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Fastest Ship in Albion.

Post by AjRyder » Mon, 18. Feb 13, 19:50

A simple questoin, what is the fastest ship in game.

Would be handy if I can buy it!!

cheers

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Re: Fastest Ship in Albion.

Post by Dog G6 » Mon, 18. Feb 13, 19:55

AjRyder wrote:A simple questoin, what is the fastest ship in game.

Would be handy if I can buy it!!

cheers

kirk ;)
I believe it is the Kestrel, which is an M5 Teladi ship. I may be incorrect, however, but that's what I had found when I looked it up before. It supposedly has a max speed of 605/ms, whether that is engine-tuned or not, I have no idea.
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Post by ApatheticEthic » Mon, 18. Feb 13, 19:57

I believe the fastest ships were some M5s that are supposed to be racing ships. The problem is that they're rare, unbuyable, and too fast to capture. You could always buy the Teladi Kestrel though. It's the fastest ship you can buy.

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Post by DrBullwinkle » Wed, 20. Feb 13, 05:41

The fastest ship that you can buy is the Kestrel. It is the best all-around M5, and is bargain-priced. Kestrel can carry M-size cargo (Triplex Scanner, Jump Drive, Passengers) so it is ideal for small taxi missions, and any scout/scanning duty. It is even decent in a fight (for an M5); Kestrel is the only M5 in the game with rear turrets for Missile Defense.

Kestrel is often the first ship that I buy in a new game.

Arrow and Starburst are faster, but you will have to find and capture them (rare). However, lack of guns and S-sized cargo limit their usefulness -- even for scanning.

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Post by Selvasis » Wed, 20. Feb 13, 06:00

I thought it was the Paranid Pegasus?

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Post by DrBullwinkle » Wed, 20. Feb 13, 06:10

Pegasus Raider is moderately fast (477). Jaguar Raider, Octopus Raider, Harrier Raider are faster (596, 543 and 526). Fujin Raider has same max speed as Pegasus Raider (477).

There is an Enhanced Jaguar with a maximum speed of 602. It is a reward ship only.

Kestrel is faster than any of them (605/635).
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Post by jack775544 » Wed, 20. Feb 13, 08:00

The pirate variant of the Kestrel is faster than the standard Kestrel (but you can't buy the pirate version).
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Post by AjRyder » Wed, 20. Feb 13, 12:58

I only wanted it to fly around the map and map all of the universe. I always do it, however I used to use a Xenon N and then last time I used a spring blossom...

However now we are at war apart from capping the spring, which is useless without weapons, I now had to use something else!

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Post by Earth Ultimatum IV. » Wed, 20. Feb 13, 16:25

Pirate Kestrel is the fastest ship of game from all ships you can meet in universe. Otherwise, Arrow is the fastest, but you can´t get it without cheats.

Pirate Kestrel can be captured from pirates relatively easly.

Or, a Teladi Kestrel, which can be bought at any teladi Shipyard.

Comparing these ships, mentioned above:
http://roguey.co.uk/x3ap/ships/compare.php
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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Wed, 20. Feb 13, 16:38

Selvasis wrote:I thought it was the Paranid Pegasus?
It was in X2, but the whole ship speed landscape changed in X3.
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Post by aXeldk » Wed, 20. Feb 13, 17:41

Hahha I remember the pegasus from X2 :D man you outrun just about anything and when seta+1kms your cpu went funny :P

but yeah a kestrel is pretty much the fastest ship ingame :P and also the most easy way to get flyswapped when getting too close to a solar powerplant with seta on :P
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Post by sadron » Wed, 20. Feb 13, 19:06

ApatheticEthic wrote:I believe the fastest ships were some M5s that are supposed to be racing ships. The problem is that they're rare, unbuyable, and too fast to capture. You could always buy the Teladi Kestrel though. It's the fastest ship you can buy.
I've never even seen an Arrow. I don't think they're ingame.

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