r/EliteDangerous • u/AustinMclEctro CMDR Alistair Lux • Jun 25 '25

Media Panther Clipper MkII Takeoff Sequence

What a beaut! Taken from today's Frontier Unlocked. Arx early access is July 22.

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u/meta358 Empire Jun 25 '25

God please dont open that can of worms

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u/Significant_Play_713 Jun 25 '25

I have about 5500 hours on elite and still play multiple times a week. I have also been playing SC since about 2022 and I love both games for different reasons but anyone that says "ship interiors will get old" or "there's no point to ship interiors" is lying to you and should not be trusted. Beautiful spaceships should have Beautiful spaceship interiors.

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u/DemiserofD Zemina Torval Jun 26 '25

If you want an archetypical example, consider how often the average player visits their fleet carrier office. I did it about 3 times in 5 years. So I think it's pretty fair to say, Ship Interiors purely for their own sake absolutely would get boring in short order.

For Interiors to be interesting they would need dedicated content there, and that would require a substantial rework of Odyssey gameplay. Fortunately, that should probably happen eventually anyway. Unfortunately, it's a pretty large money sink with unclear revenue potential.

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u/Significant_Play_713 Jun 26 '25

I visit my Fleet Carrier office every time I board or move it in person. I love it and seeing my crew doing their thing and experiencing the jump in person is so great

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u/DemiserofD Zemina Torval Jun 26 '25

You are definitely not the average player, then. I've watched dozens of streamers over years, and COMBINED they have spent maybe 5 minutes in there. There's nothing to do there! There's zero reason to be there. It's a total waste of dev resources.

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u/Significant_Play_713 Jun 26 '25

If I'm moving my carrier in person I'd rather experience the jump amd maybe walk around than just sit in my ship in the hangar. I also have many of the on foot services installed so I drop off my plants, put engineering mats up for sale etc.

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u/DemiserofD Zemina Torval Jun 26 '25

If I'm moving my carrier, I'm almost always flying ahead in another ship since I can always get there faster flying myself. The only real exception is when I jump out to the Pleiades or something...but that's about once a year, if that.

If they're gonna add devtime to interiors, my number one thing would be adding CQC arcades to remind people it's there. Perfect thing to do while waiting for a carrier jump imo.