[FrikgFeek]

Homing missiles are still useful for zone control or buying time though.

Trebs are just... broken stupid godmissiles even if you never fire them at fighters(it's honestly a waste unless you're in a missileboat). That is... until someone decides to change armor.tbl and make turrets harder to snipe with trebs 

[General Battuta]

A brute force fix would be to change the subsystem damage multiplier to bring the Treb in line/lower than the Harpoon.

[CT27]

My favorite fighter is the Erinyes.

[NGTM-1R]

Vesuvius, from INF and relatives. It always felt like the medium fighter that was lacking from the FS2 Terran lineup; an Apollo for the new age.

[Meneldil]

I once edited the fs2 main campaign to enable playing it with Dragon. That ship's the most fun you can have flying... at least until something ignores your shields and you loose a half of your hull and subsystems.

As for the normal choices, I really miss the Valkyire and the fact it had no real replacement in fs2. Perseus is a brilliant fighter but it always felt kind of bland, too "very good!" at everything I guess. Erinyes on the other hand may have other problems but blandness is not one of them, I love it.

[wardog300k]

GTF Erinyes-11
GTF Perseus-8
GTF Ares-3
GVF Serapis-2
GTF Hercules-2
GTF Pegasus-1
GTF Loki-1
GTF Valkrye-1
GTF Ulysses-1
GVF Thoth-1
GVF Seth-1

2 more for the Erinyes.
Another for the Perseus.

Vesuvius, from INF and relatives. It always felt like the medium fighter that was lacking from the FS2 Terran lineup; an Apollo for the new age.

I believe you'll be one of the Final Destination players then...Vesuvius is used a lot in there.

[FIZ]

Gonna go FS1 and bring up the Valkryie and no Athena love?  Meh, I guess not technically a fighter.

I always liked wingmen in Taurets with ample secondaries.  I kinda liked it to when I could get it, good primary spread, didn't feel as heavy as an Aries.  Had a helluva bite in The Procyon Insurgency with Vulcan cannons, I remember that fondly.  I had to look up if it could load Maxims though... damn.  I think I remember feeling like the only reason Maxims weren't compatible on this and the Perseus was balance.  (Seriously, on a Serapis but not either of those?)

But when it boils down to Erinyes vs. Perseus:

Younger me would have said Erinyes.  But having been on the receiving side of both ships in mods (My Brother, My Enemy... My god!) and cranking the difficulty, I'd have to say Perseus. 

She's gotten me home safe more than enough times for me to vote for her in fan poll.  Just a good all around ship.

[Phantom Hoover]

I like to think the Maxim compatibility of the Serapis was an 'oh ****' moment on the part of the manufacturers as it became steadily clear that they were in fact selling a device for killing friendly pilots in close engagements.

[FrikgFeek]

The Perseus might be a bit boring(Very good) in everything, not absolutely spectacular in anything either, but that just makes it feel very... Terran. It just gets the job done, no flair, but no questions asked either.

[FIZ]

Yeah, perhaps preferred fighter for most engagements is more appropriate, but as to no flair... well...

[0rph3u5]

PVF/GVF Seth

too bad the Tauret's primary compability is crap

[SmashMonkey]

Retail: Perseus - It's the Erinyes killer

Mods: Kentauroi - Love those reverse afterburners in a dogfight!

[Megawolf492]

Erinyes - I don't use speed as well in dogfights as I should.

[JSRNerdo]

Juuust so ya'll know the Erinyes doesn't really have the dps of 8 guns when you consider how linked primaries work, because you have to consider that weapons fire considerably (around half the rate of fire) slower when you link your primaries.

[Phantom Hoover]

Linked primaries fire at 2/3 of the speed of a single bank. If both banks have the same number of gunpoints the linked DPS is 1/3 more than that of a single bank.

[CT27]

I've started trying the Insane difficulty level. It's amazing the difference in opinion one is forced to develop in regards to slow, heavy fighters like the Herc. The scales have fallen from my eyes.

Ten years ago, playing Fs1 on my potato computer, I loved the Hercules--it was my beloved potato fighter. It was a fighter built to compensate for my terrible computer and horrendous lack of skill. My computer was so terrible, and the difficulty level so low, that I could destroy the fastest enemy fighters with Hornets. "lag-based" pursuit curve, indeed. My glorious potato herc could shrug off an infinite amount of abuse and destroy any enemy as I hurtled myself jerkily into the void of space at 5 frames per second.

Now, today, on my LORD DEATH apocalypse computer with difficulty cranked to insane, the old Herc has become nothing more than a medieval death trap; it is become a cruel mockery of my comforting, youthful memories; it has become a symbol of the passing of time, of unwanted change. Today, in the Herc I cannot avoid enemy fire. My shields are useless. The once-venerable hornet missile is useful only for killing freighters. Although the fall of the potato reflects my positive growth as a person (who can afford actual computers with fancy features like "memory" and "a graphics card"), I nonetheless shed a tear for my false memory of the glorious potato fighter.

**** you, Hercules. Worthless piece of ****.

What do you like nowadays?

[Mongoose]

The Perseus is probably the best all-around ship in FS2, but per the thread that inspired this one, I just can't say no to my beloved Valkyrie.  Those afterburner banks last for days, which means you can jet across an entire battlefield without even thinking about it.  Of course you're likely to get blown to shreds once something starts shooting at you, but eh, can't win 'em all.  FS2 was sorely lacking a true dedicated interceptor.

[Vrets]

What do you like nowadays?

I'm flying with a mouse n' keyboard setup, so I like the insanely maneuverable fighters that I once loathed.

Easiest fighters to fly are the Ulysses and Serapis.

I agree that the Perseus is the best all-rounder, but it is still not quite agile enough to be comfortably flown with only a mouse.

[Adderbane]

Gotta love the Eyrines.  Having a quad bank of maxims in addition to your main dogfight guns is great.  Bye-Bye cruisers.

[Gee1337]

What do you like nowadays?

I'm flying with a mouse n' keyboard setup, so I like the insanely maneuverable fighters that I once loathed.

Easiest fighters to fly are the Ulysses and Serapis.

I agree that the Perseus is the best all-rounder, but it is still not quite agile enough to be comfortably flown with only a mouse.

When we talk about which fighters we like, this is the real deciding factor in terms of what you can do with such a fighter... as in what kind of control setup are you using. For example, I have a modded X52 setup, so I find things like dodging missiles and evasive manouvers relatively easy, but aiming can be a bit sluggish. Using a mouse and keyboard I imagine that you would find aiming easier and more precise but when it comes to being evasive.. a bit trickier.

As a result, I don't like anything stupid manouverable as aiming becomes stupid hard and too fast for the lead indicator... but at the same time, I don't want anything sluggish when it turns or rolls as the crosshairs can't keep up with the lead indicator. It then becomes tough as to whether I would chose a Perseus or an Erinyes, but I think I would still be leaning towards the Erinyes, just because of the multi-role versatility of being able to take down a cruiser from range with quad Maxims and the power delivered in dogfights from quad kaysers.