Editing Vandrayk's Starship Combat Guide (section)

=== Frigate (8,000 Blocks) ===
Frigates exist as the ideal fleet support ship, combining a good balance of tankiness, speed, damage, and versatility. These ships should mainly be flown with cruising, but some situations call for you to enter direct control (/dc). Frigates have access to phaser, tri turret, heavy turret, plasma, light turret, but you should focus on Heavy Turret, Phaser, and Tri Turret.

Play very aggressively against corvettes and smaller vessels, use your phaser to target either the bridge or a specific point on the ship, while also barraging the ship with volleys of Heavy Turret fire. Whenever the ship is out of render distance, switch to tri-turret fire.

Against the same size ship or larger vessels, you should play somewhat defensively. You want to cruise at diagonal angles, a lot of capital ship combat will take place outside of render distance, you want to lead the ship you’re fighting with heavy turrets to hit it at the furthest range possible. This is challenging even for some veteran players, so you can engage at a closer range to attempt to utilize phaser but know that this could backfire terribly. Your mindset should be to preserve your shields and prevent hull damage for as long as possible while simultaneously winning the fight. Against battlecruisers, you want to stay as CLOSE to maximum heavy turret range as possible while still dealing damage.

An Optimal Frigate is subjective, but by standard they need: 12 shields, (one of these is an enhanced shield, place this one on your bridge), ample heavy turrets and tri turrets on top/bottom of the ship, and a phaser in every cardinal direction.

These ships are countered by attack destroyers (10k), indirectly countered by destroyers (12k), indirectly countered by cruisers (16k), and hard countered by battlecruisers (20k)