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Star Cruiser or Patrol Escort?

glenn#1579 glenn
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I have a fair chunk of Dil and have noticed these two ships available to buy.

Are either better than an Assault Cruiser, given unlimited ECs for upgrades? If so which would you peeps recommend?

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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    You can do better than either. Specifically save up the dilithium for something from the c-store (I know, it's a lot more but if you want to use the ship for combat it's going to pay off in the long run.)

    But if your heart is set on one of the cheap T5 alternatives, I'd go with the patrol escort. The Star Cruiser has very limited damage dealing potential while the patrol escort is, well, an escort. It's tolerably setup and if you want to go back to a cruiser your assault cruiser is still waiting (which is preferable in any case to the star cruiser.)
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    Get anything but the star cruiser.

    It's literally the worst Fed ship you can ever possibly get.
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  • tempus64tempus64 Member Posts: 806 Arc User
    If EC isn't a problem for you, make sure you check into the mirror variants of the ships you're looking at. They're often better in terms of seating/consoles etc than the free/dil versions. Prices for mirror ships just went way up due to admiralty but even so, depending on how much dil you have, you still might be able to convert to zen, buy keys and sell those for the ec to buy a mirror ship.
  • glenn#1579 glenn
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    Got loads of EC not Dil.

    Just bought the Patrol Escort, spent the thick end of 100,000 EC and it is TRIBBLE.

    I will stay with my Sovvy.
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    seaofsorrows wrote: »
    Get anything but the star cruiser.

    It's literally the worst Fed ship you can ever possibly get.

    But it's such a beautiful ship (or selection of ships)... Time to Tier-6-fy it and make it good!
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  • huntor2huntor2 Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    duncanidaho11 wrote: »
    The Star Cruiser has very limited damage dealing potential

    I Can do 35K DPS with mine and Im sure some DPS wizards can do more with it. You wont break any DPS record with it but it can pull it's weight if builded well. It's a fun ship.




  • huntor2huntor2 Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    huntor2 wrote: »
    duncanidaho11 wrote: »
    The Star Cruiser has very limited damage dealing potential

    I Can do 35K DPS with mine and Im sure some DPS wizards can do more with it. You wont break any DPS record but it can pull it's weight if builded well. It's a fun ship.




  • glenn#1579 glenn
    glenn#1579
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    Well I gave it another go in the Delta Quadrant. Totally tooled up and it was still a dog.

    The firepower is impressive, while it lasts. the problem is, I couldn't make it last.

    \played some campaign and other missions. Had one recently where I had to take on a Harojan carrier. Woohoo says I (having killed a few in the past) lets do some killing. But no, oh no. The heavy phaser cannons looked very pretty and DS9. They even kicked in a shield but they then just started burping until I got rapid fire again.

    If I am wrong, so be it, but my Sovvy feels good.
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    duncanidaho11 wrote: »
    The Star Cruiser has very limited damage dealing potential
    huntor2 wrote: »
    I Can do 35K DPS with mine and Im sure some DPS wizards can do more with it. You wont break any DPS record with it but it can pull it's weight if builded well. It's a fun ship.

    Technically, its true. It does have limited DPS potential. It's no Scimitar after all. But then this is a very easy game, so you don't actually need that much DPS potential to succeed if you know how to realize that potential.

    35k is more than enough not only to pull its weight, but also to carry a team of newbies in their trash builds with it.
  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    seaofsorrows wrote: »
    Get anything but the star cruiser.

    It's literally the worst Fed ship you can ever possibly get.

    But it's such a beautiful ship (or selection of ships)... Time to Tier-6-fy it and make it good!

    I do love the old spoon-whale, even if it's not the greatest ship. The recommendation upthread to dil up some science ships is a good one, there never seems to be enough sci in Admiralty.
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  • tiriusavarotiriusavaro Member Posts: 92 Arc User
    I found both the Patrol Escort and the Star Cruiser great fun to fly, my initial 2 characters each flew one. The Patrol Escort stands out as one of the beefier escorts IMO, it can take quite a bit of damage. The Tempest variant from the C-store also comes with a very nice "artillery" console.

    The Star Cruiser, as noted above, is not the best ship by any means, but it can still pack quite a whallop. It is easily the tankiest basic tier 5 ship, although I had to slap some RCS consoles on mine to get it's turn rate into an acceptable range (currently running 3 of them, the R&D special and 2 fleet ones put me over 20 turn rate). It is a great looking ship though, I'm using the Vanguard triangular saucer and the compact Nomad hull on mine and it's still my favorite design after all these years.
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