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[@MrGuigto]

My baby Hauler got me so close to colonia until i burnt it on a neutron star with no rebuy. Early Elite days.... Good memories

[@AstrusEminus]

I used to have a PvP Orca, loved that thing. “**Pling** Ramming speed achieved, thank you for choosing banana express and please brace for impact.”

[@diceman199]

They do shift quite nicely :-)

[@acidjunkies]

Orca and Clipper are for ramming indeed ^^

[@Reddotzebra]

@@acidjunkies And the federal piggies. When I was pirate farming in my T-10 the two biggest threats I ran into were the plasma Pythons and ramming piggies.

[@renkol123]

Orca's name is Beep Beep for this exact reason

[@GhostGiraffe]

The Orca is the only space ship in the game.

[@CrimsonGamer99]

You misspelled "Adder"

[@willdavis3802]

@@CrimsonGamer99 Look at his videos.

[@CrimsonGamer99]

@@willdavis3802 Touche. But look at mine.

[@willdavis3802]

@@CrimsonGamer99 Oh, I used to, but Im out of dramamine at the moment.

[@ssjsjb]

After the post all I could hear was Maaaaaaaaars!

[@GenericInternetter]

People confuse exploration with long-distance travel. If you want to get from A to Z, then you want higher jump range. If you want to explore, meaning honk+scan interesting things, then low jump range is fine because there’s no reason to skip over nearby systems... you’re there to _explore_ them.

[@willdavis3802]

The galactic arms, among other places, Need a 40+ jump range to avoid being stranded if you Neutron jump into them.

[@Redeadhunter]

You can still tick "economical routes" on your galaxy map regardless of your jump range, which you want to be higher so you can get to large pockets of unexplored territory quickly as possible.

[@aidantanny7230]

I never really looked at it that way- thanks for making me realize that :o

[@jamesdinius7769]

No you do need range. 1, to get away from the bubble quickly 2, to explore the sparse regions such as the void and getting through dwarf star clusters. and 3, fuel. You might not always use max range jumps, but you do want them.

[@dRiifTeR667]

I used to use the Orca as a PvP ship back before engineers came out, had three plasma accelerators as the weapons. I would use hit and run attacks on my opponent (literally hitting them with the ship after Pelting them with the PAs on approach then running away and repeating). I call it the Smash n Crash style.

[@TehGM]

The moment you put Vulture in this list, I understood what you meant by "blur line between good and bad". Cause it's a really good ship. Like REALLY good. Just happens to have no use beyond combat.

[@johnfloyd7926]

Back when Thargoids were damaging stations in the bubble... the T7 made a pretty good SAR ship. Cheaper to outfit than a Python and lower rebuy. Lots of room for heat sinks. It makes a great entry-level painite miner before you step up to the T9 or higher ships.

[@Rin8Kin]

/\ this.

[@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it]

I love my Type-7. It can make 10,000,000 credits with a single silver run and with seeker missile turrets and two fixed hard points it does make a nice missile barge but it is amazing how easy it is to avoid interdiction with this thing. My Type-9 however...yeah, I get worried every time I make a cargo run. I got absolutely destroyed on it's maiden flight and I almost got destroyed by a SINGLE eagle. The most embarrassing moment in my entire EVE experience.

[@MadMac5]

I keep an Orca around that I painted yellow and called "The Magic School Bus." Sure, lots of ships can do what it does better (except carry luxury cabins), but I just find it the most fun of the Large ships to fly and when other players see me coming it makes them smile if they grew up with the books or show.

[@bverkist]

The copilot seat in the vulture is just for the cameraman.

[@TheYamiks]

also quality shitposting

[@SpoonLoeffel]

I use the T9 for racing, as that oversized flying pancake, that handles like a drunk cow on ice, is obviously the best choice for racing from Sol to SagA*. And I swear i haven't gone space crazy yet, at least that's what the voices in my head keep telling me.

[@Kyzrath]

I love my Orca for combat. It's the equivalent of armouring up a station wagon, fitting railguns on it and tossing a few plasma guns on the passenger doors, then fitting a nice ramming bar on the front end. Slide around and tackle your way to victory with ballistic assistance! Quick edit: Yes, I mean this for PvP, not for PvE. Railguns in PvE are a bad, bad, bad idea.

