[TC] Best personal ship?

[mrbadger]

I love the SpringyB. It is my first game in the X3 universe so I wanted it to be a little easy. IT IS STILL NOT EASY <laugh>

Maybe if restart at some point I might want a handy cap but for a first game the SpringBlossom kicks ass.

Who in there right mind wants to crawl across the universe in some slow POS when you can have a fast ship that ROCKS!

I've found that there is so much to do that a fast ship just isn't required. I spend a lot of time in a TM that has an M3 fighter and an M5 scout (for sector mapping), with an M6 following in case I need the big guns.

I'm super rich in game now, I've got a large fleet, all but the Aldrin plot completed, and I still like to pootle about in ty trusty TM.

[BDStyle]

My fave personal ship has and will always be the X2 Mercury. Long story....

These days however I'm not really that attached to small ships primarily because the love I have for mass dogfighting with guns has died.
I miss dogfighting in a scorpion X3:R rocked for that in the pirate sectors.


As fighters go I kicked most ass in a scimitar... the trigger is one long beam of death that basically never stops firing. Khaak corvettes, any M6, TL's, M7's, the odd M1 and some M2's will die to it, just a matter of time.
I wouldn't say I love it though.


Anyway back to X3:TC.... Fave personal ship is probably the Skiron from the early part of my game. My stats say Hyperion but that's what I've been building complexes in.

[insolent1]

Pirate kestrel if only it could mount EBC/PBG, been using this to rob freighters and had to face a swarm of drones but the drones act weird when your in this ship(the TS dropped 10 and they didn't even hit me once and eventually ran out of energy).
The hyperion vanguard is the best personal ship as it has docking bays, loads of cargo space, good turret coverage, decent weapon choice, shields, decent speed and can dock everywhere(well except super shipyards and hammer torp fabs). Only downsides are its size and it makes the game to easy.

[Camel_Racer_]

Yeah, I was thinking springblossom also. Anyone got any suggestions to bump my Terran rep? Any good facs I can dump in Terran sectors that you guys can suggest?

[delray]

The easiest way to get to Hero of Sol is to go to Terran space in Kestrel and do only "return abandoned ship", "deliver ship", "quick taxi" missions until you get there. It takes around 20 missions to do that.

[BDStyle]

However since the rep you want will be used to buy a springblossom I heard the best way to earn rep is to repeatedly crash into asteroids looking for hidden spacefly eggs.

The proceeding paragraph may not be wholly accurate.

[delray]

Hahah.

Why Springblossom isn't in Heavy Hydra or Heavy Dragon price range is beyond me...

[Camel_Racer_]

LOL

OK, THANKS *explodes*

Yeah the money aint really a problem, its more that I did a couple of missions in terran space which involved me shooting down 2 terran ships & I didnt realise till later that my rep had dropped to below civilian

[Susie's Brother]

terran Katana M6

best shields
fast
nice look (every other race look trough the window to see it)
you could do most mission on it
deadly with matter/antimatter cannons

[XanII]

Springblossom. You will hate/love it the same way as you did Hyperion in X3:R. Theese ships should never have reached the players hands.

[Nekron]

In TC Angel or Chokaro depending on your preference to either transport people or return abandoned ships. If it's Reunion... buy TC.

Haha!

I'll second you on the Angel.

[cswiger]

In R, I went for a Fast Pirate Buster (@199 with crazy laser regen) first, and later capped the M4 Yaki Raijin Raider or whatever with 50MJ of shielding (@226 speed, but weak lasers). The Pirate Buster could kill a TL or M6 with it's recharge being faster than the shields, but the Yaki Raijin was unable to take on either-- their shields went up faster than my gun energy.

Spent a bit of time in the Split M3 Mamba Raider, liked it's speed, hated the MD-only turret as I didn't have enough cargo to carry other stuff and MD ammo. Liked the PNR with 75MJ of shielding a bit better, but it was vulnerable to missile spamming.

