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Blueprint: Small Vessel
Custom: Airtight
Tags: Blueprint
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Merc-MX5E-C

Description
Role
PvE explorer / Starter ship / Combat with T3 upgrade
Unlock level
10 (12 for T3)
Primary purpose
Discover / Collect / Long-term missions
Properties
Requires no rare resources / Convenient / Upgradable / Designed for FPV

This is a rebuilt variant of the ship Merc-MX5E (2020 version) by jrandall. The CPU conformity remains the same as the original.

For one of my survival saves I was looking for a comfortable and beautiful PvE starter ship that didn't have too high level requirements. I've looked at a number of ships, but none of them appealed to me until I watched the MX5E in creative mode. I already liked the exterior of the MX5E very much and when I entered the interior, it was immediately clear that I had found the ship I was looking for. A great ship!

However, there was one thing I didn't like, since I value immersion: Only a pre-built cockpit was used. The disadvantage of this is that after leaving the cockpit, you stand on the cockpit and outside the ship, which is not advantageous in terms of immersion. This is also not ideal in a dangerous environment. That's why I rebuilt the ship accordingly, so that this detail also corresponded to my ideas. I play all games in FPV mode and sandbox games in PvE mode, so these were my main focuses during the conversion. I tried to keep the original design as good as possible when making the changes.

At this point many thanks again to jrandall for the ingenious ship design. Unfortunately, I'm not particularly talented in the field of design, but professionally I work among other things as a programmer and my strength is more in the field of program and circuit logic. That's why my own ships all look boring, but have a lot of comfort and automatism.

The additional "C" in the type identifier stands for Cockpit & Circuits, since I have rewired the entire electrical system in addition to the new cockpit.

See Change Notes for details.
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dk 5 Mar, 2024 @ 5:52pm 
I never comment but you really did a nice job and thanks for keeping it up to date. The view is great in both views.
Drakkath  [author] 22 Jan, 2024 @ 10:34am 
@KaylaKaze

That's right, the cockpit can't withstand any fire, and in my case it doesn't have to. ^^ My goal was to rebuild the ship so that the immersion was right and that I liked the ship. I have achieved this goal; I have already spent hundreds of hours with the MX5E-C.

As for the passenger seats, that wasn't a question of necessity but also a question of immersion.
KaylaKaze 18 Jan, 2024 @ 10:20pm 
I really like this design but it feels like it's made out of paper and if there's a hull breach anywhere, you don't have your pilot protected like if they were in a standalone cockpit. The passenger seats are also completely unnecessary and should be optional, especially since one of them gets in the way really badly.
Drakkath  [author] 12 Jun, 2023 @ 12:56pm 
Revision 5 released.
Drakkath  [author] 18 May, 2023 @ 4:00am 
@HotspoT

Danke. :-)

Ja, bei einem SV mit Innenraum sollte auch das Cockpit ein Teil davon sein, damit sich das glaubwürdig anfühlt. Für mich ist das wichtig, da ich hieraus einen grossen Teil des Spasses ziehe. Bei einem kleinen Ein-Mann-SV ohne Innenraum geht ein vorgefertigtes Cockpit natürlich in Ordnung. Aber zu der Kategorie gehört die MX5E eigentlich nicht.

jrandall hat das vorgefertigte Cockpit verwendet, weil das natürlich wesentlich robuster ist. Das ist für mich jedoch nicht relevant, da ich die MX5E primär zum Entdecken und Sammeln nutze, nicht zum Kämpfen. Und mit Upgrade auf T3 kann man durchaus den einen oder anderen Kampf bestehen, aber das ist für mich sekundär.
HotspoT 14 May, 2023 @ 2:44pm 
Super Schiff, bin genau der gleichen Meinung wie der Erbauer. Jrandall hat ein tolles Schiff gebaut aber das Cockpit ist hier deutlich stimmungsvoller. Vielen Dank für dieses Schiff
spwade666 17 Mar, 2023 @ 8:08am 
@Drakkath Nice work, time to give it another try :-D
Drakkath  [author] 17 Mar, 2023 @ 6:27am 
Revision 4 released which fixes the issue where you get positioned outside the ship when exiting the pilot's seat. The cause was one of the Empyrion updates since v1.8.8. Details as always in the changelog.
Drakkath  [author] 16 Mar, 2023 @ 12:21pm 
@spwade666
I'm just seeing this comment now, I didn't get an email.

The fact that you are not outside the ship when you leave the cockpit seat was exactly the main reason why I did this, by the way, very complex conversion. I tested it now.

Heck, one of the recent updates is responsible for this problem. :-(
I haven't played the game since last summer due to lack of time.

I'll take a look.
spwade666 14 Feb, 2023 @ 12:43pm 
I had so many hopes for this ship, unfortunately dashed the first time I used it. Default appears to be power save as I couldn't take off lol. When I used f to exit the cockpit I was standing on the top of the ship, It looks great, but it's more expensive and doesn't give the safe harvesting I was expecting. I'm hoping it's a glitch, but my search continues