[@Reddotzebra]

@GiRayne I used a pair of class 1 rails on my T-10 as a nice little welcome to every pirate lining up to take shots at my canopy.

[@psycopt8770]

I use the orca for xeno hunting and it is just awesome. 600+ boost speed with good maneuverability, great hardpoint placement and 5k+ hull just makes it an awesome xeno hunting ship, even if the player, like me, isn't a great pilot.

[@GenericInternetter]

Railguns are _excellent_ for PvE if you know how to combine weapons properly.

[@butteredbiscuits1]

hauler is called a hauler because it can haul ass

[@Paul_The_Spaceman]

A pirate had a go at me in mine, i laughed at him and left.

[@exodore2000]

I use to mine in my hauler but that and getting around were all I really did with it.

[@Yuushiboy]

I might not play Elite Dangerous any more but I cant stop watching your videos. I´m not interested in information about Elite but your videos just cracks me up every time! XD

[@slypask9185]

I'm like that about some games too. Don't really want to play it, but watching tons and tons of videos about it =D

[@Yuushiboy]

@@slypask9185 oh yes :)

[@GenericInternetter]

The type-7 is actually the best laser miner at that price range if you prefer longer, slower mining runs. But mining is about speed, not quantity, so... yeah it’s just a giant cargo hold with a cockpit.

[@57thStIncident]

Sadly thanks to economic nerfs nobody needs to stay at that price range for very long anymore.

[@Nick-yj8nj]

Only small lasers for mining, bot it has very good heat dissipation and very fast fuel scooop, good for painite mining and for trade loops.

[@furu_2274]

Yes and indeed do use Type 7 for unintended gameplay, which would be exploration. Makes me feel like a bus driver for those intercity bus services in big countries. That huge block while everyone cruises in their cars.

[@Halbostfriese]

I always thought the Hauler has a perfect name. It has great jump range, and can be one of the fastest ships in the game with proper engineering. That ship hauls ass pretty damn good!

[@markos.9805]

Type 7 is great for storing engineered modules to avoid the 120 module limit. It's a flying storage / locker.

[@matveichx9162]

Orca is a capable Opal core mining tool thanks to speed and not that bad cargo capacity Of course if you do not own a clipper already

[@Neutronic01]

Ah yes the ships that we started with, never to return.

[@kentanakamura89]

You see Dolphins?Almost every station has Orca's and Dolphins. SO you think "OH Orca's must be better right..... RIGHT!?" that's how you "Start" with an Orca at least....

[@kentanakamura89]

@GiRayne that's the point. When you look it up online and you see that orca is a good for passenger running you think it's great what else can I do with it? Then the sudden realization kicks in that passenger running is all it's good for. Hell I did worse and got a beluga and fuck me is that thing huge

[@Pheonixco]

@GiRayne I used a T9 until I got a cutter. Not likely to go back to a T9 for any reason.

[@kaungsi5613]

Newbie here. I used Hauler, lightened it up and got myself a 30 jump range ship for RTR. ( That's what the guide told me soo ... )

[@jamesngotts]

I'm currently about 56,000 light years from the bubble in an exploration fit FAS

[@kempo79]

T-7 is the most underrated ship in the game. With it's great jump range and cargo space it's good at multiple tasks like surface mining (for subsurface and deep core mining you want clipper anyway), passenger missions and trade but where this ship really shines is collecting materials and cargo from USS's, damaged stations etc. And it's cheap so you can afford having a whole fleet of them, specialising in every given task.

[@kangaroo4024]

Actually really enjoyed using Orca for Exploration. it handles really well, stays cool, huge jump range and room for all the goodies.

[@WereScrib]

Orca's absolutely one of the best Exploration ships now, and her gank potential grew with freed up slots. I use mine as a general multipurpose ship. Sure she's not GOOD at combat in PVE. But RAM AND FRAG works ok to assassinate things at least. Also apparently Orcas are one of the easiest to use anti-thargoid ships which is just weird. Due to easy handling/great speed and high sturdiness.

