I've been using https://edgalaxy.net/hge to find my HGEs instead of Inara and it's been a game changer.
Check out Ironheart Corporation. Played with those guys for a long time, great group and they've always got something going on.
Buy every ship in the game, outfit them all for a specific task/mechanic/game play loop.
Shameless plug; if you need a player group check out Ironheart Corporation.
Lots of ships in my hanger, but here's some I have a lot of hours in
Exploration/rescue DBX
Smuggler python (17% heat at 300m/s WITH PRISMOS)
Obligatory Vette, Forward the Federation
Once the samples delivery started it kind of killed the war for me: I'm the person who wants to casually fight interceptors. Humanity took back like 80 systems this week with near zero invasions. Although that's cool for the groups hardcore into the war, makes it real hard for me to participate
Anti-xeno combat and exobiology are good money, wing mining or wing massacre missions with a full wing is really good money
Sounds like my PvE piracy krait mk2 build. I'm using pack hounds instead of pacifiers though
I recently purchased one of every ship in the game: the goal is to do a full build with engineering for each of them. I've had a long time rule on this play through that I won't own two of any ship.
It'll be interesting for sure, I've never played a game with both customization and usable ship interiors. As a big fan of ED, the ship interior thing is such a let down. Star Citizen's way of doing it is very cool and would open up some fun new gameplay loops in ED. Maybe Starfield will scratch that itch for me.