M1 or M2 for AP

burger1 · Post by **burger1** » Sat, 17. Dec 11, 22:28

Are M1 ships still useable in AP or will the fighter losses be too high making it too expensive.

TDKPS · Post by **TDKPS** » Sat, 17. Dec 11, 22:44

Tokyo packed with Fenrirs and Mjollnirs worked wonders for me as a quick reaction force against enemy fighters and corvettes. Almost no losses out of 50 (outnumbered 3:1 but with 85% missile fire) . Granted that Argon capitals had their ass handed to them by Kyotos while fighters stayed out of Flak range. Fighters against Flak is stupid expensive. And the extra hull helps, a lot. Just watch out for the missiles. And equipping a task force got easier and "cheaper" - my traders have been so profitable that I can afford to repair damaged fighters -. Of course it's much easier to maintain a Kyoto than a fleet of at least 100 fighters (I don't see why you would go on a war for a sector with less than two fully packed carriers).

EDIT: If you want it cheap on the long run, go with a powerful M2. You'll need it to protect the carrier group against capitals or a motherload of missiles inside a TS to resupply the fighters and carriers.

-TDKPS

Dwar · Post by **Dwar** » Sat, 17. Dec 11, 23:37

You have two fully packed carriers in an AP game already? Is it modified?

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 17. Dec 11, 23:39

The game has been out for 2 day... if you use nividium mining you could be half the way to the 2 quintillion money limit by now!

TDKPS · Post by **TDKPS** » Sat, 17. Dec 11, 23:56

Dwar: Yeah, it's modified because of several scripts and mods - cockpit and ships - I ported to AP. I sold the Katana, bought a fighter to explore and do some missions, bought a freighter and equipped it with a JD, mined NV and sold it, with the money I used the Teladi shipyard script in the S&M part of the forum to save my preferences and build my Demeter Superfreighter XL fleet, half went to trade and half to nvidium, after some time, I had over 400mil that I invested solely in DSFXLs, no more NV mining after this point. I started exploring the rest of the universe along with other valkyries running explorer software and dropped satellites to get a notion of the market. After that, I just ran one LT per sector and a hundred and some UTs. Over 20mil profit per hour, built factory loops, supporting logistics with CLS2 and Aegirs (escort big armed ) freighter. Seta 10X overnight. Set up Kyotos, Vidars, Fenrirs, Tokyos, Tyrs and put on an overlapping patrol. Waited for profits to roll in while I played with the enemy in a Vidar. Built a fleet pretty quickly and now I'm kicking some Argon butt and testing the new boarding system.

Edit: Fixed spacing

-TDKPS

Catra · Post by **Catra** » Sun, 18. Dec 11, 00:08

boarding is so much smoother now.

rather, spacewalk boarding is smoother. =P

Post by **Cycrow** » Sun, 18. Dec 11, 00:10

M1's are the best ships to use as a fleet commander.

any fighters in the fleet will also use it as a resupply base and protection when they have no fleet orders

Post by **Cycrow** » Sun, 18. Dec 11, 00:11

EmperorJon wrote:The game has been out for 2 day... if you use nividium mining you could be half the way to the 2 quintillion money limit by now!

u sure u wont run out of nvidium?

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Sun, 18. Dec 11, 00:17

Well as long as he doesn't enter the sector the nividium mining is taking place then supply will never end.

...right?

Post by **Cycrow** » Sun, 18. Dec 11, 00:19

KloHunt3r wrote:Well as long as he doesn't enter the sector the nividium mining is taking place then supply will never end.

...right?

maybe u should give it a try

Revenat342 · Post by **Revenat342** » Sun, 18. Dec 11, 00:22

I smell a fixed exploit ;p

(Though if blown-up station class asteroids still respawn there's still technically unlimited nvidium)

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M1 or M2 for AP

M1 or M2 for AP