Your Favorite Ship Size

Atrocities · #1 March 31st, 2003, 07:42 AM

Just a poll to determine what ship hull size you like the most. If you want, post about why you picked the hull size you did.

Captain Kwok · #2 March 31st, 2003, 07:57 AM

I voted for battlecruiser, although it's probably not the most effective ship in the standard game.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 March 31st, 2003, 10:44 AM

light criuser. for roleplay purposes, i like the idea of zipping around.

[ March 31, 2003, 08:45: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Fyron · #4 March 31st, 2003, 11:34 AM

Battleships are the most effective overall.

Haven't we already had several polls like this? I know I made one.

Ragnarok · #5 March 31st, 2003, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

Haven't we already had several polls like this? I know I made one.

Yeah, I remember one or two others.

But I voted for battleship. Just because they got a nice size for a good mix of weapons and so forth. In the early game I like LCs the best though. Still only need 1 life support and CQ, and they can have the large mount.

Master Belisarius · #6 March 31st, 2003, 03:53 PM

Although I think the LC is the best hull for the same reasons that Ragnarok wrote, I voted for the DN.
Why?
Because think the more easy way to defeat a good DN fleet, is using another DN fleet....

Guille · #7 March 31st, 2003, 05:15 PM

I like most the H U G E ships. Imagine that you see a planet and... Wait, it's moving, it's a ship, not a planet!
I voted for "other", for my precious "Death Star" (44000 kt), a H U G E ship I made for creating Ringworlds or Sphereworls using only one ship and save the maintenance cost of smaller ships or stations until I have them all.
I know a real Death Star has 999999 times the size of the mine, but I actually cannot afford to construct and mantain one of those 120-160 km diameter space stations.

Slick · #8 March 31st, 2003, 05:23 PM

I picked BC because it is large enough to hold all the goodies later in the game with room for a decent weapons package and because larger sizes start slowing down due to less engines.

BTW, aside from maybe a turn 2-5 explorer, does anyone use escorts for anything? I haven't built one in probably a year - for anything. I wish they were more attractive for use in mid game.

Slick.

Dawn Falcon · #9 March 31st, 2003, 09:50 PM

If I have x turns, the biggest ship I can build in x turns using a planetary SY. x is usually 2 or 3 in peacetime..

Raging Deadstar · #10 March 31st, 2003, 09:59 PM

I play mostly in high tech games and The lowest ship hull i use is probably light cruiser, for stellar manipulations and scout ships, i have used destroyers once though but that was before i added minesweepers on the scout

I picked battleship in the poll, gives you that lovely new mount but doesn't sacrifice that much speed, just lovely *sips cup of tea and acts all english*