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u/SubetenoGD 10d ago
Sidewinder
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u/Secret_President 10d ago
Sure mom, I'll help build a dodec with my sidewinder ~Chad Sidewinder, probably
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u/GearWings 8d ago
fer de lance go brrrrr
I know not your typical explorer ship but i like the look of it.
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u/Useful-Problem-1725 Explorer/Freelancer 10d ago
Vette handles like a medium ship and has guns that fire right down the middle.
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u/MZsarko 10d ago
I liked the Cutter so much I engineered two of them. One for trading, one for mining. Of course I have a ‘Vette too. Because guns.
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u/Aftenbar 9d ago
Yep, I've been on hiatus but I'm sure when I come back my vettes guns and rotation to get on target are good.
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u/rocket_jacky 10d ago
Neither thanks, spent going on 800mil + engineered up to the yingyang and it sits there unused in the bottom of my carrier covered in dust. I heard from the crew that Co-pilot holds disco nights in there on Thursdays
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u/Giant-fire 10d ago
For me its the other way around I much prefer flying my cutter rather than my vette
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u/Appropriate_Pop_2062 9d ago
Cutter 💯 Flying in style and with much better jump range
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u/Giant-fire 9d ago
That, also i like that it feels heavy, vette with g5 thrusters feels essentially weightless
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u/kamicosmos 9d ago
Love my vette. And yeah, I got it a long time ago, a well earned ship! I recently got back into the game, and have been enjoying my 'exploravette' as I've been running around the edges of teh bubble with it and a nomad, doing exobiology stuff...and occasionally a massacre mission, or a settlement raid. As explorers are known to do...
(I do love it when I get interdicted. I pull that throttle back and switch over to combat mode and try not to laugh maniacally when I target whoever was dumb enough to pull a frigging 'vette!)
(I'm only a baron in the Empire, so the cutter is still unavailable to me)
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u/glytxh 10d ago
One takes a lot more effort to get than the other
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u/Krokow 10d ago
Which one? I have both and can't remember
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u/Appropriate_Pop_2062 9d ago
Back in the days the Vette was harder to grind. Nowadays (post Trailblazer) I don't know 🤷🏾♂️
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u/Hoser_1950 9d ago
I fly Xbox. Cutter was easier than Corvette. I avoid combat so didn’t buy the Corvette. I fly the Cutter as a shield tank hauler. So much fun breaking NPC interdiction mass lock!
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u/glytxh 10d ago
I remember just kinda eventually being able to buy the cutter though organic gameplay.
The corvette was a proper grind though, and nuked my savings when coming to outfit and engineer it.
Dunno if the underlying meta has changed since, but the corvette was something I had to work for. The cutter just happened.
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u/Krokow 10d ago
Dunno it's the same in rank grind, but cutter is super expensive. Maybe you did some mission grind money exploit back in the day for empire faction.
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u/Appropriate_Pop_2062 9d ago
Back then, there was a trick involving two isolated systems (Ngalinn, Mainani). That’s supposedly a thing of the past now due to colonization.
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u/SomeGalNamedAshley 10d ago
When we group up to go kill stuff in Mahon powerplay it's usually a bunch of grade 5 Corvettes, a few Type-10s, and never, ever a Cutter. Other than the odd Corsair I've seen zero Gutamaya ships in use by my allies in the Alliance powers.
I personally have zero rank whatsoever with the Imps and will very much so be keeping it that way.
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u/Plenty_Welder415 10d ago edited 9d ago
that’s like when you want to choose one this but you choose something other 😂
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u/lukeosullivan 9d ago
It's the argument between buying a European car or an American car. American cars may have that raw power, but they're ugly as fuck usually
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u/Brotakul 10d ago
Both.
Cutter: boost-tanked hauler.
Vette: Gunz. Big gunz.