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saladinbob
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Are they all made equal and purely cosmetic or are some better than others?
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saladinbob
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look here for more info: sto.gamepedia.com/Carrier_Pets
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You can use BoP hangar pets if you are flying a variant of the Vo'Quv.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
Available from Starbases with the Tier 5 Comm Array unlocked for 45,000 Refined dilithium icon.png and 100,000 Fleet Credits. A Carrier or Escort Carrier is needed for purchase.
Specifically, what's a Comm Array?
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part of the fleet starbase upgrades. comm array is the science path, well part of it. got to unlock the highest level to get elite carrier pets. except swarmers those need the spire upgraded.
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The important thing to look for in pets is whether they have single-target or multiple-target abilities, and also what type of torpedos they have and whether they use cannons or beams. You need to ask yourself if you want hull or shield stripping hangar pets, or ones to shoot through shields, or ones that will just do continuous damage without dying too often.
The following list is based solely on my own empirical observation and what I know so far. I have not included any Klingon or Romulan faction hangar pets:
If you are in a fleet with a Tier 3 Spire they are relatively easy to get unlike having to buy an entire ship or several.
The best combination for pet fighters are beam arrays and transphasic torpedos as well as Beam Overload and Torpedo Yield. Any other combination with Torpedo Spread and Fire at Will is fine but do note that multiple-target abilities will cause hangar pets to aggro and this results in them dying more often than other pets. Personally I like single-target abilities.
The worse combination for fighters or even frigates are cannons. Not only do they need to bring them into the arc (they are not so smart in doing so) but pet cannons lack any significant amount of punch so once their torpedos are on cooldown they just can't cause a lot of hurt. Personally avoid cannon wielding pets like the plague. For this reason I am not big fan of the Romulan fighters.
As for the top frigates, I would personally say the very two best frigates are the Jemhadar Attack Ships and the Iconian Baltim Raiders. You can never go wrong with those. Another strong contender are definitely the Mobulai Frigates. Another good frigate is the Tholian Mesh Weaver but that's because it has beams and non-plasma torpedos. It doesn't have cannons and that's good enough for me. Let's not also forget the Krenim Heavy Raiders and the Romulan Drone Ship.
As for heavy fighters, I cannot say much. I usually avoid them because of their longer spawn time. If I had to pick one I would say the Xindi-Primate Nusuti Heavy Fighters (over the Delta Flyers).
Fire at Will.
I can tell you haven't tried the fleet Epochs before. My Elite Epochs are quite good.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Are their entropy builders usable by the parent craft?
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I hear no, but that's likely a bug which will soon be fixed. Mine are working decently without that mechanic however.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
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no, Frigate only work on one ship line. so breen only with breen. jem'hadar only with jem'hadar. and so on
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The best are in my opinion in no particular order for fighters/shuttles Elite Orion Slavers, Yellowstones, Elite Orion Interceptors, Elite Scorpions, Swarm Drones, Orion Tachyon Drones. I can really speak to all the cross faction fighters, except the Epoc, which seem okay, if nothing to write home about (haven't tried Elite Epocs, for the FAW, but I will eventually, they're basically like tiny Temporal cruisers with a FAW build.) Down side to the Epocs is I don't think their Channeled Deconstruction works right and they can only be equipted on the Chronos and Eternal. I believe the Feklri fighters are good too.
For frigates you have many good choices, BoPs, Fri'jai, if they'd permanantly fix the Callistos they would be great, till then no, , Romulan Drone Ships, Breen Frigates (I forget the name), Jem'hadar Attack ships, Kenim Raiders, ect...
Because Reasons. duh.
More seriously, assume the hangar bays are just not configured to hold, refuel, launch and land the other fighters and frigates. They're missing the liquid nitrogen feeds Breen need, the crystal snax the Tholian pilots eat to stay sharp, and the dark energy puffins that Iconian ships consume to power their engines.
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I like this explaination, so Epoc Fighters need a special chroniton infusion from key temporal ship systems that only the Chronos and Eternal are built to provide, something the Hangar that holds and repairs the Epocs can't provide by its self.
The Orion Hangars on the other hand are self sufficient, as long as you familiar with the right Orion technology, that hangars can handle all the needs of this small vessels by themselves.
The same is true of To'dujs, Nausicaan Power Siphons & Stingers, Federation 8/10 shuttles, Yellowstone Runabouts, Delta Fliers, Peregrine Fighters, Shield Repair Drones/shuttles. They're self sufficient hangars as long as your familiar with the technology.
The Hangars for the Epocs, BoPs, Jem'hadar Attack Ship, Callistos, every other frigate in the game, stalkers, ect... all have special needs in order to function, either to fabracate replacement ships, or for maintainance and storage.
This is going to be off topic but I wonder what made all the ship prices (except for Lobi ships) plummet in pricing. Even the Vonph is down to 285 mil as of writing. Is it the Infinity Lockbox/Pack?