@Vasilis Makaronis The shield is mostly useful for NPCs indeed, but more importantly as a damage buffer for high-grav planetary landings.

I took my anaconda on DW2 kitted out as a fuel rat. Fonda might be the best explorer in the game but I find it cumbersome and boring to fly. I kind of wish I had taken my phantom or AspX on DW2 but neither could quite be kitted out exactly as I wanted for the role. My conda was loaded up to the hilt with everything including the kitchen sink and still got 61ly jump range. Just wasn’t much fun

So I should be Engineering D-Rated modules for better jump, not A-rated with mass-reduction???

could you link your build?

also, in the same level of engineering the Krait Phantom has a little bit more jump distance than the Aspx

I personally think it's the best exploration ship in the game. Mine has a 70LY jump range, slightly better than my Asp's 68LY, and the Phantom doesn't look like a 1980s pickup truck inside. Part of the joy of exploring is seeing the beauty that galaxy has to offer, and the Phantom doesn't taint that beauty with a hideous cockpit. Sure, the Anaconda beats it in sheer range, but the Phantom is much more maneuverable and fun to fly, easier to scoop from neutron stars, and far more reasonable to land on planets.

And the Phantom looks 10 times better

all of these are correct

AspX constant "engine" noise is a real put off for me. Plus you can make a decent combat ship out of both Kraits for pve and pvp.

No.

Nobody disagrees. Th aspX looks like a 20 year old pickup truck your dad gave you, and the Phantom looks like a sleek sedan you bought yourself. Phantom also has better stats, but who cares about those?

Agreed 100% It's a much better Expo ship than a Bubble Bus...

I flew my Phantom to Beagle Point and back in DW2 - I'd rather fly it on long duration than ANY OTHER SHIP period

I like to have the option to fly an SLF over a particulary interesting planet surface. For me it was worth about 5 ly jumprange, I just see more systems for a set distance, so more exploration. Or to goof around with other explorers on an expedition. So Mk2 is best in the class.

I loved it ever since i bought my first, it really is the face of exploration for me

Uuuhh... Wrong? The mk2 is supposed to be the better overall... The phantom is for exploration, smuggling... Bruh.

But for mining, it competes with the python. But hey, if you want to mine in a phantom, mine in a phantom. You're not hurting anyone.(except those poor asteroids you're probing and ripping apart with laser beams...)

And the phantom doesn't sound like it's constantly farting as you fly around

I keep going back to my AspX. Easy to maneuver, fantastic visibility, jumps mega-far, carries an SRV and my friend can co-pilot. What's not to love ?

Nothing wrong with loving a ship. I think the vulture is perfectly fine for bounty hunting and a Krait MK2 is honestly overkill, but don't expect that vulture to do any AX work for you, that is where the Krait MK2 shines.

@@noahpennington6173 hello I know this is 5 months later lol but whats ax work?

@@dd7aa hello i Know this is 5 months later. AX stands for Anti-Xenon :)

Well, you’d sort of expect it to be better than the AspX in almost every aspect, since it’s about 10 times the cost of the AspX!

You don't have to be afraid about thargoids. If you make an encounter, just fly away. There is (was?) a scripted encounter where they shut down your ship and make a scan but they don't attack you and after a reboot you can continue your journey. Other encounters (interdictions) are free to leave. And others spots are signals (non human signals) where you have to enter by will, like combat zone. I didn't play around thargoids zones for a while, someone will correct me if I am wrong but the thing is : if you don't want to fight ET you don't need to be prepared for. I hope this is the answer you asked for, sometimes I missunderstand english ^^

@@ULTIMBANGA thank you! I'd really like to head to pleiades as my first long range trip, because its my favorite group of stars in real life.. then I started doing a little bit of reserch on it in ED and got a little worried lol. The only interdictions I'm slighty worried about are those from other commanders. I don't plan on hauling cargo, but there's a little voice in my head that (too often) thinks "what if". Thanks again!

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I think a type 9 or conda. but i i will make a build video for "deep space" mining

Same, I would like see those

He did say that though

@UsmValor For the price, the aspX will take you a long way with mining. By the time you can afford a krait you're better off getting a mk2 or a python for mining.

I’m working on one with my Phantom

@@BlackhawkTDI If you could post the coriolis link here once finished, I will appreciate it :)

I'm inclined to agree with you but I had a clanmate who was a diehard "small and agile" fighter player (loved his Eagles, Vultures and such) and the only medium ship she could tolerate was a Phantom. She tried kitting out a MkII but I guess the added mass made it feel a bit more sluggish. I've never seen a player as twitch combat focused (she'd hunt pythons and even 'condas with eagles in res zones) but the Phantom was her dream ship. It flew just close enough to a fighter but gave her access to all those big nasty modules. I guess it's a niche sort of appeal? Personally, I've got a three Mk II's (a bounty hunter, an anti-xeno and a core miner) and a pair of phantoms (an explorer and a "long-ranged miner"). The latter is basically a hybrid explorer/mining build that's set up to just pick a pretty looking star system within a few thousand LY and go mining there for a change of scenery. I built her to do one particular task so she's a very odd duck. She's stripped down explorer-style but lacks the usual self-sustaining modules for long stretches in the black, instead she'd got enough cargo space and limpets for a profitable bit of space tourism (and still jumps over 50LY with a full load of limpets or ore). I got tired of seeing all those pristine looking hotspots in empty systems and wanted the ability to mine them. It's not a min-max mining build (my core miner Mk II and my big laser mining 'Conda and T10 turn better profit) but more of a "I want to mine in the pretty nebula tonight" build.

they are both gonna have a class 6 fuel scoop in a explorer built

BTW when will the giveaway people be selected

That's exactly how I have mine and it's freaking awesome. I tried the mk2 but wasn't able to change the fighter bay slot for something else and that put me off the ship. I rather have the Python over the mk2 also.

Forgive my ignorance, I'm a newbie. But what does "pirate long range strike craft" mean? It sounds great!