Shipwright Archive
Thread: POB grade cargo hold useless
Whatever next? Before you know it you will be wanting the devs to give everyone an insanely small, fast and manouverable ship with 90K mass!
Azdraik wrote:
um... the Y-8 Missions are bugged so no we can't get one.
inline with the OP's thoughts, they're comparing a POB to the Y8 that is on test center now, revamped... and the quest has been fixed.
CommTampers wrote:
In the upcoming publish, POB ships are slated for some long deprived TLC; however, the basic POB ships are still useless for mining, and were completely ignored in the mining gripe. The fact that they only have two gunners, with one gun each, is a severe hinderance to mining. The fact that the mining laser and tracter beam must be in opposite hemispheres isunfeasible for mining. This could be solved by either giving the pilot control of a forward gun or giving each gunner control of two weapon slots. Basic POB ships should be made formidable for mining.
I agree that the original POB ships would not be very useful for mining. However, with the changes coming to the Y-8, is this really a problem? The way I look at it, the original POB ships weren't intended for mining, but the Y-8 was intended for this purpose.
I would also like to see a smaller one-man mining vessel that can handle a larger cargo hold than the starfighter, but perhaps as bigs as the POB cargo hold. A vessel intended for a single player mining operation. Something between a starfighter and POB ship.
but then that's just speculation....
But.... wouldn't it make more sense to use a mining ship for heavy mining? Instead of a ship that's really made for combat? I think that's where the devs were really thinking, I mean yeah you can put a cargo hold and mining lasers on a POB ship, but that's not what the ship is really designed for.
And by changing the way POB ships work for mining, you might just unbalance thier role in combat to something that the devs really hadn't anticipated. Personally, I'd rather wait and see how well POB ships work in combat with this next publish, and leave the heavy mining to the mining ship.
Bucke-Thead wrote:
Whatever next? Before you know it you will be wanting the devs to give everyone an insanely small, fast and manouverable ship with 90K mass!
CommTampers wrote:
Bucke-Thead wrote:
Whatever next? Before you know it you will be wanting the devs to give everyone an insanely small, fast and manouverable ship with 90K mass!
Meh... already got one. I prefer the additional mass with an awsome killbox of three gun slots, without a maneuverability penalty.
BTW, the normal POB ships have loot-boxes and the Y8 doesn't.
I thought they fixed this awhile back?
Slysix wrote:
I think they have future uses for cargo holds...not just mining....
but then that's just speculation....
Well, as long as you're speculating, would you mind sharing with us your thoughts on the matter?
Jagged-F3l wrote:
Slysix wrote:
I think they have future uses for cargo holds...not just mining....
but then that's just speculation....
Well, as long as you're speculating, would you mind sharing with us your thoughts on the matter?
Well aslong as we have cargo holds we can use them to hide in when they tractor us into that huge space station and...er...for some reason i'm having deja vu...
Just a few ideas...
Delivery missions in space(depending on size of load...might need POB ship to transport it)...
BH missions in space (need to have cage instead of hold)...
Science package installed into hold...sorta like the Deep Space Scanner escort mission except you the one flying the way points to scan...