PvP Combat Ship Tier List (1.4):

This list is terrible.

Anaconda - God tier? Wtf? Your top speed is 260 m/s under perma boost. You are physically incapable of killing anything short of a type 9 before it boosts away. Maybe, maybe if this was feudal japan were people would commit sepukku rather than boost away and give you the bird this would be true.

Python - top tier. Are you fucking kidding me? FdL can just boost away and ignore you. FAS can just boost away and ignore you. A clipper can boost away and ignore you. A vulture can just boost away and ignore you for crying out loud.

Clipper is low tier and FdL is High tier? The clipper needs 1 good ram to end a fight versus the FdL. The FdL needs to work through ~15 shield cells before it can kill the clipper. The clipper is faster and turns better.

A better tier list: 1) Top tier: Clipper, FdL. Good at catching things, killing things, dictating the engagement.

2) FAS - would be higher, but it's shields are worse than the clipper, and it packs fewer shield cells than the clipper. It's like an FdL with gimped shields. Still good at catching and killing things, as well as dictating the engagement through speed and maneverabillity.

3) Vulture, Courier - unlike the python or the anaconda, these ships are fast enough to catch and kill non tier 1-2 targets, fast enough to disengage from non tier 1-2 targets.

4) Orca tier. Surprise, motherfucker.

5) Python. It can catch other pvp pythons and anacondas. Of these 2, it can only reliably kill other pythons. Everything else boosts away and gives you the bird.

6)Lowest Tier. Anaconda. Too slow to catch any other pvp ship. Literally any other remotely viable PvP ship will boost away and laugh at you for bringing the slowest combat ship in the game. You will be ignored by every other competent pilot until a wing of clippers (or a pod of orcas) interdicts you and rams you to death in 5 seconds. Good job.

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