Check out the
Titan is best / Eagle is best / Sabre is best threads.
But to sum up;
Titan has most armour, bots, bats, and firepower, but steers like a combine harvester.
Sabre has a touch less armour, bots bats etc, but the turret fires forward
Eagle can fly rings around them both, but has less armour, firepower etc.

A good test of this is to get the VHF's, and see how long you can keep a Xeno on screen for.

Personally i prefer the drake. Only takes 2 x lvl 5, 2 x lvl 6 guns, lvl 6 shield, but it can fly rings around most other ships.

The pros and cons are there. It all comes down to your flying style, and who you are fighting.

Just my $0.02, but it could just be the cardamine talking.
Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre
aka Shaman - gameArena Server

I like the Dromedary and the Dagger. The two coolest looking ships in the game. I'm going to use the borderworld upgrade mod once my level gets high so I never have to give up my frieghter ways.

And yeah, the whole ships/level system is pretty screwey.

i prefer the banshee some for manuevrability

i ate a booger so you ate a turd.

Here we go again. *sigh*

i wish airplanes would be more upgradable in game. i'd like to build my kusari dragon's stats up. high class weapons only fit on certain airplanes... i also would like to fit my airplane with better shields. this game's missing alot. i want an official expansion from the developers packed with stuff that could make the game alot more fun in freelancing.

*ships

lolz funnay!!!

There's an edit button, you know

Maybe someone needs to send out a general notice about the difference between airplanes and spaceships. Apparently some people haven't figured it out on their own.

Oooo, pretty....what do we blow up first?

airplane: a winged(or lifting body) craft, designed for and capable of atmospheric travel, can be pressurized and airtight, but NOT capable of exiting that atmosphere, or of re-entry into it. Usually propelled by propeller, rocket, or jet based engines.

spaceship: designed for and capable of travel outside a planet's atmosphere. It IS possible to have an un-pressurized spaceship. May or may not be capable of re-entry, may or may not be capable of reaching escape velocity. Uses chemical(either solid or liquid fuel) or nuclear rocket engines and/or a series of reaction control thrusters driven by compressed gasses.

The ships in FL are spaceships, not airplanes, because they ARE capable of space travel.

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Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless
-->In 60 years, I wanna be one of those cranky guys sitting on his porch with a shotgun, yelling at the fools to get off my lawn...

Edited by - NukeIt on 04-08-2003 21:09:39

Edited by - NukeIt on 04-08-2003 21:10:37

I *think* it was probably a design decision based on the story line. You start in New York so things were kept 'low level' there and as you moved to new areas they became progressively tougher with a corresponding increase in ship capabilities. You see this increase across the board (so to speak), in weapons tech, economy, mission rewards, etc. Apparently the game's designers didn't consider how this would affect MP mode.

To be honest, I don't think they gave a whole lot of thought to MP, there are a number of things they certainly didn't seem to consider outside of the story plot.

Padriag

NukeIt: I call my dromedary a tub. Can I get a definition please?

And God said,
E=mC²
And there was light.

I stayed in a dromedary when I was a uni student ...




Jose Chavez: "Trent! It's good to see my kind of scum."

It's only been another two day's since the last of these posts got locked.
I vote for three day's until the next one comes up.

To all the n00bs I've flamed before...
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The Titan Flies Like A Cow