okay, after spending a LONG time looking at the most recent ship list, here are the ships that are the highest end, or have the most unique charecteristics. In addition to a computer determining which are the "top end" you should probably have a say which are the top end as well.
Ships which can be considdered "top end" because of their battleship-like charecteristics (hull, armor, speed, agility, crew numbers, gun count and torp rack size are all taken into account):- Harbinger Carrier (in addition to 50 hull, as 145 crew AND 155 cargo)
- Harbinger Cruiser (biggest hull ship AND medium agility)
- Ironclad Carrier
- Ironclad Cruiser (50 hull ship, biggest armor value AND medium speed)
- Dreadnought Cruiser (biggest hull ship with medium speed AND agility by far)
- Harbinger Carrier Mk2 (one of two ships with 45 torps, second highest armor and biggest sail to hull ratio for such a big hull)
- Omega Cruiser (no other ship thats fast nor quick and has such a high crew, and this ship is fast AND quick)
- Flagship Cruiser (one of four ships with 250+ crew, biggest protection out of the four 250+ crew ships)
- Titan Cruiser (more crew than any other ship by far)
- Sword Cruiser (on of four ships with 250+ crew, one of only two ships that has 50 guns)
- Obliterator Carrier (the second biggest hull ship thats medium in speed and agility, more torps than any other 40+ hull ship thats medium in speed and agility, only 40+ hull ship that doesn't have high crew for non-boarders)
- Star Cruiser (one of four ships with 250+ crew, higher sail to hull ratio than the other 3 250+ crew ships)
- Admiral Cruiser (has 150 crew AND 150 cargo)
- Obliterator Cruiser (higher armor value than any other 40+ hull ship with medium speed and agility, highest cargo hold for a 40+ hull with with medium speed and agility)
- Carnifex Cruiser (no other ship has that's medium in speed nor agility has such a high crew, and this ship is medium in BOTH)
- Battle Frigate (medium in speed and agility, no other ship has 110 cargo hold with such a high crew)
- Rear Carrier (one of only two ship with 50 guns and only 50 gun ship with medium speed)
- Assault Turbine (second highest gun count and medium speed and agility, higher sail to hull ratio than any other 40+ gun ship)
Ships which can be considdered "top end" because of their cargo hold size (cargo hold, hull, armor, crew, speed and agility all are taken into account)- Fronteir Frighter (180 cargo hold AND 100 crew)
- Hyper Frighter (biggest cargo hold and fast/medium)
- Assault Skylift (biggest cargo hold for a battleship, 160 cargo as well as 120 crew, 34 hull, 35 guns etc)
- Xolar Freigter (biggest cargo hold ship that also has 70+ crew and medium in speed and agility)
- Speer Cutter (biggest cargo hold ship that's both fast AND quick, one of the highest sail to hull ratios)
- Steal Lazar (highest sail to hull ratio for a ship that has 120+ cargo and 70+ crew)
- Calcus Lifter (highest engine to hull ratio for a ship that has 120+ cargo and 80+ crew)
Ships which can be considdered "top end" because of their engine count/agility (engine count, crew and cargo are all taken into account)- Slayarz Cruiser (only ship with 60+ engines, one of two 29 hull ships that are quick, no other quick ship has 120 crew AND cargo)
- Longsail Lifter (second biggest engine count, one of two 29 hull ships that are quick, less crew than other 29 hull quick ship for non-combat-oriented captains)
- Steel Lazar (highest engine ship and biggest hull fast ship that has over 110 cargo hold)
ships which are considerred "top end" because of thier solar sail count/speed (sails, crew and cargo all are taken into effect) - Darksail Class (biggest sail count)
- Dragon Cruiser (biggest sail ship that isn't low-agile and highest sail/biggest hull fast ship with such high crew by far)
- Longsail Cutter (biggest sail ship/biggest hull fast ship with over 110 cargo hold)
ships which can be considdered "top end" because of thier engine to hull ratio and because of thier unique charecteristics for a fast and quick ship (speed, agility, engines, sails, hull, armor, torps and guns all taken into effect)- Dreadnought Carrier (its hull, speed, agility, crew, torps and guns combination make it unique)
- Assault Class (only 17 hull ship that has armor equal to hull)
- Tiberia Dark (only fast and quick ship that has 100 crew and 110+ cargo)
- Spike Vector (has second biggest engine to hull ratio and biggest engine to hull ratio ship with 16 hull and armor = to hull)
- Inquisition Cruiser (second biggest crew ship thats fast and quick and biggest gun ship thats fast and quick)
- Royal Dragon (biggest hull ship that has such a high sail to hull ratio, fast and quick)
- Tiberia Jammer (biggest hull ship thats fast and quick)
- Templar Cutter (highest engine to hull ratio AND highest sail to hull ratio)
Please considder manually making some of these ships only display at cadar/thulun so its more noticable that the two factions has the best ships
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