Yes
The DBX is a terrific ship.
Mine, the
Custard Gannet, has been my all-purpose pootler for about a year now. Small pads, top-end jump range, cheapish rebuy and transport costs. Class 3 and 4 modules are available all over the place; with a decent FSD you're never more than one jump from whatever equipment you need for whatever's on hand right now.
so maybe I could do that and then buy a DBX to take over as my "runaround" ship,
Absolutely. Yes. Go for it. You're thinking along exactly the same lines as Lakon. Yes, the Queen has a Bentley and a Rolls and what have you. However much use they get, the Range Rover's never exactly gathering dust.
Taxi and odd job runner. Whatever comes up. Long range transit, market scouting, light haulage. Prospecting, courier mission stacking, datapoint farming, material gathering. All those little errands you find yourself doing to unlock engineers or gain rank - or whatever -- the DBX can handle.
This is the kind of odd side-story where your DBX takes a starring role:
- You're doing a CZ in your combat ship.
- You run out of Chromium for AFM refills (or whatever)
- Dock at the nearest shipyard
- Take the DBX out to a nearby source of Chromium
- Fill your boots until you've had enough, in any sense
- Return to, in the following order:
- The shipyard
- Your DPS-mobile
- The CZ
- pewpewing
No need to swap out modules on your combat ship; the most outfitting you'll have to do it fit the mission module (SRV in this case, and possibly a scoop or tank if you're in for a trek).
It's not the cheapest option for summoning, but if you're making money through other means the occasional few hundred kcr is easy enough to swallow. At the outside, Shinrarta - Sothis:
Under 500k for a long route. Most summons are much shorter, 20 minutes and five figures is more typical when you're in the bubble. In practice you don't often summon the taxi halfway across the bubble, you tend to be in the cockpit for long trips. Usually, when I'm summoning, it's because the big ship will make me twenty million from a transport CG and spending under 1% of that on logistics is a bargain in anybody's book.
The Custard Gannet can escape from most interdictions, grab the standout resources from a USS before trouble shows up for business, and generally be the nippy little utility ship that allows you to put the rest of your credits into a pimped-out "DPS-mobile" or whatever superyacht is the main love of your life.
I wish I knew what happened to my paintjob though. I've lost it, I don't know which one it was or where it came from, and without a bit of bright yellow inyourfaceness she's not really the Custard.
More information to come.
