Why does there seem to be this fixation on asking for more medium-pad ships? There aren't even that many good missions to outposts. Why don't you just give up the kid stuff and come play with the big boys?
If you are going to insist, you can throw passenger cabins in a T6 or an AspX and you're good to go.
Have you tried a T7 or a Clipper? They are "large ships" that aren't impenetrable with all of the guns. Hell, even the T9 isn't if you use both of the Class 8 bays for cargo. A T7 is a great blockade runner for doing CG in Open.
The Orca is already a mid-tier passenger ship, but it still requires a large pad.
Roleplay or people who like only carrying passengers, they are also the only ones which can carry luxury class passenger cabin.There was three passenger ships made, then they became multirole.
What's the point.
Clippers are reliant on gimbal or turrets which is also not fuffilling and the trade ships are simply not fun to pilot. The Orca is also near on useless since it was nerfed a while back.
Actually large ships, (Not mediums masquerading as larges) are for people to have an easy time of it.
The small ships is where skill is both learned and perfected. Sure, you can "git gud" in a larger vessel, but even the mediums are soft by comparison to the little ones. When I say soft I mean give you second, or even third chances after a screwup. In a small one you're lucky if you get one screwup and still stay flying. Thats just more rewarding than crutching on OP shields and OP guns.
Roleplay or people who like only carrying passengers, they are also the only ones which can carry luxury class passenger cabin.
I agree with small ships is where skill is learned and perfected and I tried to stick to small ships for that, but I got bored of being an underdog all the time while having money for buying and equip a serious ship.