Ok, I gave in and bought the Mercury!

Bambooza

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Reason for that is there is no $0 ccu.

This is why you need to reclaim the ship for store credit first.
Indeed that is true, unfortunately for me the Andromeda is part of the RSI Mega pack and I don't feel like melting it. I am still on the fence with the Mercury over the Andromeda and I don't see the need to own both ships at the moment.
 

Thalstan

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The Connie is turning into more of the ship you will take with your friends Hull D (along with a few others) to provide escort duty. For day to day cargo running, you are better off with a Taurus, a MAX, or the Mercury as all three offer more opportunities for making money with either more cargo capability, or cargo+data capability.

All in all, a good choice.
 

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The Connie is turning into more of the ship you will take with your friends Hull D (along with a few others) to provide escort duty. For day to day cargo running, you are better off with a Taurus, a MAX, or the Mercury as all three offer more opportunities for making money with either more cargo capability, or cargo+data capability.

All in all, a good choice.
It really does feel like this is the direction its going in.
 

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Okay so why do you all think it is so good? If you want a ship to do data runs the running part seems important and the herald is just better at that. Like the herald it has poor offence. The "smuggling tunnels" seriously if someone has invaded your ship how often will it really work that you can fight them off from those tunnels when you couldn't anyways. I am no connie fan either and I like medium sized ships are we reading data runner as electronic warfare ship? Suddenly there is a medium sized cargo ship that can always outrun the interdiction?

The main advantage it has over the connie for me is that the ship team have got better with layouts and cockpits but it massively pays for that in weopon terms and the connie can take a rover to (maybe the mercury can take a car). Cig have gone back to manual turrets to, as if a player is gonna log in and spend all day waiting for a fight because it will be so much fun when it happens to fire 2 size 2s.....
 

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Cig have gone back to manual turrets to, as if a player is gonna log in and spend all day waiting for a fight because it will be so much fun when it happens to fire 2 size 2s.....
Wait? What? That was my plan! To specialise as an expert turret gunner! The pilot has to send me a txt when some action occurs though as I will likely have fallen asleep whilst waiting.
 
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