So my quest to find the ultimate Hauler continues. Last night, with the assistance of The Pilgrim Star Path I plotted my position in the Euclid galaxy and the positions of several known recently reported sightings of S-Class 48/8 Fan-In-Wing Haulers (thanks Reddit!) and started dropping through Black Holes. The object is to arrive on the other side of a Black Hole and find myself close enough to one of the reported positions that I can then standard warp over to it (so I need to land within 20 jumps or so of a hauler position). So far the closest I’ve come is 58 jumps away…not quite good enough.
I did run into a very interesting looking 48-slot A-Class Hauler on my hunt though. It was one of the ones with the row of orb storage units under each wing. The ship was reddish-brown (rust color?) and the storage orbs GLOWED with blue LED light. It was night when it landed, and it looked pretty impressive. I failed to take a picture or log coordinates because it was late and I was tired, but this morning I was checking out Reddit and discovered “Glowing Baller Haulers” are pretty sought after, so I wish I’d at least logged the coordinates to share with others. =(
I also did some more digging into my missing base situation, and it is indeed completely gone. It’s like the 1.58 Update obliterated the planet my base was on, as it simply doesn’t exist anymore. I wonder if it got turned into one of the planets being used for the community event? I’m just going to have to cross my fingers that it was archived and that when I build a new base somewhere else all the items will come back when I restore the base or rebuild the storage containers. It’s not that important to me right now, but eventually I will really want all those resources back.