I have a fair number of characters in a Wormlife Freeport doing planetary interaction these days, and they fly some cheap epithal ships with an “oh shit” fit, but it only has 8k EHP or so – and when the new hauling ships were announced, I was interested. The T1 version, a squall, is affordable, and has the same space as the epithal, but can fit missiles, and has way more EHP. I like the cheaper epithal for wormholes, but decided to upgrade my marketing character (who is also my hauler) to a squall, just to see how I liked it. I’m not invested in quite all of the skills that I need yet, but so far, flying it is pretty comfortable and I like the illusion that I might be able to defend myself from a ganker or two. I don’t plan on taking it anywhere fancy, but since I never know what HS connection my WH is going to have or how many jumps away it is going to be, I wanted something that could withstand a few jumps.
I’m not in love with the appearance of the ship, it’s like a double stuffed Orca (thicker, but same length), in a pale grey. I’ve dragged around a billion ISK worth of PI in it so far, though I also know flying the ‘new’ shiny is just asking for attention to be drawn to yourself. Thankfully I’ve got all my instant docks and undocks set up for most of my routes, and I think the entire fit including hull came to less than 50m ISK, which isn’t that bad in the grade scheme of things. We’ll see how long I can keep it alive. The epithal on the other hand, is under 5m ISK, but feels like I’m flying in a tin can that a can opener has partially opened already.
Anyone else have strong feelings on what you fly?