look at the curent ship's the trade ship's are always outperformed at there primory job by a sligthly smaller multi-purpuse ship with maybe 1 exception i forgot about

check again, the devs buffed trade ships not that long ago so that they are still the better choice for Strict trading over a multipurpose ship, the type 9 carries more cargo than an anaconda does.

the Panther will out perform whatever comparable sized multipurpose in its weight class.

[raymazoida]

Has anyone been to titans daughter lately to see how it's going there? i did maybe 10 full cutter loads and didn't even move it on to 10% of the least needed stuff lol

How much would a Panther be able to carry? Would it really make that much of a difference? Given the small numbers that would be able to likely afford it for starters, even if it was quadruple a cutter I'd have still not moved it to 10% mind!

What the devs need to do is start a series of CGs for a couple of these materials to get the community working. They need to move on with CGs like they told us there were going to after 2.1 and have more, more automated etc. And what would be a better automated trigger for a CG than a busted station?

[de.lorca]

CaptainKINGPIN님이 먼저 게시:

seigneur.de.lorca님이 먼저 게시:

well explain that to the devs if you look at the curent ship's the trade ship's are always outperformed at there primory job by a sligthly smaller multi-purpuse ship with maybe 1 exception i forgot about

check again, the devs buffed trade ships not that long ago so that they are still the better choice for Strict trading over a multipurpose ship, the type 9 carries more cargo than an anaconda does.

the Panther will out perform whatever comparable sized multipurpose in its weight class.

didn't know about that, tipe 7 still looks like ♥♥♥♥ tougth and now that i am looking at stat why does the clipper outperform everyone at everything? am i missing something with the stat's on paper?

[CaptainKINGPIN]

seigneur.de.lorca님이 먼저 게시:

CaptainKINGPIN님이 먼저 게시:

check again, the devs buffed trade ships not that long ago so that they are still the better choice for Strict trading over a multipurpose ship, the type 9 carries more cargo than an anaconda does.

the Panther will out perform whatever comparable sized multipurpose in its weight class.

didn't know about that, tipe 7 still looks like ♥♥♥♥ tougth and now that i am looking at stat why does the clipper outperform everyone at everything? am i missing something with the stat's on paper?

FD has a weakness for The Empire and will always give those damn dirty imperials the edge.