New player looking for guidance

[Tenacity]

1.Although it may seem trivial, because of our WoW heritage we always like to aspire to become the most powerful;essintially, what are some of the best ships around in the different classes, and what is a bomber?

A very bad first question to ask around here, trying to get the biggest, baddest ship is the callingcard of every bad player on this server.

You will find, however, that most vessels are pretty well balanced against most others. There's no real ship that stands out in any particular ship class. I would suggest you pick a faction whose RP you think fits you, and use the ships and equipment available to that faction. Cross-faction ships are not permitted in 90% of cases here.

To the second part of your quote: Bombers are slightly larger than fighters (or in the case of the barghest, MUCh larger than fighters), are slower/less manuverable, but have heavy armor and the weaponry needed to combat large capital ships such as cruisers and battleships. Still, no bomber is effective alone, to take out the largest ships you need a small swarm of bombers that know what they're doing. Bombers are generally considered the most effective pirating vessels, because they can take out transports more quickly than fighters - you just have to be careful of the lawfuls flying fighters, as they'll wreck you pretty fast.

2.Considering we will ALWAYS be playing together, and hopefully with friends we make playing this game, what are some factions or what I have gathered reading (clans) or whatever the smaller more defined groups are called. Which of these groups will fit our illegal,robbing, fighting style of play.

I would honestly say "stay out of liberty" - there are too many players there already, and it's the hub of all bad RP on the server.

You would be more well suited to finding a faction in Rheinland, Bretonia, or Kusari - my vote goes to bretonia/rheinland, as most trade passes through those houses (making pirating more efficient there) - kusari is mostly dead as far as trading is concerned, but there's still plenty of lawful vs unlawful action in that area.

For Rheinland pirate groups, you're best off going with the Red Hessians, as they have their own bomber and fighter available (unioners and bundschuh only have fighters for themselves, though you can always use civilian ships).

For Bretonia, I would suggest the Mollys, as they too have their own fighters and bombers.

For Kusari, you can either be a semi-lawful hogosha or farmer's alliance team, or you can go to the unlawful blood dragons or golden chrysanthemums. Nice thing about hogosha/FA is that the lawfuls wont generally stop you from pirating people, so long as the target you're pirating is a foreigner.

3.Although it will be hard being attacked at the early stages, what is the best way for me to acquire one of the ships you hopefully listed above, and how fast can me and my friend do so?

Your best option when starting out is to either become a miner or trader. Save the smuggling, piracy, and combat for later on when you've acquired and fully outfitted the proper ship.

Mining is generally easier, and in some cases more profitable, than most trade routes - trading also has the downside of piracy risk, as other pirates will be looking to take your money. Missions are not a good source of money in this game, but you will have to do some in order to build up reputation with the faction you want to join.

My suggestion for starting out is to mine silver from the asteroid fields in the colorado system, and sell it back on manhattan in the new york system, makes a decent profit and after a few runs you'll have enough money to buy a small freighter for trading (or further mining).

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