I thought this is the worst ship I have...
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:13 pm
I had 5 ships in my hangaar, the Kestrel Type A and Type B, the Torus Type A, and the Zoltan Ship Type A and Type B. Looking over my ships, I thought the Zoltan Type B, known as the Noether is the worst ships I have. It had 2 Ion Weapons, a Pike Beam, which only deals damage when the enemy's shield is off, and 3 fragile Zoltan crewmember. On top of that, the Door System and the Shield System was on level 1, so it was absolutely useless. As I later realized, I had to spend 100 Scrap just to activate the first layer of the shield. Seriously, the only thing I found good is the air ventillation: you can get it from 3 direction, easy to control - until I started playing the game, and the solar flare set my Door system on fire. 
Plus if I get some enemies boarded I'm screwed. To sum up, I had no fate in this ship at all.
But I just kept playing. I got a few crewmembers, a human who I placed in the piloting to take more Zoltan advantage, an Engi who I used for repairing, and finally a Mantis against boarders. That Mantis also got an Anti-Personnel Drone as backup. I purchased Cloaking and raised my Engine to max plus the Shields to 3 layer. Last but not least I did some upgrade to my weapons, so I controlled 4 at a time. In the end the extra weapons that I used were S. Bomb and Breach I guess, so I thought a lot on my tactics. Luckily the Zoltan Shield kept out Mantis boarders until I got rid of their shield and Ionized their warp, and the rest of the ships did little damage to me. Luckily the game was generous, so I had a Defense Drone Mark I at the end too.
Flagship Phase 2 was the point where I usually died. Once I got the Kestrel through there, but had 1 HULL left and the flagship blocked the path to the repair point, and even as I tried to play defensively, I died. Now the Noether did a wonderful job, when I saw that the enemy only has crewmembers on the weapons left, I smelled victory. Kept the Cloaking for the big attack, and my health was is yellow when he exploded. Plus I think this was the first ship where I lost no crewmember over time, so I'm really satisfied with it. The score is not outstanding, but I want to share my happiness, so here's a picture from the Noether in my Stats.
Plus if I get some enemies boarded I'm screwed. To sum up, I had no fate in this ship at all.But I just kept playing. I got a few crewmembers, a human who I placed in the piloting to take more Zoltan advantage, an Engi who I used for repairing, and finally a Mantis against boarders. That Mantis also got an Anti-Personnel Drone as backup. I purchased Cloaking and raised my Engine to max plus the Shields to 3 layer. Last but not least I did some upgrade to my weapons, so I controlled 4 at a time. In the end the extra weapons that I used were S. Bomb and Breach I guess, so I thought a lot on my tactics. Luckily the Zoltan Shield kept out Mantis boarders until I got rid of their shield and Ionized their warp, and the rest of the ships did little damage to me. Luckily the game was generous, so I had a Defense Drone Mark I at the end too.
Flagship Phase 2 was the point where I usually died. Once I got the Kestrel through there, but had 1 HULL left and the flagship blocked the path to the repair point, and even as I tried to play defensively, I died. Now the Noether did a wonderful job, when I saw that the enemy only has crewmembers on the weapons left, I smelled victory. Kept the Cloaking for the big attack, and my health was is yellow when he exploded. Plus I think this was the first ship where I lost no crewmember over time, so I'm really satisfied with it. The score is not outstanding, but I want to share my happiness, so here's a picture from the Noether in my Stats.
