Community Vote - Most comfortable ship type

[Ramke]

I find gunboats and gunships to be the most all-round powerful class that you can really be effective against everyone and everything in. It has great firepower, it's size makes it very hard to hit and it's speedy. All of that along with turret zoom/steer it's nigh unstoppable in the right hands.

Fighters need to spend AGES to take down your shields, constantly shooting you. That really, really won't end well for them as gunboats usually fire fast, high-damage shells very rapidly.

Bombers need to take down your shields with EMPs before actually damaging with a SNAC (torps don't follow fast enough to be even considered). EMPs are ridiculously slow, against a fast, small capital that shoots rapidly in all directions. A gunboat can nuke a bomber in 3-4 volleys I think, and it takes a few seconds of following a gunboat closely to actually do enough damage to take out a shield from regen state. Can only fire one SNAC before their shields go up again, and can't fire one to nuke their shields because it'll regen before you can fire another.

Cruisers will have difficulty chasing (and hitting) gunboats, but are probably the only possible good counter aside from other gunboats.

Anything larger just won't be able to hit or give chase.

Basically, snubs are fudged if they try to get in actual reliable-hitting range, and capitals will struggle to hit it at all.