Alliance vs. Federation Frames

Perseus · Post by **Perseus** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:18 pm

Hi everyone. Just started playing the game not too long ago, and am really enjoying it. I've reached a point where I'm making more than enough money to trade in my talon for a new ship. I was thinking something like a Phoenix, as I don't want to compromise agility too much.

Anyway, I'm a bit confused when it comes to Alliance and Federation frames. Every Federation frame has greater armor, agility, assembly, and capacity than its equal-cost Alliance counterpart. Where's the tradeoff? I had assumed both sets of frames would reflect two different design philosophies, and would have different strengths and weaknesses, however it appears as though Alliance frames are worse in every way. What am I missing?

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:08 pm

Hi Persues, welcome to the game and forum. See you out there sometime...

Perseus · Post by **Perseus** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:59 pm

I see, I guess that makes sense. I haven't really looked at the military ships yet. Thanks for the response. I hope to log on to multiplayer eventually once I get better.

DX101 · Post by **DX101** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:29 am

From post: 99875, Topic: tid=7156, author=Eclipse wrote:The Federation focused their ship building on civilian frames, the Alliance has been focusing on military designs. As a result the newer Federation frames take advantage of newer alloys, making them stronger while being more agile then Alliance counterparts.

At least that's my interpretation of the stats.

I seem to recall a Federation-Alliance war in which the Feds lost. It would make sense that they would not be allowed to make military ships and would then work on making their civilian frames better then the Alliances for multirole purposes.

Yeah, the Fed.-Alliance War was from SW1-4 and Arvoch...

Edit: in case u didn't read the quote, u play as an alliance fighter pilot, so basically, the Alliance win's....

[Edited on 1-15-2011 by DX101]

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:18 am

Hi Perseus, MP is a great place to learn about the Sim and pilots are helpful. Remula One is the Main and Best server. Welcome to the forum and the Sim.

darkova · Post by **darkova** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:49 pm

the only thing the alliance's civ frames are superior at seems to be top speed

Nubarus · Post by **Nubarus** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:20 pm

From post: 103715, Topic: tid=7156, author=darkova wrote:the only thing the alliance's civ frames are superior at seems to be top speed

Wow, this has little value with the IDS multiplier option.