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The earthstrike is a plausible route as well (and with a no-atmosphere gaming engine, we're never going to get close up so the coding isn't a huge resource cost!)

The caustic cloud left behind in a Titan explosion is ... worrying ...

Oh there are ways, you'd need to sprint back and sell exp data. A fast 'jumper' ship could do that in 2-4 hours depending where you are. Happy to help of you need tips to get back quickly and safely.

@modernspectrumgaming I might. Haven't started playing again yet but I'm in a Beluga with 55ly in spleich odj c9 something. I landed on a fleet carrier back in May 2021. Same CMDR name if you want to throw me a friendy

Drop your build into Spansh and see what route it comes out with on the Galaxy Plotter. I know I can Colonia to Sol in about 3hr 30m with a 50/60ly ship. See what it offers you. Alternativly get to a DSSA Fleet Carrier with a Sidewinder to purchase, sell the nav data (slight surchage to FC) and fast trael back with an exploding sidey

Oh if only a million subs were as simple as pointing out the dangers of British Sci-Fi and happy endings! Welcome aboard.

To cross even more genres, the new ships and the new code feels like a Chekov's Gun to me.

Problems with interdiction?

@@modernspectrumgaming The Thargoids peeled me out of Hyperspace. But unlike the old times on the Commodore 64, I lost 😅

FDev has lifted the need for Permits in Sirius and Sol, so you can share and enjoy the despair over a nice brew.

When Titans go boom, Titans leave behind caustic clouds. Not as big as a planet... at least not yet.

Thank you!

As they say on other sites... "Citation Needed." You can see in the comments here, on other channels, and other forums there are those for, and those against. Personally I believe there are more who prioritise other features than those who prioritise ship interiors. A statistically randomised survey would be good to know, but the practicality (engine, cost, what game loop would be beneficial) against ship interiors cannot be overlooked.

@modernspectrumgaming i think it's just a case you don't want ships interiors and your trying to persuade yourself most dont, and yeah citation is needed before you make your statment, yeah their are a few who dont want them, but i sure they wish the interiors of the space stations never existed or we should have never left Elite's 1984 graphics, because just think how the developers could have focused the resources on other game play features.......but the ships cockpits are already modeled, it would not be huge undertaking to just model partial interiors for certain key areas of each ship, only idiots are demanding full interiors for every ship....but we will see in time what happens

I would Love ship interiors, but the poor quality of the FPS game heavily implies that the current engine is just bad at doing this kind of thing. Star Citizen has ship interiors, but there are gameplay loops associated with walking around those ships. Unless FDev build in a lot more FPS features, which I don't think is a good use of limited Dev time, ship interiors aren't really that impactful.

And it took how long to get cleared up?

Seconded... work with what you have and make that polished, rather than a new 'minimum viable project' for a short term hit.

Wouldn't that means saving billions of star systems on your local machine?

@@darkseraph2009 No - because the galaxy is procedurally generated. Only the systems that have previously been visited would need to be saved locally.

I agree with @SigamRho2922 because even for them it would be impossible to save billions of star systems with their servers, as it is an unimaginable amount of data even for their servers

Yep, the past performance on comms has been very much like this. With staff turnover and a new found energy in the game (even if we have to thank F1 Manager et al for their poor performance) the new crowd could well change the approach. The FleetCarriers show what can and can't be done, and that's with a fixed layout. Cobra engine never could, and short of a full rework I doubt an engine change can happen now (Elite:Deadly for 2030 though?)

Good counter-point. In reply I'd say that when the speculation arose, that would be a great time to set expectations with a quick social media post, heck if you wanted to stay in story you could do an "Exclusive: From Our Shipyard Correspondent" leak on the C5 on Galnet. That has the bonus of not only keeping expectations set, but does it in the fabric of the game, not just IRL.

Maybe it's because I'm an old school space nerd. 14 days in the cockpit of a Gemini and you never left, because there was nowhere else to go! 1960s spaceships didn't have interiors, just a spacious jacket around the astronauts!

Starfield has ship interiors - it is just an annoyance after the 2 minute initial hit. Star Citizen has ship interiors (and $1000+ ships) - maybe if they had spent more time on the actual gameplay and stability, it would be closer to a viable product. Fdev need to use their time and money wisely, implementing features that are actually useful.

