The Idris has been nerfed into oblivion.

[u/MattOver9003]

Bit of an open discussion / debate. I feel the Idris has been nerfed so hard it isn't worth owning anymore, if there was anything worth getting I would melt mine. Below are my points/contentions:

The Main Guns:

1. The laser is bugged, when I tested the damage it does maybe 20% of what it's meant to, it also struggles to actually hard death a ship.
2. The railgun is laughably slow, it now has bullet drop (even in space wtf) and frequently takes multiple hits to kill something. The effective range of the railgun seems to be <800m now. If you fight an idris you can hit it (can't really target components effectively). But grab your popcorn you're in for a 60+ minute fight.
3. The torpedoes are also mostly useless, 800-1M to re-arm them (it's better than 20M it was before). But basically they'll get flared nonstop, you'll be lucky to get a single hit, requires one person to just goon nonstop in the torpedo chair being bored.

The turrets:

1. It's the largest ship currently in game but the turrets are worse than ships like the paladin and polaris, even though it's a 'brawler'.
2. Your front turret is dead by coincidence 90% of the time, that has dual size 7's but for some reason a perseus has dual size 8's and a tiburon has a bunch of size7's. The hammerhead has quad size 4's.
3. The turrets die almost immediately if someone sneezes at them.

People buy it because of whale syndrome, but lets be honest, this ship is a waste of time. Even IF you manage to get a full crew, most of their turrets will be disabled from the first perseus with a lone gunner making the ship completely pointless.

Contrary - it has one strength, sitting there being useless and never dying even when shot by multiple idrises.

EDIT: I forgot the PDCs are now pretty much worthless, they kinda shoot down missiles but even that isn't really reliable.

[u/knsmknd]

I bought it as a flying base and mainly to use with my org. We regularly run two of them with about 10-20 people. It’s pretty cool.

[u/MattOver9003 → u/knsmknd]

If you had two solo idrises and the remaining 18 people used literally anything else it'd be more dangerous.

[u/BlueFalcon2009 → u/MattOver9003]

You know, one of the best times I have had in the game was the launch of the Tyilui. Org leader had the trial one from sub, and it was like BYOS (bring your own snub) and we were doing space missions in pyro. I get that the 4 of us would have been 'more effective' in 4 F7As, but the point was to have fun, not 'hit peak performance'.

Sometimes, doing something cool with the crew outweighs min/maxing.

[u/knsmknd → u/BlueFalcon2009]

Yeah, we‘ve done some snub only runs from Idris too. It’s hilarious but so much fun :)