Ship shop ships pros and cons?

[pipvac]

Miner and budding builder seeking to upgrade from starter ship. Browsing the shiny new ships there's lots I don't fully understand yet.
Eg
Some so called cargo ships don't appear to have any storage
Frame looks like a suspension field but no clue how to use it, and why
Mining laser looks fun but ship did not appear to have cargo space
One or two have "scanners" but no clue how they work

Throwing credits at it and diving in is an option. But would prefer to understand more about what I'm buying.

Can anyone shed any light please?

Thank you.

 

[Verbatos]

There are a few different ways to hold ores other than just the basic cargo crates. Those being:
- Cargo lock frames (what you refer to as suspension fields)
https://wiki.starbasegame.com/index.php/Cargo_lock_frame
- As well as cargo beams
https://wiki.starbasegame.com/index.php/Cargo_beam

I know from memory that there are a few ships in the shops that you need to install your own crates onto as well, but the larger ones generally will have things come pre-installed, make sure to check the ship itself to see if you need to install any kind of storage option or if they already have them, ships usually have a little description box on the buy panel as well.

I am not a miner, so this information is mostly from memory, but you can always ask simple questions like this in the discord, notably the #alpha-discussion channel, you should be able to get answers to things like this fairly quickly!

 

[pipvac]

Thank you.