Who can fly the Yacht? Is gunboat turret mounting an error?

[Zeb Harley]

I did try out the Yacht on a Freelancer character to ship around some Vips. The ship is really fitting in RP for this task. But in the meantime I actually have been pirated a few times which usually does not happen to me on other ships and I have to say:

The double CM is not positioned right. Whenever a CD hits the Countermeasure, it is always near the engine. So you will be stopped by any CD regardless if the CD hits your engine or the CM right beneath the engine.

I have found no use for the GB-turret hardpoint. The turret mounted there fires only to the front. All projectile speeds on GB-turrets have different speeds than transport-turret-projectiles. If you use a BG-turret there you will not be able to hit fighters with any gun effectively. I tried that out in Connecticut. Even a light fighter can waste you easily due to your bad turning.

The Yacht has too few transport turrets to defend itself.

The Powercore is too weak for GB-missiles / Razors / Pulseguns (I tried that, they did not work then. You say they do now?)

The faster impulse speed has no positive effect. How often do you use impulse-speed anyway?

I dumped the Yacht in favor of an Armored transport.

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for those who missed it: the moral of it all is ----> traders with teeth are fun for pirates. - within reason.