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Salahsur wrote:

So I find myself at a place where I have to make a decision between pilot professions. My options are Imperial and Privateer.

I plan on finding a nice group of other pilots who don't want to waste a lot of time on the ground game, and hooking up with them. I don't really care about the multiplayer ships, so they don't enter into the question at all. And I can do factional combat just about whenever I want to either way. But I am having trouble deciding between Imperial and Privateer ships. So I'm hoping that experienced folks can assist me here...

My tendency is toward light and agile combatants - I hate not being able to maneuver well. Firepower is nice to have as well for those special situations, but in the end I'd rather have less firepower and more agility. And flexibility in roles is quite important as well. The Privateer ships seem nice for durability and flexibility, but they don't seem to have much speed and they're big targets. Plus I can change their color and texture. Whereas the Imperial ships seem to be small and agile, but have very little flexibility in their roles.

So what type of ships are better when lined up against Rebel fighters? Do the Privateers get ships with decent maneuverability and flexibility? Can I rig up a light or medium fighter with a lot of speed on the Privateer side of things? Are the Privateer specials useful at all?

I'd appreciate any assistance you could give me...

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privateer lacks. i must admit. there is no master fighter. rebs get the B-wing, very nice. but imperials get a TIE opressor, which is VERYVERYVERY nice. freelancer(i hate the word privateer, sounds like a superhero, makes me think of the rocketeer...) the TIE opressor has nice steering bonus like all TIEs, and is very good. freelancers dont get a cert at master sadly, or a 2 person ship, 2 person ships are hella-fun, i was in the back of an aggressor and had the time of my life. imps have the 3 levels of bomber squadron calls which are hella fun, but freelancers get 2 pirate calls, and whenever i called them they just shot me instead. :/. the freelancer ships dont handle too well i must admit, and the YT isnt too nice even though yopu said that MP ships werent an issue, the decimator is still my favourate ship out of the MP ones. so, the only thing i feel freelancer has going for it, is the helmet at master. i wanna get a green suit of comp and run about in it being the master chief, or a red suit being samus aran. so my advise, is go imperial. i plan on going privateer. mastering it, getting the helmet, dropping it, and going imperial.


i hope this has helped

it is like.... a motor cycle helmet. with a biiig shiney visor!

http://www.student.itn.liu.se/~marjo486/jtl/screenShot0382.jpg

through a tist of fate in beta, you would sometimes get the helmet for mastering rebel, along with the reb master jacket.