Exploraconda: Which upgrades?
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I have not tried both options myself, but I will give you my thoughts on the matter.
I don't feel that Dirty Drives (specifically on an Anaconda) are worth it if you are using the ship primarily for Exploration. If you did go Dirty Drives, you would almost certainly have to Engineer every other part of your ship possible to generate less heat. This would likely include using a larger Power Plant, and Engineering for Low Emissions (which would also likely reduce the power output), and I don't know if this would be enough to offset the heat from the Dirty Drives.
I would recommend the Clean Drives though, without hesitation. The only comparative downside is the performance difference, but on an Anaconda, that difference isn't really that large to begin with, in my opinion.
I hope that helps.
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I don't feel that Dirty Drives (specifically on an Anaconda) are worth it if you are using the ship primarily for Exploration. If you did go Dirty Drives, you would almost certainly have to Engineer every other part of your ship possible to generate less heat. This would likely include using a larger Power Plant, and Engineering for Low Emissions (which would also likely reduce the power output), and I don't know if this would be enough to offset the heat from the Dirty Drives.
I would recommend the Clean Drives though, without hesitation. The only comparative downside is the performance difference, but on an Anaconda, that difference isn't really that large to begin with, in my opinion.
I hope that helps.
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I would recommend dirty drives. You are going to be running underpowered thrusters anyway, which do not generate much heat or use much power and have a considerable downside to mitigate. Also clean drives use more power.
I once tested these with 6D thrusters and dirty drive tuning was 1% hotter in SC. There will be a bigger difference on planets but if you spend much time on the surface then dirty drive tuning is a must.
I once tested these with 6D thrusters and dirty drive tuning was 1% hotter in SC. There will be a bigger difference on planets but if you spend much time on the surface then dirty drive tuning is a must.
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In my experience, it's more than enough on an Anaconda. Dirty drives on smaller thrusters don't generate that much heat on it. I'd also recommend spamming the dirt cheap G1 Low Emissions power plants until you get a secondary effect that actually increases your power capacity slightly above stock. That way, the only downside you get is the smaller integrity.
However, getting an increased thermal load effect on your FSD will be noticeable. In that case, unless you have top-end results in optimized mass and/or a max fuel per jump effect, I'd recommend re-rolling.
But thankfully, the Anaconda generally has pretty good heat management, so you'd really have to go out of your way to have heat be a problem on an exploration build.
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Agreed. I'll just add one more thing - when engineer modding your exploration vessel, go for thrusters last, especially if you go for the "coolest possible" build and go for cleans, as they consume more power, so you'll want to be done with everything else so you know how much power you have left to play with. But as others have said, dirties won't raise your heat sig all that much on lower grade thrusters.
Also, and this is going off topic a bit, but for combat builds dirty drives are the way to go 99% of the time. Just in case you find the info useful
i run 6A clean-drive.
the difference is mostly around neutron stars, black holes and on high-G surfaces. i can't recommend dirty drive, if you plan on cruising above surface >2 G planets.