Elite dangerous Best ships

1.How many people play elite dangerous?
2.What are your favorite/best ships?
3.What is your money making strategy?

according to steamcharts, there are ~4k playing through steam today. but, that doesnt account for people who are playing directly off the launcher (as in didnt buy if off of steam) and all of the console players. im loving the corvette, a-rated it and had some light engineering done to it. whenever i need credits i just do passenger missions from ceos to sirius atmospherics in sothis. I know that robigo to sothis is more profitable but i cba to buy another ship cause robigo mining has the best payouts.

Best ship for what? :D You can't bounty hunting with a Beluga. But best TANK facebreaker ship is a Federal Corvette, no need skills just a grind party.
How many people? I have a Hungarian cmmunity with a lot of friends, about 500+ player, and its just a shithole country

best ships gotta include
Anaconda
Federal Corevtte
Imperial Cutter
Vulture

I loved my Python, Anaconda and Dolphin. For money I used to do lots long-range tourist missions with a Dolphin but now I mainly shred people in HazRes as I slowly grind my way up to a Corvette.