Heavy Corvette vs. Advanced Patrol Combatant

Does any body else prefer the Heavy Corvette over the Advanced Patcom?
I know the Advanced Patcom has a much higher power to mass ratio and is a better combat ship…but the extra weapons and the layers of redundancy and the flexibility of the Heavy Corvette Make up for that.

This I have found to be the case because I haven’t failed a single mission (I have Elite 2 patch) since I got the Heavy Corvette (which I acquired extremely fast).

Hmm a tough one. The Heavy Corvette sure has the firepower but I'd have to say I prefer the Adv Patcom - it handles better imo.

I much prefer adv. patcom.

The Advanced Patcom is a better fighter...you last much longer in instant action in a Patcom that a Corvette...but...when exposed to the EoC universe in the Advanced Patcom...well...
if anything went wrong that I didn't expect (like an REM or a crash) then I found the relativly small patcom didn't usually survive...also I had to go Task Specific with my weapon loadouts. With the Heavy corvette I could have a little bit of everything and still get to focus on some systems. A jack of all trades, master of some.
As a result I barely changed the defult config.

I really like having wide arc PBC's on the T-Fighters. Little turrets that allways tracked targets no matter where they were 8D.

I also had a cutting beam...and a sniper cannon...and a very wide and versitile range of missles (esp. with a cargo space filled with them 8D).

The end result was that I never failed a mission after I got the Heavry corvette. Even with Elite mod on.