53.59ly from a Mandalay? Really?

[CMDR Rusty Dog]

From what I've heard, a fully engineered D-Rated Mandalay with Guardian FSD Booster and outfitted as you would expect an exploration ship to be, is around 53.59ly jump range. Is this right?
If so, then FDev have royally screwed up IMO.

Didn't they say it would be on par with or just beat the Anaconda? Did they mean stock?

 

[CMDR_UKmouse]

D-rated? I expect the A-rated version to be much better.

 

[Kzak]

From what I've heard, a fully engineered D-Rated Mandalay with Guardian FSD Booster and outfitted as you would expect an exploration ship to be, is around 53.59ly jump range. Is this right?
If so, then FDev have royally screwed up IMO.

Didn't they say it would be on par with or just beat the Anaconda? Did they mean stock?

Having seen Twitch streams today where the Mandalay was engineered up properly, the max seems to be around 85 LY jumprange or thereabouts.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Hmm, that's similar to my exploration Krait Phantom, which is also capable of bounty hunting in a Haz RES.

 

[HappyMoonMonkey]

Min maxed 84.11 laden 91.41ly unladen from Rainman currently.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Min maxed 84.11 laden 91.41ly unladen from Rainman currently.

Seems more like it. There's a big difference between an exploration ship with all the luxuries and trimmings to one that's optimised for range.

So while I actually do believe that 54 ly range is still an exploration build, that term can cover a lot of ways of building a ship.

 

[JonathanBurnage]

I have heard the hull mass is 230T - if this is so, the maximum jump range will be 91.53LY.

 

[CMDR Rusty Dog]

D-rated? I expect the A-rated version to be much better.

It's touted as an exploration ship. They are mainly D-rated. And if you A-rate, you lose MORE jump range. So I'm basing it on it being outfitted as an exploration vessel.

 

[CMDR Rusty Dog]

So these much higher jump ranges, are they due to many sacrifices such as no SRV's or shields?

 

[metatheurgist]

So one D-rates their FSD if they want range, that's nonsense.

 

[CMDR Rusty Dog]

So one D-rates their FSD if they want range, that's nonsense.

Haha! I never said that. Who did? Who does?? Don't be silly.

"They are mainly D-rated." - was the sentence. Notice the word 'mainly'.
Yeah I've only played for 9 years and I'm D-rating FSD's, haha. Please.

I'm assuming you know how to outfit a ship for exploration.

 

[metatheurgist]

Then it's up to you to provide the evidence that the range you stated is not from a D rated FSD. Otherwise this thread is pointless.

 

[CMDR Rusty Dog]

Then it's up to you to provide the evidence that the range you stated is not from a D rated FSD. Otherwise this thread is pointless.

It came from Ghost Giraffe's stream. He knows not to D-rate it too. I believe he also got it to 71 fully stripped out, which is also kinda pointless.
Stop being a troll man. Always attitude from someone on these forums.

 

[metatheurgist]

This speculation is as useful as the posts about the Mandalay's wings being too wide for an M-pad.

 

[Dragsham]

Well it'd be hilarious if the 1st cmdrs who got one whilst descending into a medium hangar, suddenly got flipped over or just plain jammed in the bay cos of the wings being too wide!

 

[metatheurgist]

Looks fine to me.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwO1Yhk5zbU&t=10s


All those posts about wings folding, chopping the wings off before release, mamba cockpit overlays, pics of measurements of pad size seem a bit unhinged now though.

 

[CMDR Rusty Dog]

This speculation is as useful as the posts about the Mandalay's wings being too wide for an M-pad.

What speculation? Some people have the Mandalay already and have the numbers.
I'm wondering now if you're confused a little.

 

[St0rmFury]

I'm guessing it's a D-rated FSD (SCO) which has the same optimised mass as an A-rated regular FSD, but 60% lighter.

 

[varonica]

FDEV have stated it will challenge and/or beat the Conda for jump range, since Conda's that achieve around 90ly jump range are basically stripped out paper arrows then it makes sense that to match the Conda jump range the Mandalay would need to do the same, that doesn't seem a problem to me. You can either strip everything and get a maxed out jump range or add a few essentials and get a decent jump range. 53.9ly jump range is less than my Type 6E, and that carries shields and a SRV, so either someone is doing their maths wrong or there's misunderstanding of what was being done in the stream!

 

[metatheurgist]

So get the exact details of the builds that go with those numbers. Until it's on coriolis or edsy where everyone can see them it's pointless speculation.