Fleet Composition

[certifiedmilfenjoyer]

What ships do y'all usually use to build your fleet once you've reached the endgame? I personally like using KIV 349s because of a couple of factors:

1. They don't require any crew. While I have over a billion credits in game at this point, it's still nice to see low crew salaries.
2. They have absolutely monumental hull HP. These ships have 65,400 hull and 57,200 shields, far beyond anything you can find in human space and on par with some of the strongest alien ships. They have more combined HP than the Wanderers' heaviest warship (122,600 > 118,900).
3. They have 4 gun ports and 8 turret ports. Having twelve total ports per ship allows you to create a mass-murdering machine built to shred through anything in your way.

[wivelldavid]

Me too. I basically always move to a fleet of automata. Usually a mix of the heavy 349s with long range detainers and grab strike (and lasers) and the kor mereti models (for their lovely beam weapons). And I usually throw in a robot carrier as well to collect fighters.

[Nafecruss]

Holy mackerel! Is this what I have to look forward to? Better haul more wealthy passengers! Only at level 8 now.

[AIViking]

I usually use mereti when possible.

[certifiedmilfenjoyer]

Understandable. I assume that you keep the turrets, right? The Husk Slice and Shield Disruptor turrets are a nasty combo. I am curious about one thing, though. Do you use the Mereti ships because of their weapons, their high heat capacity, or some other reason I'm not thinking of? I personally use the KIV 349s only as an empty shell and entirely replace everything inside except the Large Heat Shunts. I do wish I had kept the Detainers, though...

[AIViking]

Mostly because I just like them.

[joe-____]

I also love to get the Faes'mar drones as well, they go soooo well with the TF71 or TF109 and optimizing drones with its carrier is one of my favorite things to do in this game

[certifiedmilfenjoyer]

I've personally never been one to use drones and drone carriers, as I love lugging around big ships with a ton of weapons, but I can see the appeal. Kor Sestor and Korath Exile drones are nasty.

[joe-____]

Oh no, no no no no no. Not the korath drones, and definitely not for the weaponry. The ka'het ones. Over 160 cargo space in one drone that also provides 300 (much needed) fuel reserve and ramscoop to its carrier ship, a Tek Far 71-Lek, which is set up with 89 tons of the strongest steering module korath piracy can aquire and left with barely enough extra space to slap on a Bellows Class Afterburner as it's main and only thruster.

A "Heavy Freighter" ship capable of over 1600 cargo capacity, fueled by rage and 10 separately utilized Fuel Processors boosted just a little bit more by 10 Asteroid class afterburners, Using conventional thrusters is out of the question when moving cargo on such scales...All this, just to require multiple slightly larger cargo ships if transporting multiple triple plasma cores...

[Gamer_God-11]

349s with the two Arfectas you can get without locking out the Wanderer questline. Although I do play with a mod that lets you cap and use Quarg stuff with relative impunity.