Dude, where's my ship?

SGCharest · Post by **SGCharest** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:08 pm

So I trade in the old Llama for a hot new Admonisher. I go wandering all over the universe looking for something or other. Then I decide I want to sell my old Llama.

How do I find where I left it? Or is it better just to shell out the cr6,000 and have it transported?

sgc

Tarran · Post by **Tarran** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:33 pm

as far as I'm aware, you can't sell your old llama.. (the one you start with).. you can only have it moved to you.. however.. as I've discovered many times, thats not a bad thing.. as I've had my favorite ship destroyed leaving me penniless more than once.. and that llama came in handy

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:40 pm

yeah limping back to a base in an escape pod is tedious have you noticed that the pod becomes part of your "Fleet" and you can even sell yourself

it's listed as pilot

Enjoy the Choice

Tarran · Post by **Tarran** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:30 am

can't wait till some of those rebalances come in.. limping back, and selling off my escape pod for -5000 is nasty buisness.. but I guess its better than finding yourself in a system with no trade planets in an escape pod

cleverandamusingname · Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:03 am

SGCharest wrote:So I trade in the old Llama for a hot new Admonisher. I go wandering all over the universe looking for something or other. Then I decide I want to sell my old Llama.

How do I find where I left it? Or is it better just to shell out the cr6,000 and have it transported?

sgc

In the load/save game screen, your fleet & locations are listed on the right.

daschapa · Post by **daschapa** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:42 am

Llama is a great ship, with the correct upgrades you can make it virtually invincible.
if you equip it with milspec armor and hull upgrades, and then, you equip it again with a normal hull upgrade (you can equip a milspec and normal hull upgrade at the same time) you can get aprox 20000MJ of sustaintable damage.
shields 4 level 3 or 4, and a good reactor plus autotracking and razor guns gives you a very good punch.
Manouveriong trusters enhance the turning speed an acceleration.
Then, talk about cloaking device. you can aproach cloaked to your enemy's six, then, de-cloak and fire in his ass. When things goes black, cloak again.
I know that you can't do it all you want, and that i'm talking about very much money, but Llama is a very good ship. It is the most versatile ship in the game.
(Excuse my bad english)

Gilesey · Post by **Gilesey** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:42 am

The llama is a great all round ship - almost too good to be a starting ship. Sometimes i think it would be better off to start with something really cheap and nasty like a dodo or hyena.

It's like starting off with a Cobra Mk III in Elite - you're almost halfway there already.

Spock · Post by **Spock** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:42 am

What? Hyenas are amazing dogfighters, Llamas suck to me. I guess it's based on opinion in this case, as right when I started I got into as many space battles as I could. Llama's are alright for cargo, =/, but Hyenas (in my opinion) can be upgraded better with the right weapons and all.

Ryder P. Moses · Post by **Ryder P. Moses** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:32 am

Yes, the Llama is entirely too tolerable, one could even concieve of enjoying the game while flying it. After all, we want our players to suffer. Let's stick them in some godawful tub like the Plowshare so that it takes fifteen minutes to travel from planet to planet and they'll die the instant a pirate even looks at them.

Ooh, I've got it, let's start them out with nothing but an escape pod and fifty credits to their name!

Is the Llama versatile? Sure, and that makes it a great introduction ship for the player, they can learn all about the different subsystems- not that there's all that much to learn at this point. Does it fly like a cow, have fewer hitpoints than a sheet of kleenex, and cost more to upgrade to something resembling something decent than it would take to buy an entirely new ship? Mmmyep. I was really shocked by how much more fun the game got once I savehacked my way out of that horrible horrible ship into another one- I could actually win fights! And steer! Oh, man, the steering. I could've spent hours just going out in space and flying in circles. It did finally get old after a while, but still.

The whole tradition of forcing the player to start with the crappiest, least useful, least fun vehicle/weapon/etc. in the entire game universe was just created as an artificial way to force playtime to stretch out longer by lazy commercial devs approaching deadline anyway. If we can't find a better, less player-abusive way to make upgrading or replacing one's ship desirable, that calls into question whether there's any point to the upgrade/replacement system in the game.

daschapa · Post by **daschapa** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:44 pm

Spock wrote:What? Hyenas are amazing dogfighters, Llamas suck to me. I guess it's based on opinion in this case, as right when I started I got into as many space battles as I could. Llama's are alright for cargo, =/, but Hyenas (in my opinion) can be upgraded better with the right weapons and all.

Hyenas are good ships dogfighting, but doesn't fit in general purpose as Llamas does.

Dark-Blood-Hound · Post by **Dark-Blood-Hound** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:31 pm

I just thought you go to a shipyard on a planet/station and your llama will be under "My Fleet" if your currently using another ship, and *I THINK
it is selleble.

Dark-Blood-Hound · Post by **Dark-Blood-Hound** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:32 pm

I just thought you go to a shipyard on a planet/station and your llama will be under "My Fleet" if your currently using another ship, and *I THINK
it is selleble. Please correct me if I'm wrong?

Post by **loki1950** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:32 pm

gotta put it somewhere but you can't sell your llama.begin ATM

Enjoy the Choice

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