Eventually capped the Xenon LX, and stuck with that afterwards for the most part. I was willing to fly a M6 Dragon due to aPPC and great speed, or the Hyperion or an M2 Panther or Titan for more specialized purposes, but more often those ships were doing OOS sector patrol and the LX was the ship I flew.

In X3:TC, things were much simpler: either a M5 Kestrel for speed, taxi missions, and exploring, the M6 Springblossom for general purposes, or a M7 Tiger/Panther or heavier for when heavy firepower is desired.

[ecniv]

Of the ships I have flown:

Hyperion
(sheilds and pbg, speed)

Ray
Although ponderously slow and dockable only at certain stations, using you jump drive carefully you can erase other races ships. Flak up n down, ibls ok front and one side with cigs on the other. On the back I have phased repeaters. Only the really speedy ships pose problems (turret tracking) but overall, weirdly satisfying

[DarkCorp]

I'm flying a Hyperion Vanguard (M6) most of time, i have my advanced kestrel docked to it and an advanced perseus... It's my swiss knife... I can go very fast for taxi mission... I can fight anything to M7 easily, I can drop marine onto big ship and my perseus with PBE make fighter bailing... In my 3333 cargo hold, I have a lot of Mk2 drones I have some Typhoon and some wasp and still enought for E-cells...

When I must fight numerous foes, i call for myself my dear M7 Shrike "Mechanical Animal" (and the 8 falcons haulers she carry)... and my little wings : 2x3 Hyperions (Silver Scythe 1,2 & 3 and Golden Scythe 1,2 & 3). With them, I can kill everything, everywhere, when I want...

[tokyofist]

For me it was -

M3 - Nova Raider Vanguard
M6 - Skiron
M7 - Panther

The only thing with the Panther is that I've got very lazy when it comes to shooting at things... the Panthers turrets do all the hard work for me.

[mad_axeman]

Discoverer Hauler. Bought cheap. Been flying it for 4 game days now.

[ctdking]

No question for me - it's the Deimos.

Ample cargo room for e-cells, 6 gj shielding for dogfighting/ramming, 6 docking bays for M3s, 6 docking bays which I have a kestrel and 5 blastclaw prototypes in (plasma burst generators are uber, and lots of cargo room). Great turret coverage too.

But mainly PSGs ftw.

Not too great against capital ships, but when I have to take those on I jump in a boreas or oddy to take those down.

Only downside is that it can't dock everywhere (I use my blastclaw prototype/kestrel to dock) and it's expensive.[/b]

[g.koster]

First of all

What are you into what are your missions

for station building missions split elefant or pirat mobile station(cap)(fastes, TL)

for station building argon mamoth or terran mobilemining base ship or terran amisveric lifter(cap) (biggest)

for VIP persengers:Iguana Vanguard (find) (fastest TP)
for orther persengers Springblossom (large fast jumping)

for following: Kestrel advanced teladi or pirat (cap) (fastest)

for deliveries: Springblossom (large fast jumping)

for killing: (vidar, springblossum, Hyperion Vanguard )

for station defence: m6 :vidar, springblossum, Hyperion Vanguard
TM: no experence
M7: tiger.

for patrols: m6 :vidar, springblossum, Hyperion Vanguard
TM: no experence
M7: panter ,tiger
M2: no experence
M1: no experence

for getting ship: split boa + Kestrel , Hyperion Vanguard(CAP)
+ kestrel (FAst, jumpdrive)

for recovering ship: split boa + Kestrel, Hyperion Vanguard(CAP)
+ kestrel (FAst, jumpdrive)

Did I forget a mission type

commend
for fitigh missions it depend on your stile I like the vidar because of it shielding, turning speed and guns

and that is only a list for TC

[Nanook]

So what do people think the best personal ship is (the ship that you always fly around in).
M6? M7?

Contradiction of terms. I never fly around in 'The Best' ship because it's just too boring. 'Real Pilots' can beat the AI in the 'Worst Ship'.

[delray]

How about Pirate Nova then, a fighter 97 speed?