[@_Shinasu]

I do have fond memories of my hauler, was my 1st exploration ship and really opened up the game from starting out

[@sethhancock40]

I'm really enjoying this series Yamiks, and I can't wait to see where you placed the rest of the ships. Pretty sure I already know where you're going to put Python and Conda (two of the best and most versatile ships in the game), and same with Cobra 3, but I'm eager to see if you subvert my expections! (Though I'm sure you won't, I've seen enough of your videos to be pretty certain of my predictions :P )

[@Anakin5301]

I thought Type 9 was the absolute best explorer in the galaxy!!! I’ve made it to Colonia with it! Yeah it’s crap

[@benjaminbierley2074]

Explorers, we're that special type that will fly "anything" to Colonia

[@Cooldude-ko7ps]

Anakin5301 I thought you were better at ships Ani lol

[@N7Tigger]

Before they made it very, very easy to have about 100 million credits an hour after you start the game I would say the Hauler should have always been your first ship purchase. Everything D rated except for the A rated FSD and you have 20t of cargo with a fully laden jump range of 16ly for 250k including the ship. Free Sidewinder to Hauler was the biggest quality of life improvement I have had since I started playing the game.

[@apocalypticpioneers2116]

Hey hey hey, Hauler isn't "1-use". I used my hauler to make my first million with it outfitted for exploration. Edit: Hauler was the first ship I bought after Sidewinder, went out to Quince (I knew about the gold rush and just wanted to see the station) and came back. Sold my data and got ~1 million.

[@willdavis3802]

That's its one use. Jump range.

[@greggb8533]

I did too

[@oisnowy5368]

Yup! Got a Hauler for taxi too. Put in enhanced thrusters. The Orca has made the most money for me. Nice to get paid over ten million for a bit of sight-seeing. Great speed as well.

[@cskrisz0706]

Lets rename Hauler to Hopper! Agree!

[@brucejohnson1264]

I use an Orca for core mining. Works great. It has a great combination of speed, maneuverability, and cargo space for that purpose.

[@tobyb8511]

When you published this, it mostly made sense ... but ... when I started a new Commander I decided to only by Good or better ships ... but I bought a Type 9 as a Painite Miner and it's really good at it, 646 tons of the stuff it can mine in one session has earned me Cr 500M a time, and it can fly without refueling or wasting cargo space on a scoop to high-value sales minimising pirate risks ... and then for "fun" I joined in the recent Xmas Community Goal to Reorte and couldn't be bothered to refit ... so bought another T9, a 756-ton cargo lugger and shifted 25,000 tons of turkeys in (Top 10% bonus) ... it paid for itself and also earning enough to buy a Cutter. It's not really "Good" ... but as an HGV for shifting massive loads, or burning rocks to collect massive loads ... it's better than "1-USE"? ( maybe for the Elite players who also play Euro Truck Simulator?). Proper ED high value play ... a top grinding machine!

[@Mecryte]

With recent updates, I was able to take my little hauler deep space exploring. Alleviated of the need for ADV, i can squeeze in everything that I need with room to spare. Assuming that i won't need to fight, i can jump 34 LY and have a 3A fuel scoop with 12 T of fuel

[@kmc2065]

Nice video Yamiks

[@HypnoticChronic1]

Hey now Yamiks a pirate Orca is kinda amusing and just like the Spanish Inquisition... nobody ever expects it.

[@Reginaldesq]

Most passenger ship also have plenty of comfy cushions on board too.

[@mizukiuke7447]

The way he called the hauler “ putrid shit” I damn near choked on my food laughing 😂

[@weezusQL]

Honestly I always saw the Hauler as the space equivalent of a Fedex box while the Type 6/7 were more like space big rigs.

[@P_RK_NY8]

I use the T9 every day.

[@Nick-yj8nj]

Me to!

[@RandomPantsFoto]

Believe it or not, I actually used my Type 7 for exploration, laser mining, and passenger hauling. I've only been playing the game for two months, so it was (and still is) my only large ship. I'm well into the engineer/material grind, and kitted out for mining, it's got a 47 LY jump range (well, empty, that is). Hooray engineering. With engineered thrusters, it's also a lot more nimble than anyone expects; always makes me happy when I'm ferrying a full cargo of LTDs from Kirre's icebox and I manage to evade the two or three interdictions that happen on my way to a sell point! After getting blown up a couple times while mining (random secondary pirate scans well into the mining session), it was suggested I get a Krait MkII for mining. Big guns up top, subsurface mining missile and abrasion blaster down below. Now I don't panic when a second wave of pirates show up! Half the jump range of the Type 7, though.

