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Carancarak
Member Posts: 8
OK i wanted to know whats a good ship to use if u want low warp fuel cost and pretty good cargo capacity
The aprox cost would be nice
Thx Caran
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The Merchant Frieghter is pretty good, it uses 6 gallons of fuel per warp and has 80 cargo spaces. It's fairly fast too and can shoot down missles and nukes. It costs 144,000 credits (I think). I always start every game in this ship.
Yup, I'd agree with that. The Merchant Frieghter is a good ship to upgrade to from the n00b ship as soon as you have the cash. The warp fuel eff. would be 6 gallons per jump if you character has 10 wisdom (8 with 0 wisdom).
When you have the dough rolling in, it's decision time... you can invest in a ship that will keep raking in the cash on your trade routes, in which case, go for the Whale at $595k, max 160 holds, warp eff. 7 (9 with 0 wisdom) Or the Speedstar which has 100 holds, costs $850k but is super efficient at 4 (6) gallons per jump, and so is ideal for taxi runs too.
Whale sounds ok...
I HATE taxi runs i find they're nowhere near worth it, take too long if u make money and small ones pay to low, easy to make WAY more with 45 holds in the noob ship going between two 1 hop apart starports.
If you have the money, go with the speedster over the whale. The warp per cargo cost is actually slightly lower on the speedster if you have high wisdom, and once you burn out a trading pair and have to move to the next, or worse yet search out a new pair, you'll be very thankful for the lower costs.
As well, making 2 100 unit trade runs will net you more exp than 1 200 trade run... so as long as the warp costs are similar you're better off going efficient over mass.
The only time I would recommend the Whale is if you're trading in an area that you consider highly dangerous. A Speedster is, strangely enough, very slow on in-system travel, has few shields, and it's defensive option isn't very great. The whale is also slow, but has better shielding and a VERY good defensive option in it's repel.