The beluga is more beautiful, and bigger, and can actually turn. Maybe not as much shields but it makes up for it in hull.
The beluga can also move cargo, not as much as the cutter, but with the beluga you can expect to jump 20ly.
The beluga is also much much cheaper.
Also, core mining is much easier in the beluga because it turns very well, and you can keep a good ampunt of cargo if you want to laser mine too.
Yeah ima lightly disagree.
Yes its cheaper. Yes it turns better. Yes that's an advantage in core mining. But lets compare painite mining which may or may not be faster, but is much more consistent returns on time.
The jump range thing is kind of moot since it can only carry half as much cargo for roughly the same range.
In fact if you cut the cutter down to the same 256 tons, 9 collectors, 2 prospectors, a shield, and 4 mining lasers, the difference in laden jump range is less than 2 ly; in favor of the Beluga.
However.
The cutter still has an empty 8 and 6 slot left for another 256 tons and an FSD booster while the mining equipped Beluga is stacked full.
So the cutter is about twice the price, but carries twice the cargo and has a 6 ly advantage before engineering. If you have the same cargo as the Beluga it jumps up to 8.5 ly advantage. If you engineer both FSDs the Beluga is about 34ly laden to the Cutter's 37.
And it pays for itself in one hour from logging in to collecting the credits:
Totally unengineered 512 tons OP mining rig for 313 million with 512 cargo, 10 bins, fuel scoop, shield, and 27.6 ly jump range entirely paid for in an hour. 314 million credits easily.
But for real the cutter handles like butt. It takes some practice for sure.
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