This after engineering? (think we posted at the same time) ^
New ship: Gutamaya Corsair
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I think its bugged
Because nothing Im doing is actually changing the speed from 565, including swapping out the unengineered thrusters for G5 DDs and Light weighting the Reactive Armor.
That would be quite strange. As far as I know, the "optimal mass" stat of the thrusters is what affects the speed of the ship, and the smaller the ship's mass is compared to that thrusters' "optimal mass", the faster it is.
6A thrusters have an optimal mass of 1440, and 7A thrusters that of 2160. If the ship's mass remains the same (except for the extra 40 tons added by the bigger thrusters), there should be a noticeable difference in speed. If there isn't, then there's something else going on here.
That definitely seems off, with 7A DD and Drag the thing should be pushing close to 700. I know a couple streams I saw it max at 600 either empty of fully loaded which also seems wrong. The clipper is faster and it's supposed to be an improvement
Isn't the corsair quite a bit lighter then the clipper, the clipper can only fit size 6, weighs more and its significantly faster?
Look at the minimum thruster mass. It’s really really high for a ship this size. You can pile mass into this ship and still get maximum thruster performance. That’s why the speed isn’t changing. Optimal thruster mass is just where the performance curve takes a turn for the worse.
Maybe somebody can load their Corsair full of cargo and put it to the test.
I agree but would think the top speed should be higher, I can pretty much max out a clipper for weight in fitting and still hit over 600 and that's only a 6A
Politely requesting a ship build expert to come in and explain in more eloquent terms, but:
The way I understand it, the minimum mass stat of a thruster is the total ship mass value up to which you get increased performance by reducing it (the mass). Reduce the mass beyond than the minimum mass and it won't amount to anything, the thrusters are already performing at their absolute best.
The C7 slot on the Corsair seems to serve only one purpose: as long as the ship's mass is anyway much lower or around the minimum mass, to keep the same performance (i.e. speed) even if that mass would slightly increase (say.... by getting some unexpected cargo... as a result of an unexpected .... almost corsair-y activity?..)
Well some ships have weird stats and the Clipper is one of them. Without comparing two separate ships, it's still not right that using 7A thrusters which is supposed to be a feature of the Corsair will actually nerf it.
7A Thruster G5 DD. With 288t cargo I travel at 473(4 pips to engines) and boost to 599m/s
Maxing out a Clipper (on Coriolis) give about 571 so it's a bit faster but that is a 6A DD and heaver ship as well, would think that 7 would give a bit more but I don't understand elite math anyhow
I re-checked Cmdr Mechan's stream he did in the test servers with the preview ship, and it didn't seem to ever go above 599 m/s either.
So perhaps it's not a bug?
But those are the unloaded figures. Has anyone actually tried to load the Clipper with cargo then do a speed test?
It doesn't really matter, it should be at least as fast as an iClipper (640ish) with less hull and one size bigger thrusters. It isn't.
What do we learn about it? Never trust FD doing something right.
No that's loaded, I used fuel tanks which apply the full weight to them on Coriolis. It really should have a better top end if light weighted
Even using 6A Thrusters G5 DD is good, Carrying 288t cargo 465ms(4 pips) max boost 588m/s.
specs: max speed 473 : 600m/s
pitch/roll/yaw : 43.91 : 135.12 : 16.89
Jump 42.87 : 67.18 : 71.43
cargo cap : 288t
shield strength 215.8