The Albion Skunk

[DarthVain]

I'm very excited about this new sim and look forward to buying this. I'm trying find a post whre there's a picture of our ship 'The Albion Skunk' and Am I right in saying that the cockpit pictures I've seen in earlier picturea are from The Albion Skunk?

[Dr2i]

The following ship is probably the skunk from behind.
You can find a front pic on the site of egosoft under games x rebirth.
The cockpit pics u saw are from the skunk yes.

[Alan Phipps]

See this too.

[Harada Taro]

Hoping this won't be the sole ship we can pilot cause i'm gonna drop it as soon as possible looks no more heavy than a heavy firgther of small corvette.... Nothing of real interest to me.

[Chobittsu]

Hoping this won't be the sole ship we can pilot cause i'm gonna drop it as soon as possible looks no more heavy than a heavy firgther of small corvette.... Nothing of real interest to me.

Two words: Millennium Falcon

She was little more than a tin can full of s*** but Han Solo turned it into the most badass ship in Star Wars. So before you go bi***ing about the Skunk learn what it can do and what you can do with it first

[Noimageavaiable]

Hoping this won't be the sole ship we can pilot cause i'm gonna drop it as soon as possible looks no more heavy than a heavy firgther of small corvette.... Nothing of real interest to me.

This has been confirmed a long time ago, you won't be able to pilot any ship other than the Skunk.

Two words: Millennium Falcon

I'll take the Executor over that overrated tin-can any day, thank you.

[Harada Taro]

Hoping this won't be the sole ship we can pilot cause i'm gonna drop it as soon as possible looks no more heavy than a heavy firgther of small corvette.... Nothing of real interest to me.

This has been confirmed a long time ago, you won't be able to pilot any ship other than the Skunk.

So the game won't be mine and is no more an X-style game. X offered us the possibilities to fly anything that was in game...

[brucewarren]

You want the Executor? That bucket of bolts. It may have a big cannon but it handles so badly that when the Death Star exploded it actually rammed into the next Star Destroyer down the lot. At least the Falcon is manoueverable. Besides at 6 miles long it's very hard to find a parking space. I suppose true for a Death Star, but that thing can make it's own parking space.

Back on topic. You can't fly other ships *directly*. You can command drones via the VR helmet and by all accounts drones will be very capable. You'll also be able to give orders to capital ships via their crew.

[Master of the Blade]

As far as I can tell, you will be able to *own* pretty much all ships, but smaller ships and transports will be drones controlled from the Albion Skunk - basically the same as now, except you don't die if your ship falls apart. Your battleships will behave as if you're the admiral onboard, not the navigator, helmsman and engine crew all in one - you'll be giving orders to those people, which I think is rather cool.

[Harada Taro]

As far as I can tell, you will be able to *own* pretty much all ships, but smaller ships and transports will be drones controlled from the Albion Skunk - basically the same as now, except you don't die if your ship falls apart. Your battleships will behave as if you're the admiral onboard, not the navigator, helmsman and engine crew all in one - you'll be giving orders to those people, which I think is rather cool.

That's precisely on that point that i'm eager to learn everything on how precise are the orders you will able to give on the command bridge. I just want to be like Piccard in the captain's seat of the enterprise. He gives orders, the crew follows them.

And if such is possible, be sure as soon as I can gain a capital ship or anything bigger than a heavy fighter/small frigate the Albion seems to be. I will kick that junk into a starbase hanger and turn the light down forever. Only playing from the capital ship.

Plus I have in the modding community to bring us a mod that will transfer the Albion bridge on any other type of ship and give us full control of them.

[Jeraal]

When I see those pics, I think of a line from Predator. "One ugly mother@#%&*@"
But that's MY opinion, I'm sure others feel differently.

[Noimageavaiable]

And if such is possible, be sure as soon as I can gain a capital ship or anything bigger than a heavy fighter/small frigate the Albion seems to be. I will kick that junk into a starbase hanger and turn the light down forever. Only playing from the capital ship.

Same here, but I'm very pessimistic about that. From what we know ordering your captain around could be just the same old command menu just with the picture of a captain next to it, kinda like hired TLs right now. Doesn't help that Bernd stated way back in the No capships thread that you won't be standing on the bridge IIRC.

[Nanook]

We already have another, long-lived thread here concerning what ships we can and cannot control/fly. Don't really think we need another.