I feel like taking a poll...what it everyone's favorite ship and weapon?
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Crazy Galaxy, Why am I
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middle of all the Death,
Destruction, And Boom?
-Vice Admiral Jon
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Favorite ship? Favorite Weapon?
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I can't judge about the SAEs or the plasma siphon, since I haven't obtained them in the game yet. The Igazra I captured with lots of luck is probably the darn friggin' greatest ship I've ever flown, if only I could have either used or sold those SAE launchers... it's wonderfully maneuvrable, and it has awesome shields. One time, when I did the UE missions, I stuffed 5 neutron turrets on it... that rocked, but it took up lots of space, and I the total damage output was probably lower than with phase turrets.
I once did the Zidagar missions (long time ago, on my slow Performa...), and I didn't like the beamer much... the Zidaras are cool, but I made myself a plug-in to be able to sell the fighter bay.
It's probably a lot less useful with the bay installed.The UE cruiser is a tad too slow and inert, even with all the enhancements... but gosh, all that weapon space!
It was hard to give away my captured Igazra, but now that I have a UE cruiser with 5 phase turrets and eight defence systems, all that armor and 5 UE fighters... I definitely like it. 
Despite what everybody says, the CW is a cool ship. You have lots of weapon space once you sell off the fighter bay, it's very maneuvrable, and it just looks beautiful.
The price tag is indeed a bit too high, but credits aren't a problem in EVO anyway.The Lazira is also much better than one might think. Although its shields are frighteningly low, they recharge twice as fast as most other ships do, so you could beat capital ships with attrition... and it's darn fast too. One of my personal favorites, but not the last ship I'd buy.
The Voinian Frigate might also be nice to tour the Crescent, but it's much too slow for my taste. Besides, UE ships will fire at you in uninhabited systems. :frown:
Conclusion: In my limited experience, my favorites are
- Ship: Igazra, closely followed by UE Cruiser.
- Primary Weapon: Phase Turrets
- Secondary Weapon: Miranu Defence Pods-- Cinga
(This message has been edited by Cinga (edited 05-14-2000).)
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Arada! I love it.
As for weapons, I don't care much, since I am (or try to be) a peaceful trader. My Arada has 2 of the cannons it came with, 2 Emalghian cannons, and a pursuit missile launcher, but I rarely use them. I think the following outfits are more important:
fuel scoop
sensors & IFF decoder
afterburner
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lol a trader! well let me tell you something traderman,get yerself in a M.freighter. it might be a bit slow but it has good cargo space, and can be modified to defend itselfo better so you can make more deliveries to the more dangerous areas of Miranu space.
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**lol a trader! well let me tell you something traderman,get yerself in a M.freighter. it might be a bit slow but it has good cargo space, and can be modified to defend itselfo better so you can make more deliveries to the more dangerous areas of Miranu space.
**Jude is a woman, not a traderman.
And as for non-capital ships, the Lazira is undoubtedly the best bet. Capture yourself an escort of Voinian Supply Ships and you can make a million credits with every Himgro/Munb/Himgro run. I think we've had this topic before.
-- Cinga
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Ships: Igazra/Azdara
Weapons: Plasma Siphon/Phase TurretsComment: To GrayWolf - Igazra has the same amount of shields as a Voinian Cruiser has armour. Although in an AI vs. AI match the Cruiser would win because of it's fighters and that it's Neutron weapons work much better on shields than the Phase weapons do on armour.
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IMHO i think the best is the Iggy followed closely with a tie for 2nd by the (U) cruiser and (V) cruiser.
Best loadout:
Iggy
1 or 2 Phase beamers
4 phase turets
3 neutron turets
4 or 5 blaze turets
Multiple massed Dispy launchers and LOTS AND LOTS OF DISPIES ALL STOLEN FROM UNSUSPECTING RENEGADE VESSLES!!! (Hehehehe)
Some SADs, firing in salvos of 3 or 4.And if that doesnt all fit i just buy mass expansions and steal myself an escort (V) Supply ship or two to haul cargo on.
