Curse you Python! Stop being so damn useful!

[DukeIronHand]

Current career about 8 months. Plenty of money. More then I know what to do with. Access to all ships except the two top tier rank-locked ships.

Off to my favorite LYR shipyard to buy a Python for...oh...the 10th time in this career.
Try to keep myself to minimal number of ships. Had one all A-rated and sold it 4 days ago as I (obviously) often do but, on Day 4 I am off to buy another. Working the BGS and, again, it has shown itself to be the King.

Try to get rid of it, try to make do with other ships as a Lakon fan, but it's just too great, handy, and incredibly useful.
Damn you Python. Hopefully I have finally learned my lesson and I'll keep it this time.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

The Python is a major bum-magnet, and I've found my own drawn back to mine (I own three) more times than I care to count.

The Dolphin is a rival in the small ship department though, despite being far less combat-capable.

In the Large Ship department, it's tough to beat the Orca for general use.

 

[ThriveInDark]

Haha, I know the feeling. I actually am a proud 0 Python owner, but I admit that instead I have 4 ships, and I could just reconfigure a single Python to do the same thing as 3/4 (Its never gonna fulfill my 688 m/s combat Courier's particular niche). I have a Courier, Asp, FDL, and an Anaconda. I am about to add an FAS to my fleet as well for a dedicated CZ Sweeper.

In fact, the only thing currently keeping me from buying a Python is that A) My build for one on Coriolis turned out almost as expensive as my Conda and is almost identical but smaller and weaker, and B) Subjectively, I like having a reason to jump behind different flight models and the Python isn't anything special to fly in that its not especially fast or maneuverable, and doesn't carry crazy firepower or shields. It has enough of everything to get everything done but with no particular style or flash. The same thing that makes you buy one over and over is ultimately the reason you probably sell one over and over too

 

[Xious]

My Python gathers dust. I dressed it up the other night and took it out to a nice CNB but meh... just too slow.

Took it back to the hanger and got the Vulture.

 

[ThriveInDark]

My Python gathers dust. I dressed it up the other night and took it out to a nice CNB but meh... just too slow.

Took it back to the hanger and got the Vulture.

You gotta test drive that FAS man, I'm tellin ya

 

[DukeIronHand]

Alrighty. Python all A-rated, fitted out, skin, nameplate, and number on.
I'm a-keeping it this time darn it...no really.
Fleet now consists of it, my Conda, and my T9.

 

[Xious]

You gotta test drive that FAS man, I'm tellin ya

Actually, I did fix up a nice FAS build last night. It is pretty agile but my problem with it is the hardpoint placement. In order to keep constant fire on my target with all guns, the target must be near the bottom middle. With the Vulture, I have full range and can keep constant fire no matter where the target is.

I'm still experimenting though.

 

[ThriveInDark]

Actually, I did fix up a nice FAS build last night. It is pretty agile but my problem with it is the hardpoint placement. In order to keep constant fire on my target with all guns, the target must be near the bottom middle. With the Vulture, I have full range and can keep constant fire no matter where the target is.

I'm still experimenting though.

Rotate 45 degree relative to your target. It is almost automatic to me now thanks to this ship. Also gives you the advantage that you are then pitching at all times to track which is your fastest axis anyway. I run a bunch of weird builds with the FAS because it can. Talkin like, Top Large Gimbal Beam, Bottom Large PA, 2 gimbal bursts or MCs on the wings for small ships and easy sustained dps. Also dug the snot out of top large gimbal pulse, bottom large fixed beam (like a laser pointer for the rails) and imperial hammers. It is also a ship that (before engineers were a thing) could run a full sized prismatic shield with plenty of power to spare which was pretty rare at the time. So yeah, it can get funky if you wanna get Bootsy on it

 

[DragonIV]

My Python should be named Mr. Mission given what I spend doing it it. It's the king of missions. Was going to buy one for mining, but IndigoWyrd got my refurbishing my T9 for that and it works beautifully (when the roids don't disappear in VR, that is). I bet I am in that Python at least 50% of my playing time over the past six months.

 

[ThriveInDark]

My Python should be named Mr. Mission given what I spend doing it it. It's the king of missions. Was going to buy one for mining, but IndigoWyrd got my refurbishing my T9 for that and it works beautifully (when the roids don't disappear in VR, that is). I bet I am in that Python at least 50% of my playing time over the past six months.

You mean one of these.....?

The USS Flytrap

I do have a Python built in Coriolis just in case I decide I need to resurrect my old ship, the Bruce Willis(pre-horizons from my xbox CMDR, his sacrifice was for the faster progress of my pc CMDR may he rest in peace), and how I'd set it up with the current content available

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

I try to use a variety of ships for BGS work, but always end up in the Python. Nothing else can do everything as well as the Python does.

 

[wrmiller]

My Python should be named Mr. Mission given what I spend doing it it. It's the king of missions. Was going to buy one for mining, but IndigoWyrd got my refurbishing my T9 for that and it works beautifully (when the roids don't disappear in VR, that is). I bet I am in that Python at least 50% of my playing time over the past six months.

