Poll: Worst Ship Of The (time interval) Award

[Spikey00]

Although I feel many of these ships need a buff, I recommend the teleport battle station.  Juxtaposing them vs teleport raiders,

MK1 teleport battle station:
- Ship cap 24
- 1.6k damage * 8 shots, reload of 4 seconds; range of 4k
- Bonus multipliers of 2.4 vs:  light, polycrystal, swarmer, ultra-light
- Armour piercing of 600

MK1 teleport raiders:
- Ship cap 245
- 3.2k damage, reload of 8 seconds; range of 7k
- Bonus multipliers of 4.0 vs:  polycrystal, refractive, structural, ultra-light
- Armour piercing of 300


Very underwhelming, even as a teleporting unit.

[Eternaly_Lost]

I voted for the spider ship. Of the ones I have used, it seemed to do the worse of all of them. I was expecting it to be basicly a Spider turret with engines, but it turned out to be a short range engine damaging weapon. And given that I would often do the campain so I have EXO waves rushing in and I am looking for more ways to damage more engines to get the rest of the stuff time to kill everything, I honestly had expected a lot more of them.

I never picked them again after that game, I really think that they need to be sniper range, we have a lot of small range engine damaging weapons already, we really need a mobile Spider Turret.

However, the spider ship was not the ship that I think needs the most work. Given that I been trying to get the Reclaim 30,000 ships(or however many it was), I been using the Parasite a lot, and even with full caps I don't seem to get that many. Granted that might be because I am still doing the Fallen Spire campaign as well, so we talking large piles of ships on worlds as I advance or EXO waves flowing in, and at the end it looks like I got maybe 20-30 ships on high caps, and lost almost everyone of my Parasites. And that is in my turret ball with S. Fortresses helping as well. The AI seems to like killing them a little too much

[chemical_art]

I voted for the spider ship. Of the ones I have used, it seemed to do the worse of all of them. I was expecting it to be basicly a Spider turret with engines, but it turned out to be a short range engine damaging weapon. And given that I would often do the campain so I have EXO waves rushing in and I am looking for more ways to damage more engines to get the rest of the stuff time to kill everything, I honestly had expected a lot more of them.

I never picked them again after that game, I really think that they need to be sniper range, we have a lot of small range engine damaging weapons already, we really need a mobile Spider Turret.

However, the spider ship was not the ship that I think needs the most work. Given that I been trying to get the Reclaim 30,000 ships(or however many it was), I been using the Parasite a lot, and even with full caps I don't seem to get that many. Granted that might be because I am still doing the Fallen Spire campaign as well, so we talking large piles of ships on worlds as I advance or EXO waves flowing in, and at the end it looks like I got maybe 20-30 ships on high caps, and lost almost everyone of my Parasites. And that is in my turret ball with S. Fortresses helping as well. The AI seems to like killing them a little too much

If possible, I'd make it so that newly reclaimed ships are paralyized and immune to damage for 10 seconds. Just to give them a bit of breathing room.

[Cyborg]

If possible, I'd make it so that newly reclaimed ships are paralyized and immune to damage for 10 seconds. Just to give them a bit of breathing room.

You would have to adjust for ship caps.

[Wanderer]

I'm putting in a vote for the spider.  I can't seem to get the blasted thing to work.

[Shrugging Khan]

CUTLASS FOR THE CUTLASS GOD!

[keith.lamothe]

Someone's been spending a little too much time hanging around the warp gates, I think

[Mánagarmr]

Snipers are absolutely brutal, used right.

[Mánagarmr]

Also I agree that armour as a concept likely needs a look at.

[TechSY730]

Also I agree that armour as a concept likely needs a look at.

I disagree. I think the current armour system works fine. It's the values that need to be looked at.

[Nodor]

I have no idea why Sentinal Frigate is on this list - it's one of my top 5 ships at the moment.

As for Zenith Polarizers, I've been known to ignore AI waves of 2000+ because they can't hurt anything.... except armor golems.  (And given the hordes of golems I'm seeing in Exo-galactic and FS strikes, that has a use.)

But the real loser is the Cutlass.   Something about a melee ship that can't close with anything.  Expensive cannon fodder that has zero effective damage. 

[keith.lamothe]

Cutlass Wins! (/mortal-kombat voice)

I wasn't expecting such obvious results, but I'll take them

[TechSY730]

Ah, the cutlass. They were OP as hell in the last stable version (5.000) so they were nerfed pretty hard. I guess a bit too hard, as this poll shows.

[chemical_art]

Any melee ship should catch another ship not specifically tuned to engines (meaning raptors)

[Shrugging Khan]

Really, the cutlass, as the only true blade-attack melee ship, would be my instant favourite even over the SSB or the Bombard, if only it weren't so bloody ineffective.

Besides, they're such brave, deserving little guys. "CHAAARGE!", I can practically hear them yell, "CHAAARGE FOR DEATH AND GLORY!"