Corvette Trader?

Mrat13

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I've tried a T9 trader, and even if you make it survivable, you will constantly be interdicted. I tried an Anaconda trader, and realized filling it with passenger cabins was much more profitable. I'd buy a Cutter, if I had enough money (I don't touch mining, it bores me). However, I looked at the price, and I could get enough for a Corvette trader faster than getting a Cutter, but it feels a little....silly....to me.

Have I gone mad, or should I try a Trader Corvette?
 

Marklar_

Marklar_
The Guardian FSD boosters deal with one of the main drawbacks to trading Corvettes, they're perfectly good trading ships now.

But if you have the rank you may as well go for a Cutter since it's a better trading ship and not that much more expensive. If you want the best PvE combat ship that you can also trade in without having to buy a Cutter too, then a Corvette makes sense.
 

Mrat13

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Vedmo said:
You may very well have gone mad, but the Corvette is a great trader and even better passenger runner. Jump range is probably the biggest drawback, but nothing at all silly about a killing machine with a 500+ ton cargo hold.
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Well I've already got a Passenger Anaconda. Cabins only go up to size 6, so while you get more cargo due to the size 7's in the 'Vette, you aren't getting more passengers as far as I'm aware, unless I'm wrong.
 

Mrat13

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Marklar_ said:
The Guardian FSD boosters deal with one of the main drawbacks to trading Corvettes, they're perfectly good trading ships now.

But if you have the rank you may as well go for a Cutter since it's a better trading ship and not that much more expensive. If you want the best PvE combat ship that you can also trade in without having to buy a Cutter too, then a Corvette makes sense.
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I was checking prices, and the Cutter is nearly twice as expensive, but I'll check again just in case.

Edit: Whoops, accidentally forgot to change the powerplant out from an 8A when I clicked for Coriolis to give me a trader build....
 
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Marklar_

Marklar_
Mrat13 said:
I was checking prices, and the Cutter is nearly twice as expensive, but I'll check again just in case.
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Hull price is pretty close. Cutters are more expensive to A-rate, but unlike the Corvette you don't really need to kit a Cutter out in A-rated modules to make good use of it.
 

wrmiller

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Disclaimer: I only play PvE (Solo or Mobius)

I run cargo missions. I'm not a bulk trader. I'm particularly fond of the elite cargo missions that pay 4-6mil each. Typically 180T or 120T is the loadout.

I have two armed traders, a Python and a Corvette. The Python will carry one 180T mission. The corvette will carry two 180T and one 120T mission at one time. Stacking three missions in the vette also provides the opportunity for pirates to come after me. Some missions will generate 4 pirate condas that come at you one at a time. I blow them all up, scavenge up the juicier materials floating about, and get about 1Mil more in credits for blowing up the 4 pirates.

When stacking missions you can get interdicted by pirates from more than one mission which means you could be taking on two or three condas at one time. Piece of cake in a vette, and it means more credits and more materials. :D
 

Vedmo

Vedmo
Mrat13 said:
. Cabins only go up to size 6, so while you get more cargo due to the size 7's in the 'Vette, you aren't getting more passengers as far as I'm aware, unless I'm wrong.
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You are correct. A Vette can run 5 size 6 passenger cabins though, which is why for strait body hauling it can edge everything else out. Not suggesting you personally should do it, just pointing out one of its non-combat strong points.
 

M00ka

M00ka
wrmiller said:
Disclaimer: I only play PvE (Solo or Mobius)

I run cargo missions. I'm not a bulk trader. I'm particularly fond of the elite cargo missions that pay 4-6mil each. Typically 180T or 120T is the loadout.

I have two armed traders, a Python and a Corvette. The Python will carry one 180T mission. The corvette will carry two 180T and one 120T mission at one time. Stacking three missions in the vette also provides the opportunity for pirates to come after me. Some missions will generate 4 pirate condas that come at you one at a time. I blow them all up, scavenge up the juicier materials floating about, and get about 1Mil more in credits for blowing up the 4 pirates.

When stacking missions you can get interdicted by pirates from more than one mission which means you could be taking on two or three condas at one time. Piece of cake in a vette, and it means more credits and more materials. :D
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That is exactly what I do, except my Corvette is 400T and the Python is 264T. I have got so bad I will now linger around in SC waiting for the Incoming Enemy ships to arrive, won't close the mission until I have killed all of them (and with mission stacking that can be a lot, my record is 12 Anacondas and 3 Pythons - that one alone netted me a little over 7.7M C in just bonuses, not counting the bounties).