[@bobwalsh3751]

With full thruster and powerplant engineering, the Hauler (unladen) is one of the fastest ships in the game.

[@delta4phoenix4]

Hmm where is that gas giant in the opening shot?

[@bobwalsh3751]

I agree that the Hauler is an absolute bolt bucket, but it's not pretending to be ANYTHING else.

[@joshuamorgan7341]

My Type 9 is literally called Big Bertha, and I use it for Cargo runs. I love that ship.

[@ironman21389]

Loved the Vulture. So many combat missions killing pirates till I could afford my Conda. Good times being able to fly around your opponent and hitting them with rail guns then zip away.

[@CancerArpegius]

I'm a fletchette gunner main on a type 10 that is basically just a floating platform for gunners to shoot off

[@Banzai51]

The Type 9 was great for Space Trucking Trit from large pads to Fleet Carriers until the trading/mining nerf and the host of unintended consequences. Made me quite a lot of credits.

[@bboorraass]

As usual Yamiks, your contents are pure gold, these are one of the best ships review. Keep up the good works my lord.

[@cobrajr._bomsf3493]

I do in fact have an engineered orca for combat and thargoid hunting, and can also prove it.

[@Reddotzebra]

As previously mentioned: I had every opportunity to buy a T-9 for mining and bought (And flew, until I'd amassed enough cash to buy a Cutter *and* the pirate-bits to strap onto its hull and... Other parts, to make it go faster, and have more dakka!) a T-10 mining turret boat abomination. And between mining runs I used it to farm pirates. Because it is a Q-ship, it is just a freighter with huge freaking guns strapped to it, but that's what makes using it so much fun! XD You can just let your copilot fly the ship while you go out in a fighter and murder pirates by the score.

[@dist0rt3dhum0r]

You may get a kick out of this. I was out mining the other day and saw some AI miners come up in my contacts. Slowly but surely they made their way past me. Was a Krait MKII mining with a Vulture escort. Mkay. By AI standards I guess that makes sense. Krait MK II can be an alright miner and Vulture is a pretty decent little fighter. However then I got curious and decided to look through their subtargets. Thats where things got interesting. The Krait MKII was surface mining and didnt have any limpets and was instead manual scooping every shard that it broke off with its single mining laser, and the vulture, for whatever reason, actually had a refinery in it. The poor Vulture barely has enough energy to shoot its own weapons let alone run a refinery. Best I could work out was that was the Krait pilots way of "paying" for his escort's services, but even that's a bit of a stretch honestly.

[@sannyfolkesson2226]

first experience with type 9, exiting a space station in sidewinder and see it emerging true the fog of the gate and almost crash into.

[@trickydicky2594]

Vulture is amazing at fighting because it can strike fast and really effectively for a small ship, I've even taken out an (npc) anaconda in one. But yeah, after you get better ships there's no real reason to use it.

[@DragoCubX]

It also kinda pampers new players. Had several friends get one asap, and once they could upgrade to a bigger ship, it became a huge disaster as they needed WEEKS to adjust to anything with lower maneuvrability :'D

[@Shenron67]

I was about to complain for Orca and fight. I've fitted one, and it was fun to use in combat. Not efficient, but we manage to take down an Assault Ship even though we didn't have any ammo left. Just ram the thing.

[@ceiling_cat]

Oh you say you was ramming an Assault ship with Orca? Are you sure it was a fight, not RP?

[@TheYamiks]

was that a player.. if not ..well then sorry that's not really a good representative

[@Shenron67]

@@ceiling_cat Well, I can admit it was hard.

[@Shenron67]

@@TheYamiks Honestly I can't remember, so probably not.It was just a stupid idea we had on the moment with a friend.

[@WereScrib]

@@Shenron67 TBH The Orca ramming with frag cannons works even in PVE. I was smashing Federal corvettes in conflict zones and frag cannoning them. It wasn't exactly the best but it worked, took apart a couple without too much difficulty. Really more of a ganking tactic in pvp though. ..And like. Not even very engineered. It's just stupidly easy to turn the Orca into a ballistic missile slamming into something at 530 or so with 4-5k armor. And its ram damage is still the highest (barely, mind you) it's a weird monster.

