Love the Hull B, but it highlights ongoing unnecessary friction in hauling gameplay.
While I love the design of the Hull B, and the diagonal grids definitely make it easier to load from the ground (and should be retrofitted on to the other Hull series ships *hint hint!*). It continues to highlight issues in the choices made by CIG in game design. It, like many other ships are a pain in the butt to load in hangars.
They get so close to fixing these issues, such as the moving tractor turret on the Hermes (Which was a feature that a lot of people loved in my understanding), where loading and unloading in hangars was a much easier task. But then we go back to square one with the Hull-B's tractor turret.
When one vehicle solves or improves an ongoing issue with a gameplay loop - These aren't "ship features" that can be sold as extras for one particular ship manufacturer or another, these are core gameplay improvements that need to be put out as standard. The hull-b should have had a tractor turret track along its centre axis and the ability to extend out from the hull slightly to improve visibility of the cargo grid.
While this is just one example, I feel this happens often where a gameplay loop is improved with the introduction of a vehicle feature, only for it to be limited to that vehicle. Whereas if they instead carried the lessons forward I feel like we would have a much more frictionless experience today overall.
Alternatively, and much more resource intensive solution, hangars need a total redesign to allow these ships to unload cargo, rotating my ship in the hangar (or purchasing a different ship! - I already have too many) shouldn't be the solution to everyday problems with gameplay loops
Also, please let us activate the cargo hangars from our Mobiglass, I'm also exiting the ship 3-4 times per load just to operate an elevator (I do recognise this issue is fairly new with the increased occurrences of ship tractor beams however... and made worse by the fact that I kept forgetting to bring the elevator UP after sending a cargo load down... because of course the cargo elevator capacity in medium hangers is smaller than the capacity of the Hull-B *internal screaming*)
Anyway, rant over. I do really love the Hull-b nonetheless.
*See above the optimal landing position to load and unload the Hull B