If you commit to going Terran, you're in for some headaches.Īmong the Commonwealth, I prefer the Split ships. Commonwealth ships require less investment and are cheaper to produce, Terran ships are superior but more expensive and require a weapon production infrastructure set up by the player. It is a quantity versus quality type of deal. There are also way less Terran weapon factories than Commonwealth factories, so equipping even a single M2 is a pain. Among other things, they don't have any protein paste blending facilities which is their main food ingredient, so the Terran faction slowly starves to death upon game start. The Albion Prelude expansion to X3: Terran Conflict adds a healthy dose of war to the exploration and freeform space trading sim, along with 30 new ships and a dynamic stock exchange designed to liven up X3's commerce. This is supposedly 'balanced' by the fact that Terran and ATF ships are harder to equip efficiently since the Terran economy was neglected by egosoft. As for M7/M1/M2 its mostly a matter of opinion. On paper, the Terran ships, but most of all the ATF ships, will always be better than any Commonwealth ship of the same class. Aldrin M3s are the best fighters, Springblossom is the best M6 (some think Hyperion Vanguard (or something like that) and i see their point, my preference is the 'blossom). Right then, assuming you're playing vanilla.: The best site for comparing ships in my opinion is Roguey's website. Fighter shield regeneration hardly matters in OOS. Ammunition-based weapons are not appropriate for OOS (used a whole crate per turn in Terran Conflict, this might have changed in AP. Many ships fall to a Xenon Q in the first round of OOS combat. You can look up all the ships in a particular class, compare their statistics with each other, and decide which one you would like the best based on that. Bigger shields is better than anything else.

All ships have strengths and weaknesses, and which would suit you best depends on your play style and the job you need the ship to do.īest advice I can give is to check out the X3 wiki, that has stats for pretty much every ship on there.

And that's not taking into account other factors such as price, availabillity, upgradabillity, etc etc. And both of them may be outclassed by Teladi ships in terms of shield strength, since the Teladi are known for making their ships highly shielded. But they also tend to be very slow, and can be pipped to good deals by Split Caimans, which are much quicker but have less cargo space. That question isn't really answerable, since it all depends on what use you are planning to put the ship to, what you need it for.įor example, in standard freighters, the Boron Dolphin usually has the highest freight capacity, which is important in a trading vessel.

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