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so whats your favorite ship and why?

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Tokenar
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#61 - 2013-05-14 19:50:49 UTC
Dominix

Many people will complain that it's ugly, but I guess I flew it so much that I really learned to appreciate its looks. The two little exhausts on the back have the same charm as the wings on an old cadillac, and I imagine that the round cilinder in the middle of the ship is some kind of a mean drone factory. I like how gun hardpoints are positioned around it. And it has a little bridge on top! It's cute.

With drones being probably the most versatile weapon system out there, it makes it possible to fit a Dominix in a thousand different ways - and all fits work. PVP, PVE, RR, sniping, brawling, neut, shield tank, armor tank....and the sugar on top - it's probably the cheapest battleship you can buy...
Echo Belly
#62 - 2013-05-14 20:20:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Echo Belly
I'm surprised no one mentioned the fastest ship to clear L4 missions : the fantasticly fast, amazingly agile, crazy cheap Probe ! O_O

Scan, loot and salvage entire rooms before the missioners even start screaming MOTHERF... and *poof* you're gone ^^
Minerva Zen
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#63 - 2013-05-14 20:24:15 UTC
Atron. I love that little sneak.

Second place goes to the Incursus. It looks like a cockroach and bites like a mantis. I find that generally charming.
Rahmiro
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#64 - 2013-05-14 21:17:06 UTC
Typhoon Fleet Issue! What's not to love?
Torps? Check.
AC's? Check.
Neuts? Check.
Heavy Drones? Check.
Flying rubbish can in space? Check!

King Tubby

I never seen these people in my life. I don't recognize them Your Honor

Shintoko Akahoshi
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#65 - 2013-05-14 21:55:05 UTC
A lot of this is for historical reasons.


  • Breacher: My favorite PVP frigate waaaay back in the day has been revamped and is now a contender again.
  • Ares: Back when interceptors were new and expensive, my corp had a BPO for this ship. I got them cheap and developed tactics that let me chew through other interceptors like popcorn.
  • Claw: Eventually replaced the Ares as my go-to interceptor. Fast, tough, and put out a crazy amount of damage. Best memories: Taking on a Zealot when Zealots were new. I got in under his guns and was getting him into low armor when he called in a friend in a Stabber to kill me. I fled, the Stabber pursued, I ended up getting in under the Stabbers guns and killed it, but the Zealot had gotten away.
  • Taranis: Eventually replaced the Claw as my go-to interceptor. Fast, tough, and put out an even crazier amount of damage. Best memories: Taking out (in separate fights) a Thorax and a Drake with a hull-tanked neutron gankaranis.
  • Thorax: My first real love in a cruiser, used mainly either as a hull-tanked gankacruiser or a massively armor tanked "surprise!" ship with frigate guns.Best memories: in the "surprise!" loadout, once took on 5 frigates (mix of t1, inties and AFs) simultaneously and destroyed 4 of them (the 5th warped away). The same ship later killed a Prophecy in a 1v1.
  • Megathron: The Plated Neutron Gankathron. Best memories: I once MWDed 60km to an Armageddon on SiSi in one of these things and killed it before I ran out of armor.
  • Ashimmu: I've only rarely used an Ashimmu in combat, but I always feel like Reavers when I do. Big smile

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R1ck James
T'era-Shifta
Acme Demolition
#66 - 2013-05-14 23:18:20 UTC
Neutron Taranis. Not what it once was, but still love it.
Stonkeep
Osmanli Empire
#67 - 2013-05-14 23:40:12 UTC
Vindi for me. Megathron hull is sexy and I always wanted a Kronos, a mean machine. However, Vindi is better in every way so it became my favourite.
Taoist Dragon
Okata Syndicate
#68 - 2013-05-15 00:51:14 UTC
Arbitrator and it's T2 brothers, Pilgrim and Curse.

They are by far the best looking ships in game....and effective at what they do as well!!

That is the Way, the Tao.

Balance is everything.

Minister of Death
Colossus Enterprises
#69 - 2013-05-15 02:00:40 UTC
Typhoon. For me, the most fun ship in all of Eve.
Garresh
Mackies Raiders
Wild Geese.
#70 - 2013-05-15 08:17:31 UTC
Typhoon and Fire tail and jaguar. For all my PvE needs the typhoon will find a way. For all my Pvp solo the fire tail is great, and in fleets the jag works as a "heavy fire tail".

