Asp explorer or Asp Scout

[perseus]

Title says it all.

[FuzedBox]

Asp scout is arguably the game's most worthless ship. Don't buy it. Asp Explorer is fantastic.

[One Eye Jack]

Explorer

[HairballHacker]

Scout.

You will be the only commander in the galaxy flying one and people will pop your hull just for flying one.

[Witcher]

Lol. Despite being the cheaper one like Cobra III and IV or Krait II and Python, Asp S had some significant design flaws

Edit: Did Chieftain also inherit some bad designs to its bigger bro Challenger?

[XTAKK]

Pretend the scout does not exist. Your life will be improved.

[FuzedBox]

Originally posted by Witcher:

Lol. Despite being the cheaper one like Cobra III and IV or Krait II and Python, Asp S had some significant design flaws

Edit: Did Chieftain also inherit some bad designs to its bigger bro Challenger?

Dunno, but they do have one thing in common: They're both ships that I only bought for the hoard. Couldn't be arsed enough to give them a fair go. Haven't touch the Chief since 3.0 dropped, and I didn't even look at the Challenger's specs before stuffing it to the gills with mothballs.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Syvyvn:

Pretend the scout does not exist. Your life will be improved.

Why? They are very nice ships to blow up at CZs. :)

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Explorer,

Scout is worthless, though it may get a buff soonish, I thought I saw some comments from FD that they were gonna buff it at some point in the future. (I bet it gets 4x Medium Hardpoints instead of 2xM 2xS), not sure that'll help it, it's basically supposed to be a more military spec ASP.

[Landor]

Probably the Explorer, but if you don't want to spend that much then look at the Keelback instead of the Scout.

[Agony_Aunt]

Devs said not too long ago the Asp Scout is going to get some love.

[Witcher]

Yea, same with Clipper - not enough love :/

[Scaryowl]

Originally posted by Witcher:

Yea, same with Clipper - not enough love :/

clipper is an actually good ship though.

[Witcher]

I love my Clipper but it:

1. can't land on outposts despite no fighter hanger;

2. is missing an additional large HP and the 2 on nacelles are too far apart to be more efffective;

3. would be nice to have a 5th utility slot.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Witcher:

I love my Clipper but it:

But it's a beautiful ship on its own. One of ships that I hardly use anymore, but I simply can't sell it. :)

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Clipper should be retooled as one of the top-tier exploration ships IMO. Give it a huge jump range with almost no utility compromises, its main compromise being it has to land at large pads, despite being quite small. I personally think it should be up there with DBX-ASP-CONDA. Something that kind of bridges that Asp-X to Conda exploration gap.

Tooling it as a long-range exploration ship wouldn't even alter its lore role in game, as the preferred imperial transport for low-ranking Citizens and personel, and bring it in line with a Type-7 which recently got a massive jump range boost as well. It would require a larger fuel tank though.