

5.000 base capacitors, 200 dissipation Vs. 3 fuel/lightyear), it does not have a better shield (5.000 base capacitors Vs. The Gryphon is D tier because it does not offer anything substatially better or different than the Heron, which is it's main competitor for it's role, it's not cheaper(20 DP Vs. 200 dissipation, same everything else*), which is more important for suport ships than for main line ships, and having the surveing equipament hullmod. 4.000 base capacitors, 300 dissipation Vs.

4 fuel/lightyear), having a better shield(7.000 base capacitors Vs. The venture is B- because it offers benefits in relation to the Mora carriers, which compete for the same niche, those benefits are being cheaper (15 DP Vs. Quote from: Ishman on January 02, 2021, 04:46:34 PM Gryphon in D tier, whew.

I'll leave Thaago to extol the virtues of the various frigates, as I don't use them much. It's just not a very fun ship to fly yourself because it's a slow foam block, but it is UNDENIABLY one of the strongest ships (admittedly the AI can't use it correctly without abusing weapon group quirks). That is, without resorting to spark drovers/converted hangar cheese. The only vanilla ship which can tank a gryphon's focus is the paragon, it lets you actually hunt down safely as you can delete the frigates and destroyers making your AI panic with a button click. Retreating and reengaging recharges the system, meaning you can use it twice per combat encounter. You realize you can use some weapon group trickery to make them actually good? Sabots linked together with a weapon to force them to fire, whereupon some ship eats 7,000 kinetic burst and 14,000 emp (this can be done 6 times before only having pods left and popping autoforge, for 12/24 rounds of get fluxed), and following up with a hurricane or locust.
