I did the same thing over the weekend and am also happy with the swap. I tested it on my favorite trade route and the difference in cargo capacity was a non-issue. Although I had warmed up to flying the T9, the Conda is much more enjoyable to fly. I think your point about security may prove to be an important one when Powerplay drops. Powerplay rules may make it more difficult to trade in a ship that is unarmed and on minimal shields.
Ships Anaconda or Python?
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I did the same thing over the weekend and am also happy with the swap. I tested it on my favorite trade route and the difference in cargo capacity was a non-issue. Although I had warmed up to flying the T9, the Conda is much more enjoyable to fly. I think your point about security may prove to be an important one when Powerplay drops. Powerplay rules may make it more difficult to trade in a ship that is unarmed and on minimal shields.
In before 777driver.
I traded in both, and yes I believe the anaconda is better than the T9 in terms of profits per hour. It is actually not so easy to see why, because it has 468 T cargo shieldless, vs T9's 532 T, so about 12% less. But:
(a) It is faster and more maneuverable, so you can get in and out of the mailslot, and out of station masslock range faster.
(b) It has bigger jump range fully loaded. Mine does over 20 ly, whereas the T9 can only do 13 ly. What this means is that for many routes that take T9 two jumps, the anaconda can do them in one. On any route where the anaconda saves a jump vs a T9, it is much better.
(c) Because of the jump range issues, there are some routes that are only available to anacondas and no other ships. For example, I am currently doing a route where the stars are 35 ly apart, with a turnaround profit of a bit over 2700 per ton. The anaconda can do this in two jumps one way, no other big cargo ship can. So this route is not worth it to run in any other ship. What that means is that there is less competition for these types of routes, and they take longer to run dry. Furthermore, when they do, your unladen jump range is likely 36-38 ly, so it is very easy to move to a new route. T9's unladen jump range is around 20 ly.
(d) You get interdicted far less in an anaconda, in my experience.
(e) You can do trading community goals better in an anaconda because, due to your superior jump range, a bigger volume of space is available to you for efficiently finding the right goods to bring in.
All these things add up to the anaconda generally making more per hour. The only exception is if you find a route no one else knows about between two stars <13 ly from each other. Then the T9 will pull ahead (but by less than 12% because it is slower and will thus run a bit less of the back-and-forth trips per hour).
For myself, I don't know any secret T9 routes, and in my experience any good route gets found out fairly quickly via crowdsourcing. The anaconda gives you much more flexibility for choosing routes to run, you can stay in a particular route much longer (because most traders still don't have anacondas to compete with you), and on average you make more just due to speed and jump savings.
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Once you have the anaconda kitted for trading, and can find a route that gives you 6 million per hour, you can earn the python in:
(55171395 - 55171395 * 0.16) / 6000000 =~ about 8 hours of trading.
Just one problem mate. You are forgetting to massive cost difference between a T9 and an Annaconda.
T9 - range 13ly 532t cargo = ~96m
Annaconda - range 15ly 468t full cargo = ~161m
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=60Y,,2-3IBk9Y8S4s6u6k,0DI0Bk0AA08c07205U05U05U03w
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=606,,2-D8Ba9i8SD8D88I,0Bk0AA0AA0AA08c08c08c07207207203w
So unless you want to keep knocking your head with your T7 for another 60m+ before you can start enjoying max cargo you might as well swap your T7 for a T9 and give yourself some slack for running so many trips with your T7.
With my T7 I was earning ~500k in roundtrips. Now with my T9 I'm earning 1.2m in roundtrips. That's what a cargo increase of 300t does to you. Instead of running and running to try to get that Annaconda.
But it's all a matter of play style. I don't need to have 2700 per ton trade routes and need 20ly and 2 jumps to get there when I can find 2300-2500 per ton trade routes and need 13ly and only 1 jump.
Count in roundtrips not per hour.
For example with your Annaconda you make 6m per hour. So thats 2700 * 468 = 1.263.600 per trip. 6.000.000 / 1.263.600 = 4,75 trips per hour
Same with a T9 but lower trip profit. 2300 * 532 = 1.223.600 per trip. 6.000.000 / 1.223.600 = 4,9 trips per hour
Yea the T9 feels slow but to my opinion they can make the same amount of profit the only difference is that you can start using the T9 alot faster since it's 60m cheaper than the Annaconda.
Enjoy.