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Iscariot

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LEAST Favorite Ship
« on: February 21, 2012, 09:28:09 AM »

Enough about all this gushing about the cool ships. I wanna know which ones ride the metaphorical short bus. The ships that dropped out of highschool and hang out in the local convenience store parking lot with their trashy friends. The rejects. The fuckups.

I wanna know your LEAST favorite ships.

For me, it's hard to decide between the Sunder and the Brawler. The Brawler is one of the most frustrating frigates to start with, in my opinion, being that it only has those crappy rockets and therefore gets cut to pieces by the Lashers that tend to pick on you in the early game. That said, the Brawler could possibly have some use against slightly slower ships. The Sunder not only cost me money but was friggin' useless, slow, and punching far below its weight.
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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2012, 09:32:33 AM »

Hrm, this is a good question. I used to like the brawler, but my eyes have since been opened to the fact that it's only good for selling and buying a lasher.  :/ 

Probably my least favorite is the shuttle though. You can't even sell it for any real money.  :D
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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2012, 09:33:31 AM »

The brawler is a poor stating ship because its designed to go against destroyers and the like, and operate in a fleet (Since usually you don't have many lone destroyers, and the only ones generally seen are buffalo IIs, and those suck horribly when used without support (because they have no shields, and pretty pathetic armor, and rely almost entirely on missiles))

However, I think my least favorite would be in agreement with Qloos' assessment: http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=20.15

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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2012, 09:34:59 AM »

I've never even SEEN an omen in combat....

Also, stop picking on the shuttle! I murdered two hounds and a talon wing with it.
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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2012, 09:40:50 AM »

Onslaught.
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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2012, 09:41:28 AM »

Never fought inside one of the weaker frigates so can't comment on those.

I do find Enforcer-Class Destroyer and Dominator-Class Cruiser to be the least lovable because they are both slow, look like an ugly meatball, and every single one of them I can get my hands on are apparently "outdated".

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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2012, 09:46:04 AM »

The hound is absolutely terrible, bad hull, bad armor, horrible flux and no shields, not even the fastest frigate or the most maneuvarable one either.
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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2012, 09:46:22 AM »

I've never even SEEN an omen in combat....
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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2012, 09:47:06 AM »

It's been a while since I've done them, which ones?
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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2012, 09:50:09 AM »

I have a couple test missions with them, and the original apogee mission had one but I haven't played that recently, so I don't know if it got dummied out.

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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2012, 10:09:14 AM »

2 slot freighter
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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2012, 10:11:41 AM »

2 slot freighter?
Atlas has 3
Tarsus has 4
Gemini has 3
Buffalo has 1

if you count the tanker...
Dram has 3

I'm pretty sure I got them all

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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2012, 10:43:23 AM »

2 slot freighter?
Atlas has 3
Tarsus has 4
Gemini has 3
Buffalo has 1

if you count the tanker...
Dram has 3

I'm pretty sure I got them all

Probably the hound, then.  :)  I love the hound. It's fast, scrappy, tough, and has hanger space. What other frigate can realistically field talons?

If you hate the hound that bad, you're doing it wrong...
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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2012, 10:45:08 AM »

The hound isn't a freighter, not a real one anyways

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Re: LEAST Favorite Ship
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2012, 10:46:50 AM »

The hound isn't a freighter, not a real one anyways
It's a "combat converted tramp freighter." (shrug) I assumed that was where the confusion is coming from.
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