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Easiest to Hardest ships to fly
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Gabrielle Lamb
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-09-06 04:48:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Gabrielle Lamb
This forum is getting a bit too serious lately, so I need a light hearted discussion on the easiest and hardest ships to fly. Stick to ships that actually get flown though, a ship is not necessarily hard to fly because it sucks or suck because its hard to fly.

So, what ships do you think varies most performance wise, based on individual pilot skill and experience? And which one is the most dumbed down ship in the game?
William Walker
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#2 - 2012-09-06 06:04:59 UTC
Easiest: Drake

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Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#3 - 2012-09-06 06:08:37 UTC
I think it mostly comes down to fittings.

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GsyBoy
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-09-06 09:52:52 UTC
If easiest comes down to the ships which require the least attention/piloting skills than it is a lot easier flying a marauder on a Lvl 4 angel extravaganza then it is to fly a dramiall in a small pvp gang.

Easy
PVE
armor/shield tank
Sit there and shot
Hard
PVP
speed/sig tank
Staying at optimal, ducking in and out, getting in the proverbal and making it back out again :-)

If easiest come down to cheap fits you can have fun with, anything (e.g. bc) with a tank and webs will give you some entertainment against smaller stuff.

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Ashimat
Clandestine Services
#5 - 2012-09-06 12:07:59 UTC
Don't fly them so much myself, but isn't dictors pretty demanding? Its a fast ship that everybody wants dead and that you need to actually fly and put in the right place to be able to drop bubbles. This in parallel with the tactical dimension of where and when to actually bubble.

Also logis: It's a huge difference in a experienced logi-pilot and a green one. Making them "hard" to fly I guess?

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Meditril
Hoplite Brigade
Ushra'Khan
#6 - 2012-09-06 13:14:51 UTC
Easiest ship to fly: Drake... just tank and spank with missiles... you even don't need to move.

Hardest ship to fly: Scythe Fleet issue... fitting is already a nightmare not to speak about using it in the fight. But once you know what it can and learned to fly it adequatly you will love it.
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-09-06 13:23:02 UTC
William Walker wrote:
Easiest: Drake

tengu. no drones.

I should buy an Ishtar.
Gabrielle Lamb
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-09-06 14:03:45 UTC
GsyBoy wrote:
If easiest comes down to the ships which require the least attention/piloting skills than it is a lot easier flying a marauder on a Lvl 4 angel extravaganza then it is to fly a dramiall in a small pvp gang.


I guess easiest would mean the ones that have the most room for errors. Such as not recognizing an enemy likely to kill you, reacting fast enough or not having the ability to correct a mistake if its made.
Charlie Jacobson
#9 - 2012-09-06 14:18:15 UTC
Shuttles are pretty easy to fly.

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Chimpy B
The Philosophy Of Two
#10 - 2012-09-06 14:26:33 UTC
Hard could mean any of:
- High skill requirements
- Difficult to fit
- Effort required to use in combat
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#11 - 2012-09-06 15:41:16 UTC
Charlie Jacobson wrote:
Shuttles are pretty easy to fly.

i like your avatar

I should buy an Ishtar.
Velarra
#12 - 2012-09-06 15:49:41 UTC
Easy<------------------------------------------------>Hard
Frigate---------------Battle Cruiser--------------Frigate
Ginger Barbarella
#13 - 2012-09-06 16:09:32 UTC
Daniel Plain wrote:
William Walker wrote:
Easiest: Drake

tengu. no drones.


Requires minimum Cruiser 5. Drake doesn't have that painful threshold. Lol

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Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#14 - 2012-09-06 16:54:26 UTC
The hardest ships to fly I know of are solo Logis, gang Logis, and then sig/speed tanked brawler frigs. Nothing quite like having everyone in the fight shooting you and having to manage your own + everyone else's health. There's also nothing quite like using a sheet of paper as your tank and going into neut/web range where even one mistake will instapop you. Lol

-Liang

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Aaron Greil
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2012-09-06 17:11:44 UTC
easiest: (as in, easy mode) to hardest

Drake and cane.
tengu
minmatar ships in general
stealth bombers
falcon
Cynabal and dram

harb/myrm
tier 3 BCs
other recons
HACS

pvp Battleships
Logis
Blackops
Commandships



Thats my opinion anyway.
Kusum Fawn
Perkone
Caldari State
#16 - 2012-09-06 18:22:19 UTC
noob ships

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titan

noob ships because everyone can fly them and get them for free
titans because you have to sit in a pos all day and send other people to go have fun (or at least a fight) while you wait there and do nothing.

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Maxxatan
SSEO KG
#17 - 2012-09-06 20:33:42 UTC
Leviathan is the easiest to fly. You just sit there and shoot things using your one type of missile and DD. You used all your mids for hardeners so there's nothing to do there either. You can align to something but at 80 m/s you will not make much progress. And generally your FC will just tell you what to do.

The hardest single ship to fly is probably a frigate, pvp with frigates can involve exceptional amounts of skill which other classes lack.

Some people say Logis are hard but with 1u1d and fleet broadcasts it's pretty simple really.

Multi boxing a nano gang is nightmarish if you don't have software, but that's more of a fleet rather than a single ship.

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Jasmine Shepard
Relentless Destruction
Immediate Destruction
#18 - 2012-09-06 23:43:14 UTC
Any frig with an mwd is easy to fly.
Jude Lloyd
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2012-09-07 01:12:39 UTC
Jasmine Shepard wrote:
Any frig with an mwd is easy to fly.


Lol...

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To mare
Advanced Technology
#20 - 2012-09-07 04:59:43 UTC
I find nano/kite ships the hardest to fly because you always have to manouver to stay out of scram/web range and most of the time you have to live on the edge because if you go too far your damage sux.
Close range blaster ship are a bit easier to fly because the only difficulty there is to land a proper tackle once you catch them there is not much you can do you are not going to run away if you lose its a all or nothing situation.
Then there are the fleet ships that are designed to be part of a fleet and most of the time they are the easiest to fly because you just have to follow orders.
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