Flagship

From Fleets Game Guide

Flagships are massive multi-purpose ships with many different abilities available to them. Each fleet can have one flagship, which provides many benefits to that fleet. The maximum number of flagships starts at 1 and can be increased by researching Fleet Logistics.

Persistent Flagships

You can create multiple flagships in a zone. Persistent Flagships is a feature where you may save up to 5 flagships in your staging area that can be used across many different zones.

Abilities

All flagships have activated abilities that they can use in a zone. These abilities generally consume energy when used, and provide experience to the flagship that used them, in addition to their other benefits.

flagship commands box

Survey

Surveying 'Found Item'

Flagships can survey systems that they are in and next to. Through surveying, flagships are able to fully explore systems under their control. Each time a flagships surveys a system, it has a chance of discovering items or finding more resources in the system. Items found can be crafted into weapons, armor, and other equipment that increases the capabilities of a flagship. Discovering more resources permanently increases the raw material density in that system and allows a player to collect more resources each tick.

10 Energy
250 Experience

To survey, select the 'survey' button in the bottom right commands box. Then select the hes you want to survey. The hex should halo white when you run your cursor over it to select it.

Scan

To scan a hex that is within visible range your Flagship must first have enough energy. Then you can select the scan icon in the bottom right command box. This will bring up a pop up menu on the right of your screen. Then select the hex you wish to scan. This should develop a report in your notifications.

You can tell how accurate your report is by checking the percentage accuracy in each report. To ensure your scans are 100% accurate you will need to upgrade your Flagship's engineering upgrade.

10 Energy
100 Experience

For more information visit the page on visibility and scanning.

Items

Some Items can be equipped to flagships. You can send and receive items as gifts, store items for later, and craft smaller components to create products, like weapons. You gain Items by surveying with your flagships, you can also buy items from your Market. Check out the Crafting manager to view all of your items and do with them what you please!

Experience

Flagships can be fitted out with four different types of upgrades. upgrade points are gained through combat, surveying or scanning and upon doing these tasks experience is gained, more experience is brought in efficiently by having a flagship attached to a fleet participating in combat and destroying other players ship(s)/fleet in that combat, this is the best way to gain more experience to further enhance your flagship.

Upgrades & Flagship Types

Each Flagship can be individually upgraded once it has finished construction in each of these 4 categories. It is to the advantage of the Flagship to be upgraded in every category. You will notice upgrades is how your Flagship levels up and becomes more powerful. You can gain the ability to upgrade more by gaining experience and surveying.

1. Command Upgrades Energy

2. Tactics Upgrades Initiative

3. Engineering Upgrades Hit Points

4. The 4th category changes for each ship type.

Scout Carrier

Primary Role: Vision (scanning and long-range detection)
Secondary Role: Speed (faster than most capital ships)

Support Carrier

Primary Role: Logistics (resource gathering)
Secondary Role: Research (research rate)
Special Ability: Constructor (can build outposts)

Command Cruiser

Primary Role: Fleet Defense (fleet HP)
Secondary Role: Firepower (weapon damage, point defense)

Supercarrier

Primary Role: Production
Secondary Role: Support (research rate, salvage)
Special Ability: Mobile Shipyard (can build tier 1 non-flag ships at 100 production rate)

Dreadnought

Primary Role: Firepower (raw damage)
Secondary Role: Fleet Offense (fleet weapons damage)
Special Ability: Firestorm (Each individual ship in the fleet has a 5% chance to fire twice)

Statistics

Name				Size	Speed	Hit Points	Armor	Maneuver	Net Worth	Tier
Command Cruiser	7500	3750	1500	7	2	5000	70	30	1500	2
Dreadnought	12500	6250	2500	8	2	6000	80	20	2500	3
Scout Carrier	5000	2500	1000	7	2	2500	60	40	1000	1
Supercarrier	10000	5000	2500	8	2	5000	70	20	2500	3
Support Carrier	7500	3750	1500	7	2	4000	70	30	1500	2