My Python got me to Elite in trading by doing missions. And she still marches on.

I just sold back my 4th FDL after discovering (yet again) I can make more credits, faster, in a haz res with my Python than I could with that thing. To each their own.

 

[DukeIronHand]

I try to use a variety of ships for BGS work, but always end up in the Python. Nothing else can do everything as well as the Python does.

Oh yea, and that's the kicker.
I like my Lakons but the T6 and AspX can't hold a candle to the Python for BGS work.
T7 and T9 would work but medium pads are a thing for the BGS.
Even looked at the Dropship and Gunship (the only ships I have never owned) but, via Corolis, I can't get a build that comes close to the "Devil Snake."

Course it took me a while to warm up to the AspX too...but not a year!

 

[Aashenfox]

My Python gathers dust. I dressed it up the other night and took it out to a nice CNB but meh... just too slow.

Took it back to the hanger and got the Vulture.

Ya, like the other dude said, bit of engineering, and the FAS is so much better than the Vulture. All of the good stuff, none of the bad.

EDIT: Sorry, see you tried it. I agree hardpoints re a bit weird, but you get used to em. I use two large efficient beams, top and bottom, so one of them is always hitting, and two rails for long range sniping.

 

[ThriveInDark]

Oh yea, and that's the kicker.
I like my Lakons but the T6 and AspX can't hold a candle to the Python for BGS work.
T7 and T9 would work but medium pads are a thing for the BGS.
Even looked at the Dropship and Gunship (the only ships I have never owned) but, via Corolis, I can't get a build that comes close to the "Devil Snake."

Course it took me a while to warm up to the AspX too...but not a year!

Literally hated the Asp up until like 4 days ago when in the course of engineering my other ships I engineered it too ( https://eddp.co/u/m3sfc48j ), and ended up with a stealthable 115 dps build that jumps 40 LY. I want to hate it so bad for its goofy looks but..... it just does everything I ask of it with flying colors dammit!

 

[Iskariot]

Current career about 8 months. Plenty of money. More then I know what to do with. Access to all ships except the two top tier rank-locked ships.

Off to my favorite LYR ship to buy a Python for...oh...the 10th time in this career.
Try to keep myself to minimal number of ships. Had one all A-rated and sold it 4 days ago as I (obviously) often do but, on Day 4 I am off to buy another. Working the BGS and, again, it has shown itself to be the King.

Try to get rid of it, try to make do with other ships as a Lakon fan, but it's just too great, handy, and incredibly useful.
Damn you Python. Hopefully I have finally learned my lesson and I'll keep it this time.

Never sold my first Python.
It is my go to ship. It has no competition in the niche it sits in.
Which is a bit sad. Lakon or Gutamaya should build a competitor for the medium pad.

 

[Cmdr Tel]

The Python is a major bum-magnet, and I've found my own drawn back to mine (I own three) more times than I care to count.

The Dolphin is a rival in the small ship department though, despite being far less combat-capable.

In the Large Ship department, it's tough to beat the Orca for general use.

Agree on the Dolphin..and Orca! I pretty much keep ending up back in my Dolphin going somewhere before I get a chance to press the buy button on anything else. Great ship to fly.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Oh yea, and that's the kicker.
I like my Lakons but the T6 and AspX can't hold a candle to the Python for BGS work.
T7 and T9 would work but medium pads are a thing for the BGS.
Even looked at the Dropship and Gunship (the only ships I have never owned) but, via Corolis, I can't get a build that comes close to the "Devil Snake."

Course it took me a while to warm up to the AspX too...but not a year!

I rather like my many-purpose Dropship: https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/fed...==.Aw18eQ==..EweloBhBGA2ECs8CmBDA5gG2SGF9A===

Lots of cargo space, thick skin, and SRV when Generators need shutting down or CIF needs collecting, and guns enough to make NPC's miserable.
Fun little ship, ugly as can be, but it's gotten many jobs done.

 

[Iskariot]

The Python is a major bum-magnet, and I've found my own drawn back to mine (I own three) more times than I care to count.

The Dolphin is a rival in the small ship department though, despite being far less combat-capable.

In the Large Ship department, it's tough to beat the Orca for general use.

The Orca? Really?
Never even considered it. Perhaps I should.
It is a nice looking ship, especially in black, but it is so... toothless.

For me the Anaconda is the Python of the large pad.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Agree on the Dolphin..and Orca! I pretty much keep ending up back in my Dolphin going somewhere before I get a chance to press the buy button on anything else. Great ship to fly.

The Dolphin is so great to fly, I've wound up buying 3 of them.. one as a primary exploration craft (currently out at the Guardian ruins, teaching first-timers how to scan obelisks), one as an actual passenger hauler for mid-range runs (up to the route-plotting limit of 1000 Ly), and one a specialized explorer filled with Corrosion-resistant Cargo Racks for picking icky alien things.

And the Orca.. I have a hard time staying out of because it's just too much fun to fly - except when it comes to Haz RESing for bounties - then I break out the Beluga, at which people laugh, until it opens fire.