I'm trying to get my old man to play FL with me again on his free time. It won't be easy anyway since he quit many years ago after most of his stuff was wiped.
To make this thread useful to people in the future, I would like to make a general inquiry on capital ships.
What capital ships would you recommend for a beginner or casual player that wants to chill in a ship without the tension of fast-paced action?
Value-added requirements:
A capital ship with above average effectiveness within its class.
A capital ship more focused on absorbing damage and surviving than dealing damage (no squishy caps or "damage dealer" caps).
A capital ship belonging to an ID with a decent ZoI.
A capital ship playable without a heavy technerf by more than one ID (e.g. Zoner capital ships).
Thanks in advance!
"It is a cold universe until you know God as your Father, and then it becomes a home. Even the next life simply becomes the Father's house, home."
—David Pawson
I'd say a Zoner mission Nephy for fun in Delta, honestly. We've had hours of fun just right clicking all things what we saw, and our expensive cap armor let us weather the storm.
I'd recommend those ships; Valor, Legate, Ranseur.
These ships would give you a decent ZOI, are easy to fly and offer different activities. With their large ZOI come many enemies though, so be aware of where you're travelling.
Come to think of it, I'm not actually sure what's good for battleship missioning in Gallia currently. Enclave especially.
I guess +1 for a Nephilim for chilling while right clicking and buffer hulltanking the hell out of basically any NPC the game can throw at you. Even a cap6 one is over 10 million EHP.
Tanky, easy to manouver unlike the zoner blob
And great missions, often with allies. And you can choose between easy and hard ones (crayter spawns carriers and dreads on relatively low level missions, BGH has cruisers even on high level ones)
With a PoB that buys your spoils at nice bonus prices so you get extra money unlike in delta.
Add to that a massive ZoI people keep whining about nonstop that lets you go on trips and you have an easy pick. This is my Go-to ship for farming cruiser missions and I have 5 heavy battle ships now including the neph.
For your last point and if you want missions and easy frequent PvP , arbiter's your choice, you might have 3 techs to choose from (legion, Civ AND liberty as the ID it getting merged with separatists) and has decent mission systems. Although in PvP it's flak and secondaries are very hard to use because of it's ridiculous lenght + placements
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