at this tage i think the polaris part is just speculation, people wanting it to be that big.
Leaked images of Perseus. Looks like a cap ship killer!
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In my opinion you would loose a lot trading the Carrack for the Perseus. So far we do not know the ship details, but I doubt it will have the same features making it an independent ship able to sustain long travel, with hangar (you can put up to 3 razors or 2 m50 or 2 MPUV or one Buccaneer in the carrack), med bay, repair bay, big cargo hold which are actually MODULES! So future modules incoming
We now know that there will be Warbond CCU to Polaris 10 years insurance sold this IAE thanks to SC Leaks. So I suggest you take a Hammerhead to Polaris CCU, it will probably cost just 15$. And you could work on making that CCUed Polaris the coming years.
The Polaris has a med bay, hangar able to fit a Sabre if not more ships, potentially even a Mantis. It is a large ship and capital ship killer, has enough power to defend itself against fighters and other mosquitoes. Also quite decent cargo, potentially nice speed and able to go on duty for a long time.
The Perseus won't be even half of that I bet. No med bay for sure, no hangar, almost no guns for defense against fighters, probably small cargobay. It is just a large ship killer, we don't know yet if it is a cap ship killer, will depend on its main guns size.
Edit : if Perseus has S7 guns, by comparison to the Ares Ion, we know this is around 10k DPS at 8km+ for 4*S7 laser cannons. It is good, but it is probably no turrets meant for tracking fighters, so far I see just one or 2 smaller turrets and no missile pods unless hidden. Any fighter group will shred a Perseus without any issue. Won't be the same with a Polaris.
The Polaris has 28 S10 Torps, we don't know damage yet but a single S9 is 65k damage. Over 1.8 million damage at least, enough to shred an Idris. And it has 7 dual turrets S4 and S5, and 32 missiles (if S3 size i dont recall, that also makes 64 S2 missiles), enough to repel any fighter attack.
Perseus by comparison would need around 4 minutes of continuous fire and 100% hits to do the same amount of damage on an Idris
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I have an LTI 600I I have been looking to upgrade to something else... I think it will be come a Perseus!
According to the "leaks" so grain of salt, it's going to be 600 warbond, 675 credit.
According to the "leaks" so grain of salt, it's going to be 600 warbond, 675 credit.
PeppaPigKilla
Admiral
Given the nice small bump the MSR price increase gave my spare i'm hoping to ccu to this one.
Citadel
Space Marshal
Thinking about it there's a chance that I might look to get the perseus depending on the size and features -I have a Polaris but if the Perseus is anywhere near the concept size of the Polaris, then I think that'd be a good indication that the Polaris will grow and I'm not sure about having a bigger Polaris. Any bigger and I might as well swap it for an Idris.
The Polaris in that picture is way too big
Here is the picture from fleetview. As you can see, the polaris is much smaller than the 890, and the 890 is almost the size of the Javelin.
Great advice! I appreciate the breakdown. I will give it strong consideration. As I said, the Carrack is my dream ship so unless something truly amazing comes out, I won't likely part with it.
But . . .but . . . Carrack is love! Carrack is life
I also forgot that Polaris has the best radar of all ships ;)
Of course once all Torps fired, no more anti cap ability ;) And those Torps won't be cheap.
So if you look for a versatile warship, Polaris have more advantage on paper and with the little we know about the Perseus. It is not just about the DPS.
Perseus, cap killer? Maybe, I think it should take hours to destroy a cap or a days to bring down a base... not 10 minutes. I think when destroying a cap or a base, base especially, 24 hour shifts should be taken to bring it down, depending on its loadout. Cap ship should take hours... if the attackers could make that happen... then they reap the rewards, proving their logistics and cunning. In todays world, everything happens in minutes... but the reality is it takes days of planning and precise execution.
Ok if that is the perseus i'm definately milking my wallet today lol.
Perseus aint a cap killer, it's a sub cap killer.
id say i's aimed at destroying hammerheads so the fighter or bombers can reach thire target.
wit.fwd
Lieutenant
atpbx
Space Marshal
No thats a terrible idea.
Your Carrack renders half your fleet irrelevant as it is. I would be binning off the Vulcan, Corsair, Cutlass, sabre and Apollo and using those funds to buy a Perseus, not melting the Carrack.
atpbx
Space Marshal
I more interested in what it has other than the two big turrets.
If its like, completely barebones on the inside like a Hammerhead and just has the two big turrets, no cargo space etc then....................... not really that bothered about it, I can kill sub capital ships with a Polaris and do other things with it as well.
If its like, completely barebones on the inside like a Hammerhead and just has the two big turrets, no cargo space etc then....................... not really that bothered about it, I can kill sub capital ships with a Polaris and do other things with it as well.
Carrack is shit for a solo player tbh, maybe 10 years from now when the AI is decent enough it might work
atpbx
Space Marshal
In which case the rest of his fleet is shit as well as it all requires more than one person to be effective.
So he is better off keeping the least shit ship overall and hoping some mates log on or AI turns out good than having lots of little shit ones that will still be shit even with real or AI crew.
Id argue that most ships on his list are far easier to solo than the spacewhale. Also Corsair > Carrack