There are a number of ways to get good ships.
1. Work your way through the game and earn them, but L10 does take a while. Nevertheless, this is part of the incentive for advancement.
2. Down load the star wars ship pack, various (cool!) ships allow six L10 weapons.
3. Other mods have ships in them also.

I love the game, but I don't like having a lousy ship. Be sure to play through most of the game and try various ships before grabbing a powerful one. Once the story levels are done, grab the best of everything and kick some but. But there is a caution here also, you can make your ship too powerful and take the fun out of dog fighting. Then you wont want to play.
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Officially speaking only three ships allow for level 10 weaponry

a) Titan (Corsair Very Heavy Fighter) My favorite and personal ship
b) Eagle (Zoners Very Heavy Fighter) nice and manouvrable
c)Sabre (Border Worlds Very Heavy Fighter) this b**** can be a pain to take out

They all have level 10 maximum weapon and shield...

He who has a king in a land of eyes, is blind

my advice woudl be to save about $5,000,000 before you even think of buying a level 10 ship, as fitting it out costs a bomb!!

and dont fit a level 10 shield it does take the fun out of dogfighting as no bugger can hurt you!!

an example with me level 10 shield - 10 bretonia police ships firing on me, and my shield slowly trickles down to zero, but takes bloody ages!! try fitting a level 7 or lower shield for more realistic battles

10 Bretonia Ships and the Shieeld STILL fails?

Damn....i got one, went out to Kusari, got attacked by Blood Dragons like hell...The Shield didn't budge unless when i got hit by a missile...When that happened, it would only lose a square of energy just to be fully charged 2 seconds later...It's really screwed up to be immortal...




He who has a king in a land of eyes, is blind

That's a load of bullcrap. I didn't even have a million when I bought the Eagle; the thing is, you don't really need to stockpile money beyond what you need for repairs and ammo. I've only just broken 2mill, still in the Eagle.

As far as level 10 weapons go, it looks to me that Class 9 weapons are better. Yes that's right. The ones I've seen are comparable to Class 10s but with slightly less energy drain. I put it down to Class 10s being prototypes and energy-hungry. Also note that Class 9s are worth more down the shop than Class 10s. I was going to swap all my Class 10s out for 9s, but then I found some nice Nomad Blasters and Cannons. Mmmmmm.

Edit: Another load of bullcrap. I've got a level 10 shield (THE level 10 shield? The Adv. Brigandine is the only one I've seen) and it's gone in the blink of an eye if you're fighting Nomads or a swarm of level 19 pilots if you're not careful. Besides, I take great pleasure in being able to pretend to be a gun platform when fighting Rogues

Edited by - Doctor Boson on 10-06-2003 14:51:09

The Level 10 shield that I've seen was given to me by someone in MP. It is called either the Champion or advanced Champion.

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@Smeghead - If you are playing unmodded FL you should get rid of that shield. The only c10 you can legally get in unmodded is the (Adv?) Brigande. If you get spotted with a champion you will get accused of cheating.

'...so you're a non event mass with a quantum probablilty of zero. Clear?'

What is all this stuff about millions of creds to get a good ship ??

At the end of the SP Campaign. I'm flying a Sabre with a level 10 shield and all hardpoints except the turret have level 10 weapons I've pinched off wrecks around the place.

At no point in the game have I ever had more than $300,000 at any one time.

How can you mount all class 10 weps when the Sabre only mounts 4 class 10 weps and 2 class 9 weps, plus class 9 turret. Also in SP the highest shield you can buy is class 9.
Yeah, you don't need a lot of money saved, just fight VHF and tractor in their weps. You'll have kick ass weps in no time.

Edit: Oops, sorry, shield is indeed class 10 positron - Adv Brigande. I was confused with the Class 10 MP or mod only Champion Graviton.

Edited by - mik on 11-06-2003 18:24:40

I actually unmounted my Class 10 weapons and switched in class 8 and 9. I like the refire rates a lot better, 4.00 and 5.88 compared to 2.00 for class 10. Plus way less energy drain. Still using a class 9 shield BTW. Those LV19 guys can wear ya down if you slack on you tactics.(Woke me up that's for sure) I was used to never getting hurt.