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Arrastra Discussion (citizensgaming.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I haven't been this excited for a ship in a while.

To me it completely replaces the MOLE, even for undercrewed operations, and potentially even for occasional solo use, since most of the functionality is centralised on the bridge, so you won't have to run down ladders and elevators to reach the mining heads, plus they are on rails now so no need to swap back and forth to the pilot seat to make small adjustments. Of course, it really depends on how engineering gameplay impacts large ships with small/solo crews.

And 500+ scu of cargo? Crazy. It's even got a tractor beam for loading/unloading.

For me it was an instant buy (well, upgrade). Anyone else?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I definitely feel this makes the mole obsolete. Obviously won't know for sure until it's in game but I'm struggling to come up with any reason why a crew of any size would take the mole over the arrastra assuming they had access to both, but maybe once it's actually flyable the extra size and bulk will mean it is preferable to take the mole for some jobs, idk.

I do feel that both the prospector and Orion still have a strong enough niche that the arrastra doesn't make them obsolete at all though, imo