Who has the best equipment now?

[Project Danny]

Ok so I have my first big ship a Wyvern I like split ships they are fast and look cool.

So I Want to outfit it with the best of the best equipment... what factions have the best equipment now?

Engines: Who?
Shields: Who?
Turrets: Who?

So my guess is for engines always go terran?

For shields also always go terran

But when it comes to turrets I like to use flak... now split turrets have been fixed is it better now to use split flak or argon flak turrets?

Thanks.

Also Boron... what exactly are they good for lol?

[Donauwelle]

Engine PAR(travel) SPL(Combat)
Shields TER (theory boron but yeah....)
Turrets depends.
Plasma PAR
Flak ARG
Beamz TER


Boronships.... are meh....
Im actually playing a Herald campaign, 150 Hrs in the Savegame and damnit i love the Guppy light carrier.
Tons of M turrets, respectable hull/shield, nice speed...
Great ship.
Rest is medioce at best
Totally on par with ARG-TEL-PAR, not su much with TER + SPL

Main prob is actually the AI.
Borons are supposed to use tons of fighters,
said fighters have huge shields but are very slow.
This means the AI will boost all the time wich..... depletes their sweet shields.....
Its stupid AF but my Guppy is carrying Cimeras ATM....
Mako+Bara are.... no not with the perma boost from AI....

They also got a fun Slow-beam wich is quite good for pirating but id take a PAR plasma/TER Beam above those slowguns at any given time...

Hydra is fun as playership tho...

[Project Danny]

Ty for the reply most helpful

But ine question why paranid engines for travel? Every forum post I've read people use terran ones and say terran engines on large ships is best?

I'm all about speed for my traders so I want my large trade ships to be as fast as possible.

[Azrelus]

It's a bit subjective but for me it's:

Engines: ARG/SPL (Depends on the role of the ship, ARG for M, L and XL Civilian ships. ARG for L and XL Capital ships. SPL for S and M Combat ships.
Shields: TEL/TER (TEL for S Fighters, TER for everything else)
Turrets: TER/ARG/SPL (TER Beams, ARG Flak, Split Plasma)

For me, It has been invaluable to have better cruise speeds than acceleration in travel mode. Just a few hours ago I took over an Osaka I have defending a gate because a K got into "death from above" position and was able to get out of the K's range without losing all my shields simply thrusting away because that Osaka goes over 150 m/s.

[alcash]

what did they fix on split flak turrets?

[Tiberius]

Boron has the best anti-fighter turrets (that L ion flak is insane), but they're exclusive to boron ships. I find the difference among racial equipments barely matters, except maybe split mk4 engine, terran mk3 shield, and terran L beam.

[Mythos]

Originally posted by Donauwelle:

Engine PAR(travel) SPL(Combat)
Shields TER (theory boron but yeah....)
Turrets depends.
Plasma PAR
Flak ARG
Beamz TER


Boronships.... are meh....
Im actually playing a Herald campaign, 150 Hrs in the Savegame and damnit i love the Guppy light carrier.
Tons of M turrets, respectable hull/shield, nice speed...
Great ship.
Rest is medioce at best
Totally on par with ARG-TEL-PAR, not su much with TER + SPL

Main prob is actually the AI.
Borons are supposed to use tons of fighters,
said fighters have huge shields but are very slow.
This means the AI will boost all the time wich..... depletes their sweet shields.....
Its stupid AF but my Guppy is carrying Cimeras ATM....
Mako+Bara are.... no not with the perma boost from AI....

They also got a fun Slow-beam wich is quite good for pirating but id take a PAR plasma/TER Beam above those slowguns at any given time...

Hydra is fun as playership tho...

What turrets do you like on the guppy? Also the Boron destroyer? I can't decide what I like.

[Vali]

I play a Boron atm and try to use only Boron ships. Only have a fregatte from argon, because they dont have one.

I really enjoy the tactics and the different playstyle from borons, they are really strong if you like to play with fighter swarms.

All factions have strenghts, if you mix them you are absolutely OP in this game.

[Wraith]

Depend on role

Engines:
S and M civilian ship: Argon (fastest travel drive)
L and XL civilian ship: Terran (fastest acceleration and spool up)

S and M combat ship: Split (base speed) Terran (boost drainage)
L and XL combat ship: Terran

Shields:
S ship: Paranid (fastest recharge)
M ship: Terran
L and XL ship: Terran

Turrets depend on ship really

[Pandorian]

"Best" equipment hasn't changed since 4.0

5.0 didn't add new equipment
6.0 Boron equipment is exclusive to Boron ships so it doesn't matter when doing comparisons of equipment only

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2826705145&searchtext=weapon

[Humble]

Only problem is that it's too much to supply your shipyard with terran and commonwealth mix, I worried it's would be lag when one build shipyard with headquarter with everything product good that shipyard need, I supposed you could mega product somewhere to supply shipyard, but I don't like lot of transport here to there meanwhile lot of xenon attacking left and right is why I prefer mega as long as no lag.

It's depend on your world map, if xenon is winning, you better off use mega shipyard, if xenon isn't winning, I guess you could set up factory here and there without need mega shipyard as your transport is much safer.
I think Engine Terran is best for XL/L, while SPL for S and M Combat ships but again I do use combat engine for my miner as well to flee better.

Shields, Terran, if not due you are not role playing Terran then I guess it's argon or tel.

M Turret I guess Terran Bolts for friendly fire, if you don't care about friendly fire, it's m argon flak.

L Turret, I guess Plasma PAR or Arg Par if you fighting L/XL ship.

If S/M, then Terran L pulse or bolt if few L Turret, if many L Turret then Terran Beam, but it's might not go well in OOS but great IS, Bolt is balanced, if not, I'm not sure what is best commonwealth gun, most would use plasma for L.

[Daddy Shark]

Terrans have the best everything except anti-capital turrets. They have no plasma equivalent. The boron seem to be the race for "advanced" players. They have an odd playstyle with the whole snare/shield strip/missile bombard thing. You have to push the game to get the most out of them.