Not sure about my Type 7

GreenDemon

GreenDemon
I upgraded to a Type 7 at the weekend, traded in my Type 6, and I regretted what I'd done!

I should have thought about it more when I did it, as only had about a million creds left afterwards, barely enough for insurance let alone upgrades.
i didn't want to risk taking it out and losing it due to inadequate insurance, so all I could think of doing was to buy a cheap sidewinder and trek off to another system where I had a Diamondback Scout stored and work with that for a while.

So i upgraded the FSD etc in the sidewinder, and took a painfully long journey to collect my diamondback. I did some hunting in a RES site, built up the creds a bit, and then took the diamondback over to the Type 7 location and sold it. i was then able to throw some more money at the Type 7 and have just started taking it out to do some bigger trade runs.

I managed to save myself this time, but it could've easily been a disastrous mistake.

I'm still not sure it was a wise purchase. The type 7 is going to need one major FSD upgrade I suspect, to haul all that cargo around. Until that happens, I'm looking at multiple jumps on trade runs, so was probably better off sticking with the Type 6 for a while longer.

The moral of the story, take your time over decisions you make in this game, it could be so easy to lose everything very quickly!
 

Bertrand Du Guesclin

Bertrand Du Guesclin
GreenDemon said:
I upgraded to a Type 7 at the weekend, traded in my Type 6, and I regretted what I'd done!

I should have thought about it more when I did it, as only had about a million creds left afterwards, barely enough for insurance let alone upgrades.
i didn't want to risk taking it out and losing it due to inadequate insurance, so all I could think of doing was to buy a cheap sidewinder and trek off to another system where I had a Diamondback Scout stored and work with that for a while.

So i upgraded the FSD etc in the sidewinder, and took a painfully long journey to collect my diamondback. I did some hunting in a RES site, built up the creds a bit, and then took the diamondback over to the Type 7 location and sold it. i was then able to throw some more money at the Type 7 and have just started taking it out to do some bigger trade runs.

I managed to save myself this time, but it could've easily been a disastrous mistake.

I'm still not sure it was a wise purchase. The type 7 is going to need one major FSD upgrade I suspect, to haul all that cargo around. Until that happens, I'm looking at multiple jumps on trade runs, so was probably better off sticking with the Type 6 for a while longer.

The moral of the story, take your time over decisions you make in this game, it could be so easy to lose everything very quickly!
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Classic mistake unfortunately. Happy to hear you managed to safely recover from buying that Type 7 too early.
In this type of critical situation, I would advise selling the big ship, endure the loss due to the 10% ship resell penalty, and try again later with more money.

Better this than flying uninsurred and lose everything.
 

Klab

Klab
Seems like you have got over the worst part. I would be minded to stick with the T7 now you have put all that effort into it, hammer out a few trades & it will all look much better soon enough :)
 

Senex VII

Senex VII
My rule of thumb, for what it's worth: always have twice the ticket price in your balance before committing to buy a ship (preferably three times to give you flexibility).
 

KaizoMK

KaizoMK
I did the same thing selling my python to get a type 9. I realized I totally didn't have the money to trade, so I was gong to run delivery missions to start. That is, until I realized how slow the t9 was....

I sold back to the python, now 10m poorer.
 

veryinky

V
I bought a Type-9 after 16 hours straight high intensity RES bounty hunting, in an instance that produced Pythons/Clippers/Fed Dropships/Vultures. Refusing to leave or log out because it's annoying to get the big ships to spawn.

I flew all of 1 hour in the Type-9. I'd describe the experience as "soul crushing". I don't understand how people are able to fly those ships.

Python setup for trading can carry almost 280 tons and land on medium pads (outposts), while a Type-7 carries less and can't fit in outposts. Even though the Python is both wider and longer than the Type-7.

Hauler->Cobra->DbExplorer->Asp->Python. I'm going to ignore the fact that the Type-9 even exists.
 
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