I've Achieved My Goal of Owning Every Ship

[Cmdr Sharky]

The T9 is just a big slab of a ship, which goes where it wants when it wants to. I feel more like a passenger than a pilot.
I ding it on everything, even other ships that get too close.
I must have murdered 10 small ships last night just docking and un-docking. This side of the game feels a little dumb.
I wouldn't drive my car head on into a truck if I knew it couldn't stop, I'd give way, BIG TIME. NPC's are stupid.

I think that's part of the game's cartoonish brutal charm. Life is cheap in the Elite 'verse. Loitering? Zap, boom. Got in the way of a T9? Crunch, boom. The Empire and Federation have engineered their societies to teach this mindset - people are inoculated into thinking that their lives have no importance other than their meager position in a great system. And I'm sure that this is encouraged by the big manufacturers, every ship destroyed is a new sale. Good job our Pilot's Federation escape capsules are so reliable!

And by the way, for a starter are rare runs a good way to earn money. My opinion !

Absolutely. I don't think anyone's contesting that in a Hauler or Cobra sized ship, you can't beat rares for profit. T6 is borderline, there are routes that make more money than with rares, but they aren't as easy to find as the rares runs. That is a matter of taste. Some people enjoy finding routes for themselves, I do, but then I find exploiting that route to be much more tedious than figuring out which rare goods system to go to next for maximum profit on the selection of rares that I have in my hold. When I'm doing rare runs, it's unusual for me to jump into a system that I have ever been to before.