@@Magnumaniac with fdev, it can be done well(with transporters/doors/terminals that have quick cockpit access), outside of living/captains quarters, most everything in the [not doplhin/orca/beluga/imp line] can be generic, like cargo and hangars, maybe even the probe scanner can be visible.(ship interiors are cheap enough on asset stores) but.. the engine could get wrecked with surface and interior, and then people will want boarding combat, manual cargo grabbing(tk stick/gun from SC), etc. last issue with interiors, rescaling ships that are incorrect, like titan stairs on cutter, or 3' space on mandalay(stared at it too much)

If you want interiors, then you want a normal server system instead of peer to peer, therefore, you want to pay monthly subscription of a nice amount. Also you want to spend a lot of time for waiting, years.

My friend swears that, in the last 3-6 months, they have redesigned all the ship interiors. He swears that my cutter and his beluga both look different in the cockpit in camera mode since we bought the ships earlier this year. He claims this is them preparing for ship interiors. A lot of the doors now look like settlement doors, whereas in the past they were sort of unique based on each ship manufacturer, now it seems like they might be working components found in settlements. He says the size and layout of the desks and furniture and stuff has rearranged in the cutter whereas before he said it looked like a dated hospital aesthetic, all White and dull, but now it looks more like something from star wars or star trek. I don't have the memory to remember what my ship interior (that I can't even explore) looked like 3-6 months ago. But if he's correct, they've been preparing for ship interiors in recent updates at least throughout this year

I've bought every early access, so its about the same for me. The difference to Loot Boxes is you get to choose what you spend the game currency on. Which I much prefer.

What I call gampleay, can also be called grind... or at least a 'good grind'. Core gameply loops for the win.

@modernspectrumgaming You should not play games, then, since all gameplay is grind for you.

Having everything handed to you on a platter with no effort would not improve the game. You need the challenge and the feeling of reward. And as the video points out, this has always been the way of Elite. 2024 saw some rebalancing to suit the current gaming landscape, but it very much kept the ethos of Elite present.

With FDev tweaking this in 2024 so you don't need to relog to play effectively at HGE or Crash sites, plus more mats as mission rewards, they've kept the thos but brought it up to date. IMO (as is everything here, enjoying the debate every week in the comments).

@@modernspectrumgaming but they changed it, so admitted it was done badly an grind, dont get me wrong, im glad they did, but if grind was good, why change it? i think it lost them a fair few players before they finally faced reality, hopefully now theyll carry on an sort the probs faster

When you have modern games giving you encouragement like a Vegas pinball machine, Elites "here's a line of text" reward is vastly different. Part of the controversy might simply be that the feeling of 'reward' is so different in the Elite universe than it is in say Balatro.

"...at least for me" is very much in effect. The Elite Scout is geared towards personal opinion; I wanted something that complements the various YT News channels and Streams. I'm the starting point, the debate continues.

It feels like an obvious spot, but part of me feels there should be some gaps, rather than something everywhere. It's a stretch but not hugely difficult to find the 8Bil you need for the Fleet Carrier (5B carrier, 2B outfitting, 1B running costs for 40 weeks). And if you can get 8B, you can find the weekly cost. What I would love though is a Fleet Carrier outfitted for exploration. Longer jump range, more fuel efficient, but reduced cargo space, would 10,000t work, enough for a Vista, Cartographics, Shipyard for friends. Give it the range to do Sol to Beagle Point. That feels like a 3B purchase, and can be done within the existing code.

Curious to see the handling, yes. Given how slippy the Mandalay is, there's not much twitchyness left for the Mediums.

I feel the cobra mkV as a medium will be a pure nostalgia ship. Likely I will fly but when I need to get job done I’ll switch to more effective medium ship. Such a pity. I could say the same about small Cobras too though. Given anniversary I welcome a tip of the hat nostalgic celebration with new cobra. Especially since I have no access to mkIV.

ASP Scout fan here as well (I mean, I think the videos and channel name give it away). There is a place for a medium Multi-Role ship, and I could get behind this being an Aspie2... because it's certainly not a Cobra!

Indeed you did, and I salute you, even more restrictive than the Spectrum.

48k decadence 😄

Well, you did steal all the nice keyboards from us.

@ blame Clive for the keyboards. His idea of what looked good was the issue

If it looked cheap, it looked good to Clive.

I was pretty sure someone would spot that one and have a quiet chuckle. Congratulations.

Have fun!

A shade over 100 jumps from the Bubble to Colonia, with a bit of focus took me just over three hours to get there. It's a beast

I'll film it in deep space next time (or fix the balance ;-) )

And lots of variants in the comments, plenty for everyone to explore!

thx

Do note that there's some engineering in there, but looking forward to what you can put together. Let us know!

