Ships & Modules

Extra turret is negated by the cane's double bonus meaning they do about the same dps.
Cynabals, Tengu's, Loki's, all ships that generally have a MUCH better ability to disengage, and dare I say they're less "loseable" for want of a better term.
And yeah most people could afford to lose a couple of them, but they could afford to lose a truckload more 'canes. (hint it's not about being able to afford them, it's about their "value")

I will give you the 50% more tank, and better range, but when you run into gangs of 20+ that tank is only going to make you last a few seconds longer unless you have a LOT of remote reps


I'm not saying the command ships aren't better... I'm just saying there's not a big enough gap between them to justify the huge price difference.
9/10 times you'll be better off spending your isk on a 'cane

Yes the Gallente command ships are pretty useless; however, I have found one use for them. An Astarte with rails is simply the fastest way of doing Serp lvl3 missions. Just Serp mind you, Sleip and T3s are better otherwise.

Maxed command ships, maxed leadership skills checking in to say - Don't bother

Too many tech III with bubble immunity and nigh unprobability poncing around with less skill invested although more isk invested. CCP really fuckedup by giving tech IIIs better buff percentage and not limiting the number of links that could be fit on those ships, or restricting link buffs to only on-grid.

As for the sleip, nighthawk, abso in missions, I fly them all and they are nice options to a BS in level 4s. But again considering the sp invested you could get the same or better performance out of tech III op'd tengus or pirate op'd macharials and nightmares, or some of the marauders or navy faction ships.

And, unfortunately CCP seems totally oblivious to the many ways they are diminishing the performance payback on these ships with all the tech III and pirate caek and now tier 3 BC they are busy introducing to the game.

So, if you are iching to invest sp somewhere, put it into capital ships, or max tech III (not hard to do), or getting tech II on another weapon system, or really anywhere else. The day there is some squeak of concern about commands it might be worthwhile taking a second look at putting sp here, but for now as I said they are totally oblivious.

you are better of with t3 ship then command for few simple reasons...they look cooler would befor start...middle one would be they have better boost bonus....last one would be they can be gabzilion other things not just command ships .