I use mine for space salvage missions. It soaks up damage from multiple hostiles whilst the collector limpets do their thing. It's a tough cookie, heavy as a brick. Awesome drift. I love it.
My beloved Federal Dropship - Good niche uses?
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I use mine for space salvage missions. It soaks up damage from multiple hostiles whilst the collector limpets do their thing. It's a tough cookie, heavy as a brick. Awesome drift. I love it.
Another vote for mining from me.
My FDS is a permanent fixture at Delkar, ready for when things need to get rockin'
My FDS is a permanent fixture at Delkar, ready for when things need to get rockin'
Troopship for planetary landings of course.
Trade it for a FAS - TWO coffee makers!
I've been trying to work out what I want to use my Gunship for. I wish the damn coffee machine would work, though.
You have to engineer it first.
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I kit my FDS out for attacking settlements. That was great fun, but I haven't done it in a while. I also like bounty hunting in it. It has 4 dumbfire missile launchers and a fixed beam, so it's a fun challenge.
I'm really not a fan of the Federal ships, but the FDS makes a really good anti-Thargoid ship with Guardian weaponry. I'm currently running two Gauss Cannons and two Plasma Chargers, but I reckon it'd be even more effective with four Gauss Cannons.
I have a couple of them at the moment, not sure what happened to the third one, anyways...I use mine for anything and everything when there is a high risk element. It has become one of my favorite ships without a doubt.
I have one down in the Pleiades for, well doing Pleiades stuff, be it mats gathering, killing Goids, rescue missions, CG's etc.
The other is in my one of my home bases and is becoming one of my most used ships.
It is set up for mining and is good at it but on the way to a mining spot I'll stop in at any USS be it degraded threat 0 or a weapons fire threat 4 and come away with the mats. I'll bounty hunt in a Haz res with it then stop and mine whilst waiting for pirates to respawn. It is a true multipurpose.
My Python just kind of sits there, I know it is capable but I just prefer flying the FDS. It's a great ship and very underrated.
I have one down in the Pleiades for, well doing Pleiades stuff, be it mats gathering, killing Goids, rescue missions, CG's etc.
The other is in my one of my home bases and is becoming one of my most used ships.
It is set up for mining and is good at it but on the way to a mining spot I'll stop in at any USS be it degraded threat 0 or a weapons fire threat 4 and come away with the mats. I'll bounty hunt in a Haz res with it then stop and mine whilst waiting for pirates to respawn. It is a true multipurpose.
My Python just kind of sits there, I know it is capable but I just prefer flying the FDS. It's a great ship and very underrated.
The Dropship makes a good PvP combat ship. The weapon placements are perfect for fixed and it is quite agile FAOff.
This. I have wasted a bunch of unsuspecting FdL-Commanders in mine, who clearly underestimated the Dropship's combat potential.
Mining ship. Pirate Ship. Armed Trader. Planetary work. The Dropship is quite a versatile craft.
I used mine for mining, open up the early engineer (the armour one!). I then converted it to a passenger ship and went to war zones to pick up refugees - the space ambulance. Turns out there was not much money in being charitable so sold it.
Admiration for the Fed Dropship is best kept secret, those shields are very thin.
Simon
Admiration for the Fed Dropship is best kept secret, those shields are very thin.
Simon
Was that before or after it landed on his head?
I did this with my FGS, one large beam and all the rest dumbfires... I giggled when I fired a full salvo at the generator and it vaporized.
On the way back I got interdicted, so I used the large beam to drop his shields, the fighter to distract him and two salvos of dumbfires to waste him... I laughed all the way to the staroort!
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I too love the audio of this ship. The coffee makers are a nice touch as well.
Refitted the Blue Bison for mats collection and had a lot of fun with it last night. Threat level 4 USS’s and also cleaned up on Cadmium on Europa. Now it’s time to get my beams on this ship upgraded to G5 efficient. She has 1xL and 2xM G3 efficient beams right now along with a 2xM Seeker Missles which I also to engineer. I am also thinking I might go G5 clean drives just to try to keep the heat down.
I use mine for small-scale liberation missions. Works quite well, as long as I don't bite more than I can chew.
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Good choice on the G5 clean drives, I had dirty drives before but even scooping became a bit of a problem.
Clean drives for the win this time.
Adventure playground for other SRV drivers.
Your loss then, it's not like the Empire has anything competitive to offer.
It was stated in lore to be a fav of assault forces and seems built for that. Indeed I see the FAS as CAP fighter and FGS as defence supression with additional close in air defence via SLF. The FDS would be the carrier of assault teams in armed vehicles that then adds in additional fire support like a LCT. Tankiness,weak shields and slow speed would be the fit of such a team - with FAS the fastest as higher level CAP. To me they make less sense as space fighters.
But this type of game mechanic is far off.
But this type of game mechanic is far off.