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Originally posted by spl_cadet:
**Of the human ships, the Confed Cruiser is the best. Why? Because it has the most firepower. And firepower=survival in the real world. Let's see how well a destroyer fares against a battleship. Not too well. Why? Because even though the battleship is slower it can still blow the destroyer sky high.

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Of course, the problem with the Confed Cruiser is that it is a slow ship. Let's look at one situation: a fleet of Rebel Cruisers attacking your ship. This can happen more often then you think. If your ship is a Confed Cruiser, it gets smashed into oblivion VERY fast. If your ship is a Corvette (albeit one that is souped up), you can run away. Sure, the 'vette doesn't have the FIREPOWER of a Confed Cruiser, but, it sure as hell perserved the life of the crew.

I'm not trying to say that the Corvette is the best ship, but merely pointing out that firepower isn't everything.

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Originally posted by Starkiller:
**Of course, the problem with the Confed Cruiser is that it is a slow ship. Let's look at one situation: a fleet of Rebel Cruisers attacking your ship. This can happen more often then you think. If your ship is a Confed Cruiser, it gets smashed into oblivion VERY fast. If your ship is a Corvette (albeit one that is souped up), you can run away. Sure, the 'vette doesn't have the FIREPOWER of a Confed Cruiser, but, it sure as hell perserved the life of the crew.

I'm not trying to say that the Corvette is the best ship, but merely pointing out that firepower isn't everything.

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But the CFC is a defensive ship, and used to hold a strategic position. The rebels have to destroy it, It doens't have to destroy the rebels. Also, what would happen if 2 confed cruisers attacked a position being held by a Rebel cruiser. Then what would speed give it?

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Here's my Top Ten:

1. Confederation Cruiser-The real problem is the turn rate. However, nothing can match this ship for Firepower and-except for the Alien Cruiser-protection. I don't care how slow it is, that many weapons ends the story.
2. Rebellion Cruiser-Less firepower then the Fed version, but faster. Also a very good ship.
3. Rebel Destroyer-Great Maneuverability for a large ship, and it outguns the Frigate as well.
4. Confederation Frigate-Not as good as the Rebel Destroyer most of the time , but it all evens out considering the Fed Cruiser beats the Rebel Cruiser most of the time.
5. Corvette-IMO the best non-goverment ship, it a bargain for only 2 mil, you can disable a Kestrel rather easily if you play it right with this craft.
6. Alien Cruiser-Excellent protection, but only one gun. Albeit a good gun.
7. Courier-This might be newbie stupidity, but I luv Couriers. Not bad firepower, great speed and agility, good cargo space. A small ship, but good all around.
8. Kestrel-This ship is great but it is waaaaaaaaaaayyyy overpriced.
9. Manta-A cool fighter.
10. Gunboat-The Fed Counterpart.

And the rest, with the exceptions of the Hawk, Shuttle, and Argosy, I know nothing about.

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Originally posted by General Rak:
**But the CFC is a defensive ship, and used to hold a strategic position. The rebels have to destroy it, It doens't have to destroy the rebels. Also, what would happen if 2 confed cruisers attacked a position being held by a Rebel cruiser. Then what would speed give it?

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I wasn't saying that it was a bad ship, merely pointing out that firepower isn't everything. I say that if you can flee, it's better than going down with your guns blazing.

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GOVERNMENT TOP FIVE:

Rebel Cruiser
Confed Cruiser
Confed Frigate
Rebel Destroyer
Confed Patrol Ship

CIVILIAN TOP FIVE:
Corvette
Kestrel
Argosy
Lightning
Rapier

Note that the pilot, of course, has an enormous impact on the performance of his ship.

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1)Confed Cruiser- In my opinion, the best ship in the game. Great firepower and shields, speed and turn are its only liabilities.
2)Rebel Cruiser- A very good ship. Good manuverability and speed, however, I think that its shields are too weak and its lacks the space to be on par with the Confed Cruiser.
3)Rebel Destroyer- A good ship. However, it just doesn't compare to the cruisers.
4)Confed Frigate- Also a decent ship, albiet a bit too slow.
5)Kestrel- An excellent ship, but way overpriced.
6)Corvette- A bargain for the price, but too weack for may tastes.
7)Rapier- The best fighter in the game, but a bit costly.
8)Lightning- A great fighter. A bit weak, though.
9)Alien Cruiser- Only one gun and very slow. However, seekers, superior shields, and 3 alien fighters are a plus. On the other hand, with proper upgrades, ANY ship in the game can take it out.
10)Alien Fighter- Great shields and speed. However, it only has a few seekers and a light fusion beam and any ship with a tractor beam can destroy it in time.

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Best ship in the game (lets pay close attention here) is indeed the alien cruiser. It holds 12 or 15 guns I believe... but that's not the plus.. when you have several ALIEN FIGHTERS at your disposal, you could make short work of a single alien fighter yourself... no matter what.. 1500 shield can keep you on your feet long enough for a handful of alien fighters to do the work... if, as everyone believes, is the best ship around... although in the game they don't do enough damage fast enough, the idea that the cruiser has these fighters makes it theoretically the best ship...

eep.

The best ship is the reb destroyer. Make a plugin with a few generic missions:
1:destroy 5 confed cruisers.
2:desrtoy 5 reb cruisers.
3:destroy 10 kestrels (like TAG.)
4 :Destroy 30 lightnings/corvettes.
Now try to beat them all with each of your ships. Install ai upgrade, and no monty python. For xtra dificulty miake it 10 reb/confed cruisers. I have made such a plugin and done this (remember the arena plug, i modified this because of the simple/no random galexy.) I found that i could beat it in all ships except the light/heavy freighters, the shuttle, the courier/clpper, and the scoutship (i doubt i could do it in the freighters/shuttle, because of their speed fragility and low armerment, the others because it would have taken to long/been to boaring.) I found that it was most dificult to beat the 5/10 cruiser missions in a confed cruiser. The reb cruiser was much better. But by far the best was the reb destroyer. I did it in the least ammount of time, with the most fun in this ship. I did it in an alien fighter, which, though it required almost no reel skill to do, was a long boaring process, took much longer than did the reb destroyer and the reb cruiser. Actually doing it in a rapier/lightning was also very fun, as was the vette. So my order is this based on the time it took to complete these missions, the fun i had in doing so, and the destructive potential.
1> Reb Destroyer.
2> Reb Cruiser.
3> Vette.
4> Kestral.
5> Alien Fighter.
6> Confed Cruiser.
7> Alien Cruiser.
8> Lightning.
8> Rapier. (for 8&9 they were both very fun to fly, but the missions did take quite a while)
10> Everyhing that i didnt bother ranking.
Now these results are somewhat subjective, but i can say that for a decent pilot the reb destroyer was without a doubt the best, and the alien fighter, while nearly indestructable was more like a gnat, it buzzed arround but didn't do much damage at all. If you disagree, run this test, You should appriciate the destroyer much more afterwards.
Joe

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