Never thought of putting a Prospector in the back. I am wondering if it can fit a Prospector and also an Ursa, or something slightly smaller. The fact that it can hold a ground vehicle suggests it can land on the surface. I never thought I would lean towards an Odyssey, but after seeing this video it has given me a thought since I am one of those types to be a hermit in space and life. The idea is this. Load up on MRE's and Water bottles, load up a prospector and perhaps a ground vehicle like Ursa or ROC, and then go off into space to mine while using the Odyssey to refuel. Also note, if you can manage to get a cargo hauler out there as well you could just work it out with the cargo hauler to split the profits with you to keep them coming back for another load of mined goods or QT. Just some thoughts I wanted to share, and who knows, maybe one day this could work.
Honestly being we understand the idea behind mining as its more fleshed out, I think this is still a carrack killer in many ways. I think people just throw that term out when new ships of the same size come out without thinking about the ship and purpose. I can easily see the odyssey crewing 8 with a prospector, expanse, Odyssey, Roc, and mule as a full team to find and mine with. Something the Carrack can't do currently and is not designed to do. We actually don't know much about exploration gameplay at all except they can find jump points. We need an understanding of the Explorations bread and butter. What the main purpose of those ships will be and why I would choose that over a dedicated ship of purpose. Can they find minerals faster than a Odyssey? Can they spot bad buys faster than a Hornet Tracker? will they be faster at medical response than the Apollo? all of these ships have better radars and dedicated roles outside of scanning. Data ships can scan and carry data while being generally faster than other ships. So what is explorations true role that sets it apart?
The Odd will likely become an excellent explorer once a Terrapin is added thus providing the ship with the scanning abilities of that smaller add-on ship. But it is exactly as you said; we don't really know enough about how these things will work. I have a Merchantman and have concluded that the ship is too big for me. I'm lucky if I can find another player, let along an entire squad, so I'm thinking of upgrading the ship to something that could be manned by less people and still be effective. I'm getting tempted by the Perseus for these reasons. But that's entirely a combat role ship with little else to offer.
So..... we're just going to throw out the fact that the Carrack is completely modular and compare it to....... mining? A capital class ship at that? Really??? This whole post is full of hot air and personal preferences. No facts.
@@durtyred86 I have a Carrack, I actually got it long before getting my Merchantman. However, most of the Carrack's advantages are based on promises and "hints" by the devs. By now we should know better than trusting them. So the guy that buys into the Carrack is actually not any different than the guy who likes the Odd. As far as we can tell, all the Carrack is is a cargo hauler than has no pilot controlled weps, and a great ship for team bunker missions. That's all there is to it. Till CIG makes the promised features real, there are really not that many arguments for the Carrack as being superior to anything. If facts mean anything that is.
I have to respond to this comment so the notification will be removed but I don't know what to say about anything here so carry on as you guys were... Well apart from the fact that you have all contributed towards the pushing of my video by commenting on it so thanks for that :)
Never thought of putting a Prospector in the back. I am wondering if it can fit a Prospector and also an Ursa, or something slightly smaller. The fact that it can hold a ground vehicle suggests it can land on the surface. I never thought I would lean towards an Odyssey, but after seeing this video it has given me a thought since I am one of those types to be a hermit in space and life.
The idea is this. Load up on MRE's and Water bottles, load up a prospector and perhaps a ground vehicle like Ursa or ROC, and then go off into space to mine while using the Odyssey to refuel. Also note, if you can manage to get a cargo hauler out there as well you could just work it out with the cargo hauler to split the profits with you to keep them coming back for another load of mined goods or QT.
Just some thoughts I wanted to share, and who knows, maybe one day this could work.
At 2:46 you say the prospector has the same laser, but the prospector has a size one laser just so you’re aware
Hmm yeah not sure why I thought the prospector had size 2 to be honest
@@Duffer529 it’s an honest mistake
This ship can do so much !!!
Honestly being we understand the idea behind mining as its more fleshed out, I think this is still a carrack killer in many ways. I think people just throw that term out when new ships of the same size come out without thinking about the ship and purpose. I can easily see the odyssey crewing 8 with a prospector, expanse, Odyssey, Roc, and mule as a full team to find and mine with. Something the Carrack can't do currently and is not designed to do. We actually don't know much about exploration gameplay at all except they can find jump points. We need an understanding of the Explorations bread and butter. What the main purpose of those ships will be and why I would choose that over a dedicated ship of purpose. Can they find minerals faster than a Odyssey? Can they spot bad buys faster than a Hornet Tracker? will they be faster at medical response than the Apollo? all of these ships have better radars and dedicated roles outside of scanning. Data ships can scan and carry data while being generally faster than other ships. So what is explorations true role that sets it apart?
The Odd will likely become an excellent explorer once a Terrapin is added thus providing the ship with the scanning abilities of that smaller add-on ship. But it is exactly as you said; we don't really know enough about how these things will work. I have a Merchantman and have concluded that the ship is too big for me. I'm lucky if I can find another player, let along an entire squad, so I'm thinking of upgrading the ship to something that could be manned by less people and still be effective. I'm getting tempted by the Perseus for these reasons. But that's entirely a combat role ship with little else to offer.
So..... we're just going to throw out the fact that the Carrack is completely modular and compare it to....... mining? A capital class ship at that? Really??? This whole post is full of hot air and personal preferences. No facts.
@@durtyred86 I have a Carrack, I actually got it long before getting my Merchantman. However, most of the Carrack's advantages are based on promises and "hints" by the devs. By now we should know better than trusting them. So the guy that buys into the Carrack is actually not any different than the guy who likes the Odd. As far as we can tell, all the Carrack is is a cargo hauler than has no pilot controlled weps, and a great ship for team bunker missions. That's all there is to it. Till CIG makes the promised features real, there are really not that many arguments for the Carrack as being superior to anything. If facts mean anything that is.
I have to respond to this comment so the notification will be removed but I don't know what to say about anything here so carry on as you guys were...
Well apart from the fact that you have all contributed towards the pushing of my video by commenting on it so thanks for that :)
I love my Carrack but also purchased this so I have options.
Once I saw it was $850.00 I said hell no…. I already got scammed by buying the carrack. …fool me twice shame on me…