Uh no. Python is a jack of all trades, master of none. If i'm doing combat, I want a combat ship. A python simply can't hang in PvP and in PvE there are scenarios that easily overwhelm it. For cargo, there's no reason to go to an outpost. Stations offer more amenities and better payout. 200 million to buy and A rate a ship that doesn't do anything well is over priced. I'd rather take that money buy a FDL and a Type 9 or and run circles around the python in cargo and combat. The jump range on the Python isn't good, so it's not a good bubble taxi or explorer. Frankly, it's 1 of only 3 ships I've ever sold that I would never buy again due to the fact I have at least 1 ship that outperforms it in every single function.
As for new palyers, if you want to run cargo and can't afford a type 9, get a type 7. It's quicker hauls as much cargo and is much much cheaper. Python gets so much hype, but it seems all the hype comes from players who have never flown other ships. They've only flown multirole ships, or they try to turn a non-multirole ship into a multirole ship and think the ship is flawed. As noted by your "The fdl can't haul cargo" comment. Combat ships aren't for hauling cargo.
I specifically said I was talking about players who are in the mid game and still trying to earn money and ranks.
If you don't have Big 3 money and are still trying to get to that level of financial success the Python is EASILY the best option because it does EVERYTHING (except maybe exploration. I can say since I don't explore)
Yes there are things that do
ONE SINGLE THING BETTER than the Python but it does
EVERYTHING WELL. Which was my entire point. Those ships will do that one job just fine, but can't do anything else. Meanwhile the Python can do that
SAME JOB and do it just fine,
BUT CAN STILL DO OTHER THINGS.
Which is what you need in the mid game. You need flexibility. Because most players at that point are still getting used to the game and its various nuances. It gives them the ability to try out a little bit of everything rather than just shoehorning themselves into a single thing.
Plus the Fer De Lance is not a mid-game ship. Its for someone who has experienced the game and has done combat and knows thats all they wanna do and know they don't want to be able to do
ANYTHING ELSE because the FDL
CAN'T do anything else unlike the Python which is in roughly the same price range and has a multitude of uses.
Let it be, they already nerfed it and honestly I think it needs a rebuff (That pitch rate, eugh). I respect anyone who PvPs in one because it's big and slow, with so few util-slots for something so big and slow.
It has a USP, medium pad, big cargo hauler. Let it be.. Don't kill it anymore.
I am not asking that it be nerfed?
I specifically stated that this thread was not a knock on the python.
