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UIT Exile Raptor

Nov 06, 2012 Kierky link
This ship I thought up when playing with the raptor. Its design is fine, but there needs to be something better than just playing in storms. With this suggestion, it is balanced in the realms of space, however in storms, it has a huge advantage, which is how it was supposed to be from the beginning.
This ship brings about balance to the UIT, which have been severely overpowered by Prometheus' and Valkyries.
This ship will be manufacturable, much like the superlight, to maintain balance.
If the Devs would give the green light to this suggestion, then I will make the mission needed to craft it.

UIT Exile Raptor
Faction: UIT
Standing: =>850
Level: 6/7/3/2/-
Armor: 9200 (+700 from Mk2)
Cargo: 3 (-5 from Mk2)
Weapons: 2x Small Ports
Mass: 3800 (-100 from Mk2)
Length: 17m
Thrust: 225N (+10 from Mk2)
Turbo Thrust: 285N (-15 from Mk2)
Max Speed: 70 m/s (+10m/s from Mk2)
Spin Torque: 9 Nm (+0.5 from Mk2)
Turbo Speed: 223 m/s
Turbo Energy: 60/s [Edited from 61]

Special Additions:
1500m StormRange Radar Extension.
[ REMOVED 16 grid. ]
Please Discuss.
Nov 06, 2012 tarenty link
Instead of 61, leave it at 60. The devs have stated that weird energy drains are complicated.

+1, except for grid. It's tough enough without two widows. I also don't think manufacturing it is the way to go if you want to match it against valks and proms, unless the requirements are somewhat more sensible than the SL's.
Nov 06, 2012 Kierky link
Hm, yes. Okay.
The requirements would be roughly a third of what the SL mission requires.
And local items too, so it's not too annoying.
Nov 07, 2012 pirren link
Make cargo hold at least 8 as it is in mk2, or even more - 10. This ship is ion storm fighter and should be able to loot a little valuable cargo in storm as well.
+ Id' make it hard to get (like Cent Superlight), but cheap to repair.
Nov 07, 2012 ryan reign link
+1... Only because if we are never getting new ships, we may as well continue choking on variants, even though this proposed variant is useless.
Nov 07, 2012 TheRedSpy link
lol, i'm with ryan's reasoning..
Nov 07, 2012 tarenty link
It's a fighter. No cargo.
Nov 07, 2012 Alloh link
+1 to ANY improvement on Craptors...

But I'd surely prefer to make it a HEAVY fighter, with 2L ports and more armour. This beast is HUGE, so should be heavy and sturdy. A sort of Assault Fighter, without the fine eletronics/sensors!

And since it is probably the largest fighter, why so little storage? Give it 12 or more...
Nov 07, 2012 abortretryfail link
This won't matter until Ion Storms are more relevant to gameplay. As it currently is with the sector origin jump point, the time ships spend in storms is negligible. Add to that most people just avoid them with crap like NavComp, and it's pretty silly to ever fly a Raptor of any variant.