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Newcomer / Intro Thrusters Offline... Now What?
- Thread starter Folly
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Right panel - Functions - Reboot and repair - limp to the nearest port
Yep, that's the one.
Good luck Commander!
Good on you. Now remember to post a screenshot for when you do limp to station.
On a related note...
I'm still a bit confused as to what your actual "engines" are in ED.
At first I thought upgrading my power plant would make my ship go faster and that upgrading my thrusters would make my ship more maneuverable.
And then started to think that the power plant just generated electrical (?) energy and assumed that the "thrusters" included ALL the ship's propulsion systems - maneuvering thrusters, main propulsion system and booster.
However, I've noticed that in combat I can have my "thrusters" go offline but I still seem to have propulsion and I'm pretty sure I can still boost cos when I'm taking enough damage to knock systems offline my normal response is to boost to put some distance between myself and my attacker and then jump to supercruise.
So, what ship system provides what function? What system supplies the main propulsion and which system provides the booster with thrust?
Writing this, I guess the easiest way to find out would be to disable thrusters manually and see what happens.
I assume I'll lose directional control of my ship but will I also lose main propulsion and boosters too?
I'm still a bit confused as to what your actual "engines" are in ED.
At first I thought upgrading my power plant would make my ship go faster and that upgrading my thrusters would make my ship more maneuverable.
And then started to think that the power plant just generated electrical (?) energy and assumed that the "thrusters" included ALL the ship's propulsion systems - maneuvering thrusters, main propulsion system and booster.
However, I've noticed that in combat I can have my "thrusters" go offline but I still seem to have propulsion and I'm pretty sure I can still boost cos when I'm taking enough damage to knock systems offline my normal response is to boost to put some distance between myself and my attacker and then jump to supercruise.
So, what ship system provides what function? What system supplies the main propulsion and which system provides the booster with thrust?
Writing this, I guess the easiest way to find out would be to disable thrusters manually and see what happens.
I assume I'll lose directional control of my ship but will I also lose main propulsion and boosters too?
If you mean "things that make my ship move" then it's thrusters, otherwise called drives, on some target lists. Powerplant will make you go faster only if you install a lighter one.
Yeah, that's the conclusion I arrived at too.
That being the case, though, how come I CAN still boost when my thrusters are offline?
I'm certain that happened to me a couple of days ago. I got the "thrusters offline" message during combat, verified that I had no directional control and then boosted a couple of times before going into supercruise.
So what provides the "boost" if your thrusters provide ALL the propulsion for your ship?
Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
Well if the thrusters are properly destroyed or offline, you CAN'T do anything. The ship will either stay still or move uncontrollably in the last vector you gave her.
But the "thrusters offline" message is just a warning, it can mean a short malfunction. Something like: "thrusters were unable to finish pervious operation"
Once your thrusters'health is under 50%, it happens quite often, actually.
Hmm...
Definitely going to have a play with that tonight to verify it all.
Only other thing is, I was probably in my Vulture when it happened so I suppose the thrusters could've gone offline momentarily due to lack of power and then come back online again before I tried to boost.
The Vulture being what it is, I've noticed that my FSD keeps on cutting in and out as a result of iffy power distribution. Maybe something caused that to affect the booster too?