No Country for Old Ships?
So I've been out of Elite for many years (basically since the Odyssey launch which nukes the console platforms) and I've finally to start playing again as I'll hopefully be hoping over to PC version soon as budget allows (need a PC😅) so I've been checking up on the state of the game currently. Clearly a lot has happened, many things have changed and certainly a lot of new ships have been added. I don't want to get into the whole "Pay2Win" side of the discussion as I'm sure it's been done to death but some parts do seem rather clear that the legacy ships, or least decent chunk of them, are rather redundant/obsolete now (especially since the Lynx Liner is just being given out for free for some bizarre reason 🤷).
It got me thinking about game balancing & longevity because eventually you fall into the "one upsman" situation of always trying to out do yourself with each new ship but it also got me thinking in a different way in terms of classic cars. Has anyone considered the possibility of a legacy ships community in the nearish future being formed? Because eventually if all the old ships are made redundant and everyone gravitates towards the newer ships off the bat then I'd imagine veteran players such as myself may lean more favourably into using our legacy ships almost for nostalgic reasons. Forming communities around them as I suspect newer CMDRs will simply never form a bond with them for the as said above reasons.
I thought it was an interesting concept so wanted to pose it to the ED community.