BTW here are my government abbreviations, including the minor ones. Feel free to copy this down
(U) = UE
(V) = Voinian
(M) = Miranu
(E) = Emalgha
(L) = Hinwar (from Liadon)
(H) = the Free Huroners
(F) = Freeport human renegades
= ST Renegades
(N) = NT Renegades
(P) = Zachit (their a lot like Police)
(I) = Igadzra
(Z) = Zidagar
(A) = Azdgari
(G) = Council (in Gadzair)
(S) = Strandless
(O) = Other (independent systems)Those arent sposed to be parentheses, their sposed to be circles, but its the closest i can get to circles with text.
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My favorite Ship is the Igadzra, it is incredible. My favorite misle is the SAE and favorite gun is the Phase Turret in large Numbers!
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Best loadout:
Iggy
1 or 2 Phase beamers
4 phase turets
3 neutron turets
4 or 5 blaze turets
Multiple massed Dispy launchers and LOTS AND LOTS OF DISPIES ALL STOLEN FROM UNSUSPECTING RENEGADE VESSLES!!! (Hehehehe)
Some SADs, firing in salvos of 3 or 4.And if that doesnt all fit i just buy mass expansions and steal myself an escort (V) Supply ship or two to haul cargo on.
**You can only fit 5 turrets OR cannons on an Iggie without cheating, no matter how much weapon space you have. And yeah, phased beamers should be real cool on an Iggie with maxed out fuel capacity... unfortunately, the tech is from different governments. You'd have to do the Ziggy missions and capture the Iggy.
-- Cinga
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**I feel like taking a poll...what it everyone's favorite ship and weapon?
**Ship - New Jersey
Weapon - Colt Government ModelYou didn't say EVO ships and weapons
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In reply to Cinga's thing about only 5 turets on an Iggy, thats not true since when you buy it it has 5 blaze AND 5 phase turets. But aparently its not as customizable in that respect.
Unless of course I give it a complete overhaul, give it a special ship entry, and the works.
BTW i forgot a couple govts.
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Originally posted by Mad Bomber:
**In reply to Cinga's thing about only 5 turets on an Iggy, thats not true since when you buy it it has 5 blaze AND 5 phase turets. But aparently its not as customizable in that respect.Unless of course I give it a complete overhaul, give it a special ship entry, and the works.
**What the heck???
We seem to be talking about different games. An Iggy comes with 5 phase turrets and 3 SAE launchers with ammo, nothing else. Blaze turrets are UE technology anyway, so why should the Iggies use it?
-- Cinga
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Fav ship: Arada
Fav weapon: SAD and SAEDon't know where to find SAE but I know its out there somewhere. I found it once before and i'll find it again.
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Best Ship: Igadzra
Best Weapon: Phase and Neutron Turret CombinationI don't usually like secondary weapons. The plasma siphon always accidentally hits another target and makes them hostile. Many of them require you to refill ammo at outfit shops which is a waste of time to me. Those like Phase beams and tractor beams drain fuel.
The Iggie has got very nice shields. Top that off with a few upgrades and it's also reasonably fast. Then give it a couple neutron turrents against large slow ships and phase against small fast ones and it's nearly indestructible.
By the way, if you capture a special ship that has more upgrades, do you get to use those upgrades, or do you just get to keep what is usually starts with?
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In response to Bannana64: When you capture a special ship it reverts to a regular ship, no greatly enhance shields or special weapons.
Same goes for if you capture one for an escort. I.E., if you capture the Disco Bison as an escort it turns into a regular Emalgha Freighter.
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of old towns without meeting with an instrument of time.Time is visible in all places.
Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
In this world, a second is a second is a second.
Time moves forward with unwavering regularity.
Time is an infinite ruler.
Time is absolute.