https://elite.mistflux.co.uk/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=90.3.38.51 2026-10-31T20:20:44Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.46.2 https://elite.mistflux.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Talk:Federal_Dropship/@comment-90.3.38.51-20160125024035&diff=83610 2016-01-25T02:40:35Z

<p>90.3.38.51: Created page with &quot;I&#039;ve flown this ship for long hours (PVE only) and eventually sold it. Positive points : Extremely tanky, very good DPM. Good power management as well. I&#039;ve spent hours in ha...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>I've flown this ship for long hours (PVE only) and eventually sold it.<br /> <br /> Positive points : Extremely tanky, very good DPM. Good power management as well. I've spent hours in hazardous RES, making millions of credits in bounty hunting and never coming back to a station with less 85% hull - was B rated at best. You will only get in trouble when facing wings, but you can 1V1 any ship with ease.<br /> <br /> Negative points : it is slow, hard to manoeuvre and extremely drifty, not that impressive in terms of cargo capacity, has terrible jump range and jump capacity (fuel tank).<br /> <br /> What it's good at :<br /> <br /> -RES/CZ farming if you like big tanky ships that handles like locomotive.<br /> <br /> -Mining (Never tested, but it should be perfect for that)<br /> <br /> And.... Well this is it.<br /> <br /> Trading ? Too short on carghold and jumprange.<br /> <br /> Smuggling ? Way to slow and bulky for the task.<br /> <br /> Exploration ? This is all about jumprange, any other ship has more.<br /> <br /> Missions ? Short range trade missions, yes (providing your cargohold is sufficient). But I would not use it for smuggling/interception/assassination/any long range stuff<br /> <br /> Yet, this ship is supposed to be the multipurpose variant of the Federal Ships.<br /> <br /> Caught between the Asp Explorer that has -for half the price- only a slightly inferior cargo capacity, a fantastic jumprange, decent speed and manoeuvrabilty, and its bigger brother, the Federal Assault ship, which is much more mobile and thus efficient in combat -for only 5 millions more-, the FDS eventually stands as a pretty useless piece of metal.<br /> <br /> It remains a fun ship to fly (drifts like hell), gets rid of smaller ships in the blink of an eye, with a beautiful cockpit and arguably a nice military look. But without, at least, a substantial increase in jumprange, even as an entry ship to the Federal line there are no rational justification to trade any other multi purpose ship for the FDS.</div>

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