I use with Palavia aegis, my config are:
1st: slow, full shield in ship and lasers everywhere. If you know that you need more

(and with cpu that buy plt)
2nd: fast, 0 shields and full damage! (cpu buy rockets for hellstorm)
Server is important, because when i played on gb1(empty server with a ufe ship) i died a lot, every 3-4 minutes i had on me ~6-7 npc
I hope i've helped