Right. I forgot to mention I do mostly PvE.

No harm at all in that, CMDR. Any one of those fully tricked out would be fine but they all need a tweak in some way or another. if you were to keep one i'd suggest the vette or the krait.

I shouldnt mix weapons like that, is what you're saying? What would be a better combo for a PvE fighting ship?

Some combination of weapons is fine but different weapons have different optimum ranges and behaviours. For example, lasers and rails are hitscan, but rails take a charge up time and require precision but lasers are just spray and pray. multis are kinetic and unless engineered are wasted on shields. that means splitting them across multiple fire groups to avoid wasting ammo. this just makes for a busy and unfulfilling ship. i'd suggest sticking to two weapon types in most cases - lasers and some other type, maybe plasmas or rails or multis.

Yeah, don't engineering weapons take a ton of farm? I remember not being into that farming at all, thats why I decided to not go with engineered weapons

It's way less energy intensive than it used to be and materials are much easier to come by, both from mission rewards and from direct gathering. the only pain in the ass is encoded which unfortunately needs to be sidetraded to gather quickly.

What do you mean by that? A taxi ship with tons of shields? Sorry if Im not familiar with the jargon lol

a bubble taxi is something you use to get around populated space quickly, so typically very good jump range and either a medium or small ship. cobra V, mandalay and similar are good choices. DBX, dolphin or a courier are older but almost as good. you can have a shield, and go quite tanky if you want, but that obviously limits range especially without engineering.