[@Deathborn2048]

Use for Orca: Buckyball racing! \o/

[@Redeadhunter]

The Vulture's copilot seat may be absolutely pointless and the fact that it's there at all is fucking hilarious, but at least it's innocuous and doesn't fuck around with the main pilot seat UNLIKE FUCKING FER DE LANCE.

[@thesteepman7821]

I agree like why did Yamiks put vulture he didn't even give a reason sure the power and heat is bad but I think vulture should easily be good or even god tier like the vulture is so damn good for its class and price and its rly fun to fly

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

The type 9 has at least a 40Ly range. That's pretty damn good. Mine hauls at 30LY with nearly 650 tons of cargo. That's second only to the cutter!

[@C-S-J]

The Hauler is the cheapest ship in the game that can get from Diaguandri to HIP 12099 in two jumps (needs engineering and a guardian FSD booster though). Ray Gateway in Diaguandri is the closest encoded materials trader to Jameson's crash site in HIP 12099, so I have a Hauler I leave at Ray Gateway and pick it up when I am going to do the Jameson crash site encoded data runs. The extremely cheap rebuy (less than 100k, even with a guardian FSD booster) makes it a cheap and efficient encoded data farmer. Fly from Ray Gateway to Jameson's crash site, fill up on the T4-5 encoded data materials that you can get there, crash ship and rebuy at Ray Gateway and exchange the mats. Rinse and repeat until you've had enough, then just hop back over to your normal ship and say goodbye to the Hauler until you need to hit up Jameson's wreck again. The next cheapest ship that can do it in two jumps is the Diamondback Explorer, which literally costs 3.5x to purchase/outfit and also has 3.5x the rebuy cost. The Hauler does take more of an initial time investment to outfit though, if you don't already have the Guardian FSD Booster unlocked. The FSD requires G5 Range/Deep Charge to get the range you need. It's gotta be D rated on everything except the FSD and you have to forgo shields for it, but at least you can add a docking computer and supercruise assist if you want them since they're weightless. That gives it just barely enough range to make the first hop from Diaguandri to HIP 12099 (39 Arietis 47.08x Ly required, you'll have 47.1x Ly range)

[@ThePapino134]

the orca is a great ramming ship. i can take on a wing of 4 all alone and they never shoot at me. if i dont shoot them they dont shoot at me

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

I use the Type 7 as a station rescue vessel.

[@tobyb8511]

The Hauler is almost OK ... it's a really useful One-use-Plus ... I started a new Commander recently to see how the game looks like now (I started my first in the Beta) ... I graduated from a Sidewinder into a Hauler and headed out into the black after running enough missions and SRV-salvaging for a DSS ... came back to afford a Class A FSD and fuel scoop ... went out again in the high-class stars scanning metallics and finding Water and Earth-likes on my own (not RtR) until came back again for a DBX and bought-in to the non-combat engineering ... and just recently when I got my Elite Explorer (done no combat at all, but traded well into Broker) ... and once again I bought Haulers to go and collect the Asp Explorer and Python trader/mission-runners I'd acquired to set up a home fleet at Jameson's Memorial ... as taxi's go, it's a pretty good entry-level explorer as well ...

[@Wurtle38]

to bad the orca and clipper aren't medium sized ships

[@felixh2786]

Yeah, that's really their main downside.

[@gkcl1]

I set up my T7 as a rescue ship, then a week later the Thargoids pulled out of the bubble, so she is just sitting, waiting for the 'Goids to come back, otherwise, I must agree with this video, I have an exploration Hauler, and I had my T9 fitted for trading, then I was introduced to Deep Core Mining, so she got re-purposed, until I got my Python, now she is a trader again

[@bobwalsh3751]

I currently fly a Hauler. Her name's Little Clanker, for obvious reasons.

[@JCFRESHNO559]

Trading in the vulture with turrets good 1 yamiks

[@nazgool9216]

Well now that u put it that way i plan on getting good at using the space dildo orca as a combat ship lmfao or a type 7 for combat but that would be for a time only when i feel like having some fun

[@louislamp]

Was this whole lineup for this video made by Lakon? ^^

[@simonburling3762]

Type 9 is ok for mining as well as trading. Also you forgot about passenger missions for the passenger ships.