Just think of the Corvette as the Python's big brother, it handles like one!
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
My trade 'vette only carries 400+t but is pretty hardy... Exactly as suggested above, stack a few elite missions, get the 'condas coming after you, added bonus of bounties and mats to break up the easy trading.
Highly recommend (but the Cutter will haul more and is also quite capable of looking after itself - but the 'vette handles better!)
 

wrmiller

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M00ka said:
Just think of the Corvette as the Python's big brother, it handles like one!
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This is exactly what I call my vette! :)

Both are G5 engineered, and to me, they handle nearly identical. :)

I run a couple of small SCBs in my Python which is why I can only carry 180T at one time. But as the missions I am interested in are typically 180T and 120T I would need at least 300T capability in the Python to stack two missions. And unfortunately it won't do that.

I also tried a Cutter that was outfitted to handle 720T of missions, but combat in that thing actually got boring (to me) and took too much time to kill anything. But then I'm not a expert Cutter pilot either, so I figure the blame is on me as well as the lack of handling in the Cutter.

So I went back to my Vette. :D
 

M00ka

M00ka
wrmiller said:
This is exactly what I call my vette! :)

Both are G5 engineered, and to me, they handle nearly identical. :)

I run a couple of small SCBs in my Python which is why I can only carry 180T at one time. But as the missions I am interested in are typically 180T and 120T I would need at least 300T capability in the Python to stack two missions. And unfortunately it won't do that.

I also tried a Cutter that was outfitted to handle 720T of missions, but combat in that thing actually got boring (to me) and took too much time to kill anything. But then I'm not a expert Cutter pilot either, so I figure the blame is on me as well as the lack of handling in the Cutter.

So I went back to my Vette. :D
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To my thinking and this may be a result of my ham fisted flying (non) capabilities there is a gulf of difference to flying a Vette compared to a Cutter. As I said, a Corvette handles like a larger Python, to me a Cutter handles like a slightly (very slightly) more nimble T-9. I found I like the way the Corvette handles, but with the Cutter it was like having to check if there were any stellar bodies within 500LS each time I wanted to change direction. I would dearly love the Cutter to handle better, I would snap one up then. But I refuse to fly a ship I just don't like flying, simple as that.

It is kind of strange but I actually enjoy flying the Corvette more than the Python, I think the feeling that there is NOTHING out their in NPC world that would give me strife just makes the whole experience just that little bit nicer :D
 

Mrat13

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Marklar_ said:
Hull price is pretty close. Cutters are more expensive to A-rate, but unlike the Corvette you don't really need to kit a Cutter out in A-rated modules to make good use of it.
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2nd edit, but I'll put it here. I just found out you can't get a Cutter in Li Yong Rui space, which bumps the price back up. You can get a Corvette though.
 

wrmiller

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M00ka said:
It is kind of strange but I actually enjoy flying the Corvette more than the Python, I think the feeling that there is NOTHING out their in NPC world that would give me strife just makes the whole experience just that little bit nicer :D
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I too prefer flying my Vette. And I thought I was the only weirdo here... :D :D

I've tackled 4 condas at one time in both my Python and my Vette. I barely survived it in the Python, but in the Vette I was still hoping for more bad guys while I was busy scooping up mats.
 

M00ka

M00ka
wrmiller said:
I too prefer flying my Vette. And I thought I was the only weirdo here... :D :D

I've tackled 4 condas at one time in both my Python and my Vette. I barely survived it in the Python, but in the Vette I was still hoping for more bad guys while I was busy scooping up mats.
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I must be doing something wrong though. I can stack a bunch of fetch missions and three or four of them can generate incoming enemies so I know they will only appear in destination system but they still interdict me one by one. Never had more than one mission related Conda and that kinda sucks. The only exception is when I am engaged with the Mission target and a totally unrelated non-mission ship, normally either an Elite T-10, FdL or Mamba will drop in and try to do it's pirate thing. Which if you think about it just shows how utterly stupid NPC pirates are. There I am, despatching a Deadly Anaconda with easy, whilst trying desperately to not hit any of the ineffective system security ship and this idiot NPC drops in and opens fire. It is like seeing a mass gang brawl and deciding to just jump in and wondering why everyone is beating 20 shades of snot out of you lol
 

M00ka

M00ka
Abysinth said:
There's this...

Coriolis EDCD Edition

A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous
coriolis.io coriolis.io
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Nice is suppose but if you are going to go the weaponless Corvette route, why not just go fly the T-9? The beauty of the Corvette isn't that it can hold a goodly amount of cargo, it is that it can hold a goodly amount of cargo and still swat any annoying pirate that looks sideways at it without breaking stride.
 
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