Midline ships tend to be tan in color and average speed, shields, armor & hull. They often can't win individual fights, but can decide when and where to engage the enemy. High Tech is also often nimble, able to flank enemy to attack weak points. This allows them to perform hit & run attacks, damaging the enemy across multiple attacks, until the enemy overload. High Tech ships are generally faster than their opponents, being able to dictate the engagement and have superior flux dissipation to allow them to keep re-engaging. Use the Phase Skimmer ship system (F) to maintain range or back off to vent. The Wolf is a stereotypical High Tech ship and a Pulse Laser has reasonable range. Always be mindful that you will need to keep shields up and back off to a safe distance to vent. Try to kite the opponent with superior speed & long range weapons. High Tech ships tend to have a bluish hue, high speed, mostly energy weapons, low armor & hull and above average to great shields The enemy decide whether to fight you but you decide who wins that battle. Low Tech also has excellent access to ballistic weapons, particularly ballistic kinetic, which tends to be flux efficient. They do have a significant advantage dictating whether the enemy must back off due to a flux advantage from being able to drop shields & armour tank. Low Tech style ships are generally too slow to dictate whether they are engaged or not. Lashers & Machine Guns are commonly available and Safety Overrides is known from the start. Stay very close to the opponent, use its Accelerated Ammo Feeder ship system with (F) to increase firepower dramatically.

A common early build is Safety Overrides with Light Machine Gun, although very short range. The Lasher is a stereotypical Low Tech ship. Try to stay engaged in combat, dropping shields when flux is high but continuing to fight. Low Tech ships are able to get away with dropping shields mid-combat or even venting while in combat.

Low Tech ships tend to have a redish hue, high armor & hull, mostly ballistic weapons, slow and have average to bad shields Ships using Safety Overrides can be distinguished in combat by their distinctively different engine colors, which take on a harsh white glow. The massive boost to flux dissipation can enable High Tech ships to cycle a brutal rate of damage. The massive speed boost can enable Low Tech ships to catch up to practically everything. Safety Overrides needs special attention as it can drastically alter a ship from the norms of its tech. A Ship's tech being low tech or high tech does not affect whatever or not the ships themselves are good or not. They all use the same mechanics but differences in stats or specific ship features incentivize them to be used in different ways. Starsector features different ship techs that generally operate fairly differently from each other. However you could use some of those caps instead for hullmods to give a boost to your ships stats. However this is reversed for phase ships where you should always max out your caps first then your vents. A general rule is to max out vent first then cap.

Your weapon flux generally shouldn't go beyond double your ship's flux dissipation.ДЄfter putting guns on your ship, you will usually have leftover OP for cap and vent. Make sure your guns don't cost too much in flux, so your ship can have room to use their shields to take hits without the weapons using up all their flux. Note that point defense weapons doesn't need this as much. Make sure your guns range are either the same range or have a small gap, it's not a good idea to have a ship who's main guns has long range but the rest of their guns are very short range, you generally want your guns to have a small as possible range gap. Here are some tips it comes to making your own fits: You should eventually learn to fit ships on your own and not rely on autofitting every ship. However it should be noted that autofit makes some very questionable decisions when it comes to certain ships. Once you get a feel for it try modifying. Often when you get ships they come with no weapons and without some experience, setting them up yourself does not end well so a good idea is to press the autofit button on the refit screen, pick a style and try that. Other notes Autofit/Fitting Together Ships

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