[@johns1307]

Forgot to mention the Hauler is ridiculously cheap, so it's actually usable as a high-risk smuggler, since getting blown tf up won't send you to the salt mines to foot the bill. Also more internal slots on the Type-9 just means more Cell Banks ;) Oh and a class 8 Optional means you get the biggest and most expensive shield (seriously, its over 2 times the cost of the ship alone). If you ignore power consumption, Type-9 can technically get 10k shield strength and still have a 2 bay fighter hanger. I think if you email Frontier they'll even let you put a kiddie pool instead of the 3rd cockpit seat, with how slow it turns you won't have to worry about accidental splashing!

[@Shnyrik11]

I know some people using Type-9 for exploration. And though Type-9 is kind of not "mine" ship, I understand them. It is not as bad at this role as it may seem, because it actually has one of best cockpit views in the game, competing with Asp. And of course it has lots, lots of internals. The only serious disadvantage is the jump range, for you can't squeeze more than 48lys no matter how hard you try. Still, there are two interesting things about this disadvantage. First, just like with other heavy ships (i.e. Cutter) you can afford taking some heavy staff with you (hangars for many buggies, strong shields and so on) without loosing much range. Well, because the thing is awfully heavy already and additional 20-30-40 tons won't make much difference :) Second, hey, 48lys is still way more than Anaconda used to have before all that engineering and guardian staff %)

[@zacksstuff]

My Hauler is named Odyssey. Because it's basically a space minivan.

[@neogoterra]

well calling the hauler that name might be in reference to the idea of being in for the long haul?

[@Centrophy]

Type 9 was my current ship last I played (pre-RNGneers) because like you said for cargo runs. Being interdicted in that thing always sucked. I suppose that's one of the reasons why I stopped playing. Flying that thing and staring at loading screens was boring as hell.

[@InHooman]

Type-7 is good for saving passengers from stations tho

[@FakeJeep]

If you're going with that argument... Orca is better.... or T9 lol

[@SaruwatariMasahiro]

honestly any ship with good cargo is good, you just need two heatsinks and it's easy.

[@brianlam5847]

Hey, the Orca is the best Combat ship, along with Exploration ship. Just ram your way through other ships while unloading packhounds.

[@NeroCM]

If they were to add SLF that can mine, I wonder if the type-9 will suddenly become the staple miner. As far as I know, the reason it's not used for mining is that it's too big to comfortably move around an asteroid field.

[@Reddotzebra]

This needs to be a thing! SLF with MINING LASERS! Why doesn't this exist yet?

[@NeroCM]

@@Reddotzebra ... Because it's the Fdev that are in charge of this. And also probably becase SLFs only have small hardpoints, while most mining hardpoints are medium, and God forbids to ever change the size of stuff to make it more available.

[@Reddotzebra]

@@NeroCM It would work with small mining lasers since the fighters have two forward hardpoints, and you could have two of them on most of the larger ships. They would have to add a command for mining to the NPC pilots though...

[@NeroCM]

@@Reddotzebra My idea would be to change drastically how the collector limphets work, and add in a type of "utility" SLF that you can equip with a number of different roles, like repair, trading (to land with large ships at outposts), mining and others I haven't thought about yet. Then you change the limphets so that they remain active until deactivated, and remove the need to have them in cargo (make them like the probes for exploration). That way you drop the limphets with your cargo open and go into your SLF. the Limphets follow your SLF and as you mine they collect the stuff and bring it back to the mothership. Or if they can't be assed to program the limphets to recognize the active ship, make them so that you can target the area you are in for collection.

[@martinburnette3432]

I use my orca for exploration, sure... but it makes one stylish mining ship

[@57thStIncident]

Martin Burnette I’ve used mine a bit for smuggling (both freight and privacy-seeking passengers)

[@57thStIncident]

Agree that Vulture and FAS aren’t particularly useful for anything other than combat. I’d think this is probably also true of the FDL, Mamba, and the Alliance ships as well. I guess the alliance ships’ jump ranges aren’t quite as shit but I’d pick a T7 for exploring before these. Maybe an alliance ship can be used for mining but then so probably can a FDS.

