I understand that the Mauds were the best for cargo before the Moths, but now they are rarely used due to the high levels needed to get them and you can get Moths at same or lower levels.

Valent Marauder Rev B - 56 cu at levels 8/-/-/13/-
Uit Marauder - 48 cu at levels -/-/-/8/4
Centaur 3 - 44 cu at levels 2/1/4/5/-
Behemoth -120 cu at levels -/-/-/8/4

Why are the levels still so high for Mauds? They can fill a need for newer players if the levels were dropped down to at least the level or Centaur or even lower. Why would anyone even want to fly the Valet Maud at those levels?

Suggest:
Valent Maud - 56 cu at levels -/-/-/4/-
UIT Maud -48 cu at levels -/-/-/3/-

or better still increase the cargo capacity of both to around 65 cu so they would fit in between the Centaurs and the Lite Moths - but do change the levels needed to those I suggested.

Vetoed! I'm the only one flying the Rev B and I want it to stay that way.
I don't care about the UIT version, so go ahead :)

+1

I would cap the Valent model at 4/0/0/4/0 and the UIT at 0/0/0/3/3.

I would just increase the cargo or improve the engines on them to make them a more attractive ship choice for high-level players.

Or better still, allow marauders to expand their cargo capacity using externally attachable modules. As discussed in several previous topics

Like it is actually all that hard to reach those levels. I fly a maud all the time:

Tunguska Maud Miner FTW! (60cu, 2L 1s)

dual MegaPosis + cargo scanner = best Arklan killa for SSS and Avalon farming.

+1 to Meridian

Conflict Diamond:

Hmm, I should work on my Tunguska standing and stop killing people there so I have access to that awesome maud.

Cargo scanner? I didn't know it's useful for bots. Can you really tell which ones will drop Avalons with it?

The devs should really take a look at the plausibility of Meridian's suggestion. If it weren't that difficult to implement, it should be added. VO needs more little perks like this. Addons that increase cargo size would be incredibly awesome.

"Cargo scanner? I didn't know it's useful for bots. Can you really tell which ones will drop Avalons with it?"

Probably not. I could be wrong, but I don't think Avalons are carried as cargo. They do carry SSS as cargo though, so the cargo scanner is useful when farming SSS.