Flagships?

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What is a flagship? Is it your first survey ship? Do you recommend using the first survey ship as a "stud" warship by having it pick up lots of combat enhancing anomalies? Is it better to create lots of survey ships and beef up their attack abilities or to just produce regular warships (i.e., Corvette, BattleAxe)?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
both for the frist phase of the game having a befed up survey ship is great cause you can park it near a weak AI home world and blast every one of there coloney ships. later in the game however they tend to be out gunned unless you were realy lucky with the bonues and you level it up alot.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
The Flagships are the alien's survery ships, you dont see them much but the Alterians gave me theirs once when we were friends and i was at war, came with pretty impressive stats :)

If you build too many survey ships they wont turn out all that beefy...
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Having two or three survey ships on a giant map can be useful though, so that you can pick up the empire-wide bonuses faster. But you definately want the vast majority of your fleet to be the generic dreadnoughts and such.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
It's not only the empire-wide bonuses, but with their range you'll be in a better position to find resources and tasty planets earlier. You also want to find likely enemies before they find you. ;) But for attack, stick with the conventionals. A Dreadnought, built on a world with good starship bonuses, doesn't need to hunt for ship junk to become powerful.

I did have a survey ship with truly bizarre stats once -- a single-digit attack, IIRC, low teens at most, but def > 70. "C'mon, hit me!"
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I play only gigantic maps now...and I use 1 survey ship in the beginning.

Later in the game when my military is ok for now, no colony ships are needed, and only constructors are being built...I DEFINITELY add another survey ship.

By then, I may have already found a Precursor Ranger or researched Phoenix Tech...but the bottom line is that the bonuses that AUTO-SURVEY can provide to your fleet and also to you economy and soldiers are wonderful. More than 1 ship makes all the difference. It's like a bonus each turn!

Besides...the maintenance is low, and auto-survey doesn't require any work!!!