Class 4 Weapon ships worth it?

[SirRedeemer]

As I am starting to get close to enough money to buy an andiconda, I have been trying to research how effective the class 4 weapons are. As far as I can see there is only a class 4 cannon and plasma right now, both of which people have been complaining that they are to hard to use for the ammount of damage done.

So my question is this, does it make sense to buy the largest ships in the game? Corvette, conda, and cutter are super tough and have loads of mounts, but I am not sure that the class 4 are very useful for the amount of money you will need to put into it if there are only 2 weapon options. Thanks in advance for your contructive comments!

[Ember]

I don't quite have the money to buy any of the ships in the live game (besides the Fer De-Lance, but I didn't like it very much when I did own one). However, I did use the Corvette during the 2.0 Beta and can say that if you spend some time to learn how to use the class 4 plasma accelerators properly that they are extremely effective at taking down pretty much anything Cobra Mk.III sized or larger. They do a ton of damage against both shields and hull, are super effective at taking down modules, and have enough ammo to last for quite a while in a RES or CZ.

No idea about the cannon, but I assume it's a similar story against hulls, a bit easier to use though since there's a gimbaled version.

And ofc you can always equip a large weapon onto a huge hardpoint if you don't want to use the huge PA or Cannon.

[LichTIK]

Well, it depends on what you want to do with the ship. For PvP I'd say C4 weapons are fairly inconsisten given they are slow and require fairly precise aiming to hit even a medium ship. If you want to go PvE Bounty Hunting, I'd say Corvette and FDL are very fast and efficient at using their C4 hardpoins (PAs in particular). I don't know about using C4 weapons on Cutter given its terrible pitch/yaw/roll speed. If you want to use C4 PA I think FDL/Corvette over Conda is your best bet.

Edit: I have been flying FDL since it was released in 1.2. I had been using PA at first as it is so epic of a weapon, but switched to C4 gimb. cannon after I had run into some seriours power issues. As of 1.5 I have switched back to PA and I have to say I enjoy flying FDL much more than Python or FAS for you can cause some serious havoc with that PA of your own (you can effectively 2-shot any ship if you hit their powerplant successfully twice).

[alinonstorm]

The other option is to put a class 3 weapon of your choice in the class 4 slot.