I'm flying a Terrapin (basically like a slightly souped-up Cobra Mk3), crippled with the Breakable 'Standard' Equipment OXPs but with a competent engineering team, and then fitted with almost every internally-mounted gadget in existence...
I quickly found that an energy recharge rate of 5 may be adequate for an iron ass but is manifestly insufficient for a pocket frigate, so I resisted the temptation of buying an uber ship and removed a lot of equipment instead.
My current game style involves mainly criss-crossing the charts following hits, military deployments, contracts, escort services, deliveries and destroying almost everything that has a bounty on it - except Black Monks Gunships
, which I always attack (the Black Monks are known of taking entire families into slavery as loan collaterals after executing the debtor), and asteroids, which for me is akin to shooting at the (variegated and often ruggedly pleasant) landscape.Asteroid-watching aside, my savings tend to climb steadily, a couple of Ks at a time, only to suffer catastrophic setbacks every time I miscalculate when to leave or get caught in an unfortunate crossfire.