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Celeste Taylor
Ruby Dynasty
#71 - 2013-05-15 08:21:35 UTC
I have fun in the Gallente drone boats too! The Vindicator looks awesome but I spend far more time in the Navy Dom.

My Achura pretty much lives in her force recon ship, and I really should get this character trained up for a Falcon since I love this ship. Although force recon ships are mainly used for tackling and offense I use it to zip around the universe unseen. Have alignment down to 0.2700 (which is a bit higher than my Viator 2.2?) and HP and sig also fairly close to my Viators stats. The final results is a ship that is almost as slippery as a blockade runner, but with drones, ECM and guns for minor enemies.
Bea Love
Antiqua Vero
The Ancients.
#72 - 2013-05-15 14:12:16 UTC
I prefer the Vagabond - i feel like sitting in an really dangerous ship - it makes me feel like a bad-ass pirate. The ship design ist made for very fast encounters and spreading solo fear all over the place.

At least i like Assault frigs and covert-op frigs just for traveling long routes solo. I prefer the Anathema - Bobba Fett looking - style. And the Jaguar - Rupture.

I have to say, that i love all those ships wich are surviving over a longer period.
uh and i name them like pornstars. The frigs are all called MS Lexi Belle and the bigger sized random sometimes MS Sasha Grey - sometimes other names Twisted
Hungry Eyes
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#73 - 2013-05-15 15:42:28 UTC
nano gila (with some sentries in it). it's good at everything.
Infinity Ziona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#74 - 2013-05-15 16:20:51 UTC
Thorax - old plate, small blaster fit was cool
Mega - fav ship till BS pvp became suicide
Blaster Proteus - its the above two ships rolled into one with more tank and a covert cloak, pure win

CCP Fozzie “We can see how much money people are making in nullsec and it is, a gigantic amount, a shit-ton… in null sec anomalies. “*

Kaalrus pwned..... :)

Speedkermit Damo
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#75 - 2013-05-15 16:51:54 UTC
Cable Udan wrote:
The Vengeance by far.

It's one of the most tankiest frigate-sized hulls in the game and since the v3 shaders were released it just oozes lethality. The rehash of launcher animations only compounded how sleek and deadly this ship is.

I name mine Electron Blue, in memory of Taurean Eltanin, who no longer has the time to play Eve and is the guy who inspired me to jump immediately into a life of piracy when I started playing Eve.



This,


Taurean's blog is what inspired me to start playing Eve. I even started my own Punisher plan.

For this and the fact that it's such a damn good-looking ship, I choose the Vengeance annd it's counterpart, the Retribution.

I also have a soft spot for the Stabber Fleet Issue.

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#76 - 2013-05-15 16:59:21 UTC
The Gneiss Cruiser, everybody is selling them and a lot of people are buying it!
it´s like the NEW CRUISER to Have!

Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco: http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco

Harry Forever
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#77 - 2013-05-15 18:18:00 UTC
Bea Love wrote:
I prefer the Vagabond - i feel like sitting in an really dangerous ship - it makes me feel like a bad-ass pirate. The ship design ist made for very fast encounters and spreading solo fear all over the place.

At least i like Assault frigs and covert-op frigs just for traveling long routes solo. I prefer the Anathema - Bobba Fett looking - style. And the Jaguar - Rupture.

I have to say, that i love all those ships wich are surviving over a longer period.
uh and i name them like pornstars. The frigs are all called MS Lexi Belle and the bigger sized random sometimes MS Sasha Grey - sometimes other names Twisted


:D I need to name one of mine like a pornstar as well :D funny :D
gabrial13
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#78 - 2013-05-21 20:29:34 UTC
Arty armour loki , Pure alpha to the face, webtastic and good tank to boot
Pretty intense
Kay Ahn
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#79 - 2013-05-21 21:08:08 UTC
Malediction - sweet and fast, and sort of versatile too. And for solo/pve brawl, Vengeance (fingers crossed for higher resolution textures). Well, and other Khanid ships.
San Jina
Just Another Industrial Corp
#80 - 2013-05-21 23:21:33 UTC
Megathron,

Because it is the reason I subbed to Eve in the first place.