[@IRMentat]

My Vulture is a good ship, she served me well. Well enough that I have been tempted to dig it up again on occasion, pampered life of maintenance with no more unseemly dents is the more likely retirement plan tho.

[@mckeeganator5844]

Type 10 explorer, and type 7 explorer oh and explorer assault ship, those are my main 3 ships

[@walrusahoy5878]

Roasted puke icecream...not regular, poached or baked but roasted. The Italians call this Straciatella (or at least I hear the onomatopoeia).

[@mica720x]

Damnit bob

[@jimv8957]

YAY

[@cooperproductions3731]

Wait, i was using a hauler as a trading vessel not knowing it was not designed for that?

[@santiagochango]

Was that a changeling?

[@casbalti]

Yeah the power plant one the Vulture SUCKS! But if your REALLY carefully you can use it unungineered with beam and MC

[@ghostrecondelta1741]

Is it bad that my Type 9 has a jump range of 23ly with all 744 cargo?

[@Cooldude-ko7ps]

Ghost Recon Delta17 that’s alright I think

[@Bacondoggo]

Pretty good, could use engineers

[@martindinner3621]

Sounds about right to me!

[@DawnbreakerDivinations]

Anti-Xeno Orca ftw

[@psycopt8770]

this

[@ironspore]

I use a Chieftain for mining!

[@vincentvalashu]

Where's the FDL?

[@Reddotzebra]

Yeah, seriously? It's the PvP meta ship but it seriously CAN only do one bloody thing right. So it should be here, right along with Vulture.

[@eddyfuzzy5]

Using an Eagle MkII for exploration can actually be quite fun.

[@Datan0de]

I'd love to see your build!

[@vib80]

There is a reason some explorers use an Anaconda with a fighter bay. And it's to have the sort of fun of having a small fast ship out there to do things like run canyons.

[@blarzgh]

I built a PvP T7 for the lulz. Gonna be honest, it's a bit shit. But with a couple of phasing Cytos and a metric fuckload of HRPs (5500 hull) it's a giggle to use against big ships like the Anaconda.

[@forgottennewsnetwork5929]

2 words............Combat Haulers A wing of these things are way to much fun I'm pretty sure it's illegal in some countries.

[@danielsieker9927]

I wanna use a hauler for PvP

[@dobbsje25]

I go pirate hunting in my hauler

[@Pecetos]

I loved my type-7 septic tank . Made my first good money transporting shit form sothis.

[@mikehill9806]

Hauler = haulage; transporting haulage missions. Not sure how it can take off with such massive landing gear - when it retracts those feet, where do they go? They can't fit surely?

[@firefraction8156]

GOD DAMMIT BOB!!

[@chanceschofield9324]

Type 10 for life. Sorry Yamiks.

[@Reddotzebra]

YES! Best heavy mining vessel until you get the Cutter! Built like a brick outhouse and with turrets both up and down.

[@markhackett2302]

Turn the hauler into a taxi. Give it a business class 3D passenger cabin fixed and unchangeable, for free. Noobs will use it to start into passenger missions, at least until they work out if they want to do something bigger and go for a cobra/viper. Everyone else will still use it for a cheap bubble taxi.

[@Streak115]

Ok, so here we go as to whether (I agree that) any of these ships are really 1-use. Hauler, It's a beginner ship and the only reason people who have other ships use it is for a taxi (or occasionally beginner exploration.) Type-7, and my first disagreement with you. It is a capable early to mid-game exploration ship due to the jump range and cockpit as well as having enough internal slots. Orca, you seem to ignore (non-bulk) passenger missions which is probably why you have left the Beluga and Dolphin in lower tiers than the Orca. These ships are alright at exploration and have a use for hauling passengers. Additionally, these ships are used for combat because you can make them acceptably quick with a large amount of hull reinforcements and just ram other ships to death. Vulture, you are completely correct. It is a combat only ship. The same goes for the Fer-De-Lance though because it is just a bigger Vulture (as far as capabilities anyway.) Assault Ship, not going to argue about this one. Type-9, if you count surface/void opal mining as a separate thing from trading then this has two roles. It is not a fast or maneuverable ship, but it does have the hardpoints and internal slots to do both types of mining effectively.