How can I tell which fighters have the best power output?

[Snip3rNife]

Read title. There doesn't seem to be any way of telling. I've tried to make my setup as efficient as possible and I still run out of energy too fast, so I want a ship with more power.

This is for my Mercenary account, so any ship from a place I'm not hostile with should do. I'm really only hostile with the Junkers, Hessians, Outcasts, Rogues, and anyone allied with those factions.

Oh, and just to make it easier for you guys to help me. My current ship is the Stinger, and my current setup is two Skyblast B photon blasters, two Nomad Blasters and two Tizona del Cid pulse cannons. I plan to replace those Tizonas with Colacas, so it'll only get worse.

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[Razr]

It's pretty simple, just get the ships you want to test, put the same loadout on all of them. After that you fire one shot and take a screen shot. Then you do the same for every ship, and study how much power has been drained from each ship.

[Lt.Cmdr.Olsav]

there must be a more logical and less time soncuming method, i mean capital ships have power output displayed with ship info, fighters should have the same.

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[Dopamino]

I agree. I've been pretty disappointed with some ships after buying them. this should definitely be added to the next release if possible.

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[Knucklehead]

Adding the info to the infocards is doable, but some other critical info would probably need to be sacrificed.

Also, there is the fact that each ship has an invisible (in this mod and Vanilla) equipment point for the powerplant. That means that, in theory, there could be several ships that use the same powerplant, and if Igiss ever decided to put it in*, the possibility of changing them. With that possibility, the power ratings would no longer be tied to the ships directly.



*Please don't ever put this in. It would make things almost impossible to balance, as people would probably try to put a battleship powerplant on a VHF, which would be a disaster waiting to happen. Of course, chances are, this is exactly the reason we don't have changable powerplants.

PS: This could open up a possibility for some nasty punishments for rulebreakers. Imagine giving a battleship the powerplant from a starflier, replacable only by the admins. They could even RP it as sabotage...

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It's official, I have too few ships now...

[Dopamino]

Why would other info be sacrificed? putting in powerplants sounds like a bad idea to me. just more stuff u have to buy to stay competitive.

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[Virus]

Well... Other than buying and testing there is no way. Though, the stinger does seem to me to be a ship that's on the "light" end of its class. Try out a Titan, Raven's Talon, Wrath, or Manta. They all should have bigger plants, I think.

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[Snip3rNife]

Alright. I guess it's time to put some more money on my Mercenary then.

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[greg911]

have you tried FL stat?

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[Hylden]

Nomad Fighter. That one haves the best power source.