@@modernspectrumgaming my intensions is mainly to discover and to get some components to upgrade so i thought this would be a quicker way.

Happy to give you the quickstart. If you're still early days, I'd move the powerplant up to Class 4 or Class 5 to give you more headroom to play around with outfitting. This build is pretty tight to get weight down.

@@modernspectrumgaming now that would be a good idea , i have been playing for some time but i have been doing a lot of trading etc and movement of goods . so i bought this ship to get me more places for upgrades , i do have most of the ships but i like the style and the capabilities of this ship. not done the power plants but top of my list now.

There are a lot of ships, and each one has a lot of tweaks and builds. You'll find your forever ship soon enough (but of course you'll ned up with a hanger of ships for dedicated things!). For obvious reasons, I'm an ASP Scout fan.

It's a balance on going lighter, and going for the efficiency. The 2A was cutting it really fine on power budget for what I wanted. 3A vs 3D? Curiously I've put the Coriolis build with 3A, so clearly even I can't make my mind up!

@@modernspectrumgaming Well I'd counter against what you're saying by you engineering your drives as clean "for heat" but between your clean drives and your D-rated powerplant your heat while scooping is the same as a regular A-Rated dirty drive Mandalay so really all you're doing is gimping your ships normal space performance for a placebo affect when it comes to heat. The only thing you're getting out of those choices is a little more jump range. I'd argue that going full dirty drives increases your survivability far more than any other modification possibly could. This is especially true since you're using D-Rated thrusters and as a result are already dramatically slower than you should be. Your build with A-Rated thrusters and dirty drives would probably get between 570-600ms top speed.

Good counter. I wish I had planned it out and could say *ahah, see more jump range* but I'm not that meticulous. Although I'd be interested to see a big specs breakdown to find out if that's the case with *this* ship.

@@modernspectrumgaming Yeah until we get an edsy update with the Mandalay that'll be pretty hard to do effectively. I personally sit in the middle between the explorer folk and the pvp folk. Having been exclusively open play as a lawful enforcer and pre-engineers being heavy into PVP... I tend to focus everything I build on surviving in Open. The Mandalay honestly deserves more. I'm running one right now with no weapons and an A-Rated core with Sensors & Life Support D-rated for range/speed and I'm running 587ms, 55ly laden jump range and 70.88 unladen with a G5 guardian FSD booster and 3A Prismatic shield boasting 1195mj shield tank. I have another multirole build that is also sits between 45-50ly (without a guardian FSD booster) and can do a crapload of activities in the game. Frontier finally gave explorers a ship that can both multirole and explore while still being fast and fun to fly and it deserves to be fit for more than minmaxed range imo. Builds that follow the typical exploration meta are squishy and die easily, even to NPC's. Something I rarely ever hear explorers talk about or acknowledge for example is the longer you sit in supercruise the more your ships integrity is reduced. As your ship integrity drops from 100% to 0% there is a sliding scale that goes from 0% increased damage at 100% integrity to 30% increase damage at 0% integrity (to the ship itself, not the shields). What this winds up meaning is that the moment your "bumper" shields go off, you're taking 30% more damage of whatever is incoming. On top of that typical explorer builds also have multiple negative resists which are also increasing your incoming damage. The result winds up being ~60% or higher increased damage and very small mistakes being absolutely catastrophic. None of this is of course to dog on you or your build. I only bother to mention any of this because you choose to make sacrifices to your range for things that make sense. I just want to encourage you to push a bit further and really embrace the insane levels of OP that the Mandalay can boast. Even if you run a Mandalay full bore you're still getting a 40-50ly jump range without guardian FSD boosters, which is more than enough to deal with almost anywhere but the absolute most extreme gaps between stars, and lets face it if you have a carrier you are toting around the galaxy with you, you can have an extreme build for those scenarios when required. Anyways I enjoyed your video and I hope you are enjoying your Mandalay as much as I am mine!

@@CMDRArsenCross Really appreciate this, didn't take it as a dog on the build at all. I do wonder if the increased NPC aggression discussed in PowerPlay 2,0 spaces will also have an impact on the general state of "Dangerousness" in the Galaxy... if so, the paper builds may get a touch more exposed over the next few months. That would be ... interesting! Presumably your build is engineering up the Prismatics and throwing some shield boosters on? And, ssh, but *not* having the data from EDSY/Coriolis to work on the build has been refreshing. Tha's not to say I never want them there, but doing the old fashioned work/maths/feeling of old... welcome back!