I barely use default ships anymore, even ships from the mods. My inner Corvus Scavenger scavenging instinct kicked in the moment I first laid my eyes upon the Hermit-class from the pictures on google, didn't know at first what name and class it was until I found out later that it was from a back-then-outdated mod Tore Up Plenty but I knew for sure that I needed to mod the ship into the game with even more overpowered iteration/version of it for my own enjoyment after searching for the origins of the Hermit.
If I was still using default ships more often I'd try find something that isn't too slow but still has enough potential to be a fast tank with heavy duty weaponry. With a maxed out god-like character I have been able to make ships like Falcon, Eagle and especially Hammerhead work for my style of playing and approach to battle. Hammerhead is a ship I first flew in some newer version of the game and so I remember ditching my usage of both Falcon and Eagle, found out by accident while trying to find a place to buy an Eagle or a Falcon and so I was stuck with Hammerhead and when I did found the two bigger ships on sale I went "
meh.. too slow." and instead I just customized in-game my Hammerhead with my kind of weaponry.
Got bored once I realized that there isn't much to battle with as back then it was basically just two to three factions (Hegemony, Pirates and Tri-Tachyon) and about one star system or two.
Fast forward to recent year and months. I'm having a blast across vast distances of space in-game with exploring, surveying, exterminating hostiles and finding the areas of the game where it manages to zone me out and so it all becomes an awesome time-sink. Especially with flying my own config added and edited super versions of ships I already like but prefer to use them as harbingers of armageddon with symmetrical aesthetics (
asymmetry makes me think way too much about where the darn center of mass actually is).
And Onslaught is too large and slug-slow for me as I just can't use it as my pursuit commando ship and I rarely have more ships than one or three in my "fleet" and when I do have tried having about 8-12 ships in my fleet I end up with the same darn issues I have in strategy games: babysitting and giving orders to multiple units. I can't multi-task very well or at all and so I don't bother much with it and it creates this effect of me firing at my own ships until realizing that "whoops, I think most of them were in my fleet. *facepalm*". That plus if I do give them basic commands at the start of the battle I get rather irritated when ships in my fleet mow down most of the hostile fleets and I get to kill only a small fraction of the fleet(s). Its why I frelling hate having companions in RPG games. For me the satisfaction resides being a one-man-army as I feel awesome stress relief when I get to use one favorite/highly preferred ship and steamroll entire fleets of ships of a faction or of multiple factions in SS.
