Federal factions
- Thread starter AnvadicA
- Start date
There is zero bonus to support Federation or any superpower in a war. You either pick whichever side you desire or the side you actually want to win.
What makes you say it's popular?
Not explicitly.
Implicitly, I thought it was fairly well established that the Federal AI + Ships dominate CZs compared to the other factions. The imperial capitalship is has pool noodles for guns, and the Empire's severe shortage of medium ships means it's severely outclassed in all CZ spawns. Alliance and Independent lineups are a bit better, but still not as powerful as the Feds.
As an Imperial supporter, I always thought CZs were pretty tough, until I went and fought for a Federal faction (during a CG). I couldn't believe how reliably I could blitz High CZs in quick time when supporting the Federation.
The 4 Federal ships are the most well rounded ships in CZs, yes. Now capital ships are a massive hindrance in a High CZ in my opinion since any solo player in an engineered to the teeth large ship can delete a capital ship from a CZ in a minute.
Now the Alliance is nothing to be sneezed at in a CZ either. They use Type-10s which believe it or not are deadly as hell. Also the 3 Alliance ships are hit point tanks like Federal ships but they have drives made of glass so just aim at those and watch the ship spin off into the distance.
Now I'm an albeit Federation hater cause all my PMF's problems are because of NPC factions being Federation and since people think they're Federation patriots they flock to helping stop the Independent faction from hurting the Federation. It doesn't work since they're all idiots that don't know BGS etc. With that said I've learned that Federal ships aren't as great as people think. They're just annoying because they soak up hits and fly bite you with their pitiful firepower minus the Vette since that actually has guns.
Federal CZs are far easier, it's clearly unbalanced. Let an imperial capital ship hit you and see how long you survive. Then make the same test with a federal capital ship.
You can also test not doing anything in a CZ and letting it happen naturally, and see which side eventually wins.
You can also test not doing anything in a CZ and letting it happen naturally, and see which side eventually wins.