Favorite ships discussion GO!

[Dave]

What're your favorite M1-7s?
I'm flying a Vidar as my personal ship, but I also love the Centaur. The Cerberus has good turret coverage (typical Argon ship design, it's is amazingly average at everything). I rocked a Nova back in the early days.

[Set-115689]

In x3tc for m1 I usually use the colossus but the raptor, tokoyo, condor and pretty much any m1 work well depending on your play style and fighter set up.
M2 boreas even though I never use it
M3 - for carriers people would probably say falcon hauler because of shields + cargo space for energy bolt chaingun ammo and missiles. For a personal m3 nova raider works.
m4 - solano for carriers because they are almost like an m3 but cheaper and have an uncanny survival rate
m5 - discoverer raider has m class cargo hold so can use jump drives and transport passengers with a top speed of 439 m/s kestrel can also do the same at 605 m/s
m6 - skiron
m7 - panther or tiger
m7m - aquilo for combat , cobra for boarding
m8 - viper just for speed , claymore can use phantom missiles that take up 1 unit of cargo space

Theres lots of other ships you can get latter in the game . Your probably better off asking what are the worst ships since most ships can be made to work in the game if you adapt to their weaknesses.

[Dave]

That just it though, I enjoy hearing what combinations people come up with. Everyone brings something unique to the table. I recently found myself in possession of an Argon Griffon (M7). For spoilers sake, I won't say how I got it, but I'm loving it. At 124m/s it's almost as fast as the Vidar (128m/s), 4GJs of shielding, with good turret coverage and decent energy recharge. I've got 4 CIGs in the main array, CFAs in the front turret (effectively doubling my forward firepower under 2km and PERFECT for swatting away any fighters that get inside my turn radius), and FAAs on the rest of the turrets (m5s and m4s pop pretty much in 1 shot). Not to mention it's got 9 hangar slots. I'm thinking about decking out 6 Solanos (the other 3 slots are occupied) and throwing them into a wing. (Just worried the flak arrays will damage em.)

[Sr Togar van Noelton the 27th]

wont hurt your fighters if you have docking computer on all of them thats why its my fav (griffen) just took a hard mission of protect my station 3 q 4 ks 2 j 30 ls

[3Dguy]

I have a special love for the Teladi Kestrel, it´s the fastest ship in the game and i always purchase one for every ship with a fighter bay.
For the first corvette, i always get the split dragon: is cheap, fastest corvette (before you´re able to buy a Springblossom) and equip it with 8 Plasma burst generators and you have your first capital ship killer.
For the M7, i switched from the Paranid Deimos for the Split Panther: even with 2 giga less shields, the speed and fighther bay is more pratical for missions, plus the number of FAAs make it a great M7 fighter killer.
In the carrier class, i abandoned the Split Raptor in favor of the Tokio, because the Raptor was too Nerfed since Reunion (c´mon, 4 giga? Get out!).
My favorite destroyer will always be the OTAS Boreas, the ship is really the best heavy hitter.
For Ship capturing, the OTAS Skiron is a nice shield drain/marine killer, while the Split Cobra is the best boarding pod launcher, excelent for pirate corvettes and pirate military transports.
When it comes to capital ship capturing, i use the Cerberus for the shield drain/marine kill (if is a ship from a mission) or the Springblossom for shield drain, if is a outside-mission prey.
Springblossom is particularly more efficient in a variety of situations, since it´s agile enough to run away for shield regen if it´s too beaten up, and eight frontal MMLs plus the side energy flak make it the best ship in the entire game.

[Jaramr]

In XRM ive been flying a centaur sentinel as my playership for a while, and the TS that ive been using the most is the Mistral SF, if only for the sexy redesign it has.

[Ryukaa]

Split Panther for me. Working on my Kyoto right now, maybe 1-2 hours to go.
I like to have my Medusa-Fleet with me :)

[desertdream69]

Fav ship is the Zeus. Great speed for an m1, 3 sets of 2gj shields, good hull, great all arounder for large ship. Fav escort would be Griffin. (Although tight second would be Panther). USe Split Cobra extensively! keeping a pretty good stream of Yaki destroyers en route to Argon shipyard for sale (Over 70mil apiece). Panther a fav for soing missions due to its speed and flexibility.

[chris28lee]

I fly mostly in my deimos, it can handle almost anything with the IBLs for capital ships, and carries my kestral for faster traveling and a wing of 5 blastclaw protos, for extra storage.

[wextkd]

SpringBlossom for me Usually fitted out with Prototype Shockwave Cannons for both anti missle and coverage against enemy fighters and Prototype Matter /Anti Matter Cannons for everything else up to M7s I stay away from engaging Capitals relying on my own heavies to deal with them

[BDK]

Panther is my favorite. You can store up to 31 ships in there, it's fast, it's got good shielding, awesome firepower and it's a proper M7 (a.k.a. huge).

[Dave]

I recently got the Xperimental Shuttle. Man that thing is a blast. Fast, well shielded, and 6EMPs to boot! But I'm absolutely terrified I'm gonna get it blown up and lost forever. I ALWAYS keep it secured on my Griffon, which is my Flagship for the moment.

[sWanker(Uvirith)]

There were so many gorgeous M7s in the vanilla and even more with a handful of mods. I used to charge around with two Panther M7s, stocked em' up with a full bank of FAAs, CIGs, PACs and MARS and it became a pretty resiliant little carrier. Throw in 30 Split Chimeras decked out with HEPTs and Thunderbolt missiles and you've got yourself an anti-capital scourge which would make even the Overmind jealous. The second panther had a wing of 30 EBC Chimeras which filleted a Khaak cluster faster than firestorm torpedo up the snooter. On the down side, it was a damn expensive wing to replace.

When it comes to M2s you can't go past the pocket destroyer Boreas, though I admit that made life a little too easy (Smallest and fastest M2 with a broadside of 16 PPC and 4 IBL!?). The Boron Ray was odd, the turret positioning put the left and right batteries up towards the nose which meant you could track a target across your nose without breaking fire. Throw in a mix of ICs/PPCs and half decent pilot and you've got an M2 which could skillfully take out 3 Osakas simultaneously. The Boreas could do 6.

As for M6s, I can't go past the Heavy Centaur. Honestly, just look at the sexy beast.
M1s seemed relatively pointless to me when you've got the Panther. The Tokyo was probably the strongest carrier in the game, but obtaining any volume of Terran weapons was nigh impossible.

The Terran M3s had excellent stats, however EMPCs were horribly boring to shoot and impossible to obtain. The Chimera though, that was a beast - 187ms, 75MJ shielding and 8750MJ laser generator! It even had a front and rear PBE mounting turrets for missile defence making it the perfect fleet fighter. The venti looked gorgeous with a full compliment of weapons, however the generator was a lemon so I filled it with 10 EBCs, and never let go of the fire button (it sounded fantastic).

M4s I never bothered with, M5s weren't a big issue, all the did was map sectors and scan roids'.

TS's were a big deal though, the three I used most were the Mistral, Mistral SF and Caiman SF. The mistral looked pretty cool and was wonderfully fast, the Mistral SF had the best cargo/speed ratio and the Caiman SF came in at a close second. None of the other ships were really with considering to me.

[JP]

Spacesuit

[Maximum]

The Teladi Vulture hauler, set up universe trader on 10 or more of those bad boys and you get credits flying out of every orifice :D then the Teladi kestral, so fast and evades so much fire :P (yes i am a trading man :))