What type of ships are good for storage?

[Fizzie]

I assume hauler is the best for inv space. Are there drawbacks? All I care about is maximizing inventory space

[Foxglovez]

Do you have a freighter yet? If so, you can get all the 10 storage containers in there instantly. I believe you will find using a ship for storage to be a bit of a pain except maybe one to be Bob The Builder. Otherwise. If so, hauler holds the most but storage isn't particularly easy unless you have the units to buy the big boy hauler 48-21-48. They only hold more in the 3rd storage area as compared to all the rest of the ships that are 48-21-21.

The beauty of the freighter is it's a flying closet too and once you get the matter beam you can access from anywhere in system, and with the exocraft beam, they are also available. It is a major win win. No clue where you are in game so this may all be old news.

If you are new and doing the expedition, just use your freighter, ignore the rest of my blathering until you have completed the expedition.

[Fizzie]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Do you have a freighter yet? If so, you can get all the 10 storage containers in there instantly. I believe you will find using a ship for storage to be a bit of a pain except maybe one to be Bob The Builder. Otherwise. If so, hauler holds the most but storage isn't particularly easy unless you have the units to buy the big boy hauler 48-21-48. They only hold more in the 3rd storage area as compared to all the rest of the ships that are 48-21-21.

The beauty of the freighter is it's a flying closet too and once you get the matter beam you can access from anywhere in system, and with the exocraft beam, they are also available. It is a major win win. No clue where you are in game so this may all be old news.

If you are new and doing the expedition, just use your freighter, ignore the rest of my blathering until you have completed the expedition.

Ya im pretty new, just came across to owning my first freighter after saving it from pirates. Dont know anything about expeditions yet as im still working on intro missions. Ill look into any haulers I come across and maybe utilize the freighter more

[taniwhat]

Anything, Haulers are best but with the cargo extension most ships provide enough storage space once maxed out.

Fairly experienced player here and I don't have a hauler, just use a freighter and 1 row of the 3 rows of my S-Class exotic for essentials like launch fuel, tritium, hyperdrive fuel, shield recharge.

That leaves me more storage capacity than I need. Playing survival or Perma-death with lower capacity limits a hauler would be a lot more useful in comparison. (Lower per-slot capacity caps)

[Jaggid Edje]

I play survival and permadeath exclusively, and I even then have not yet ever extended a normal ships cargo capacity to the 21 slot cap, much less a hauler to it's 42 slot cap. Even with the lower stack count in those modes, with a maxed out freighter, exosuit, 10 storage containers, and all the other slots on a ship....I just haven't felt the need to also fill out the cargo slots. It's a LOT of storage capacity available in the game at this point.