As someone who flies a fully uprated vulture and has come up against a fully uprated Clipper, this already happens. Unless you’re in an uber anaconda, there’s always a bigger fish.
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Yeah, this mechanic is open to abuse. A little too “friendly” and accessible.
Can you instantly travel to the crew f a ship a gazillion light years away, dock and buy your own ship there setting up base without doing the travel.
Just the fact you can insta travel accross the galaxy, even if its just to a crew spot, is a tad disappointing for me.
Ohh well, lets make everything easy in games, because, you know… the eaier it is, the less bored you get
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You’ve only got four hardpoints in a Clipper, with crazy wide spread between the big ones, so there’s that. I honestly think that it might balance itself out, as it’ll come down to how well the gunner can divide their attention and prioritize targets. Everybody shoots at big ships anyway, so the accuracy improvement from having a human gunner might be canceled out by the inability to divide attention of a human gunner.
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That’s true. For PvP there’s always the Uber Engi Conda too, so even if you have infinite funds then you still need to spend the time/effort on the weapons/power engineer upgrade slot machines.
I wonder if this game mechanic will influence the PAX missions, I mean, can’t they beam too? 
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It’s kinda dumb for pax though because now you can just join someone else’s ship and go afk while they make millions doing pax missions. You don’t have to do anything and suddenly you’re rich.
Edit: kinda applies to all no EY making really. But at least for you go afk in combat there’s some risk.
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Some screens from my addventures…
And- why not- something entirely different!
But you’ll need those fancy 3D Glasses
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Starting soon I think:
Mustache in the middle pic look more like Dirty Sanchez… (NSFW, don’t google it)
For the hardcore sim people here at Mudspike, this might be a cool thing to join. I would, if I played enough E:D to actually become part of such a close group
Go ahead, do it! Represent Mudspike in the Elite world and show all the commanders out there how cool we are!
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Full video of thwe Stream available.
Guys!
Guys?
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There could be a big surprise for the next Elite release!
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/329555-Ship-names
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this is really that exciting for people? lol
Eh, could be fun lol I wouldn’t mind the feature but it’s not a game breaker. I just want atmospheric landings!
I must be honest- it’s a really personal thing here.
So… yeah I can totally understand how someone can totally shrug at it, really. 
It’s just that I remember being 6 at school, during the after-lunch break, what I always played at was “Spaceship” and I have the almost physical need to call my ship “Ragno Rosso”.
I. Need. IT.
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I love being able to personalize things - whether it be liveries, or adding a name to a canopy rail…or, in the case of Jane’s F-15 - renaming the SEAD escort flight to be manned by ex-girlfriends. Go get em’ gals…I’m not mad at ya’…
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Still no 2.3 Commanders or 2.4 Hyper Nova Nuclear weaponry
Doesn’t matter. Don’t have the time to play it anymore
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That’s brilliant. How did I never think of that??