As an ex-submariner, "silent running" has great appeal to me. I've been playing around with different builds and configurations and flight practices to maximize my time in SR, but I'm starting to wonder if it's still viable in the latest update. It used to be that when I switched to SR when approaching a station, the ATC would get excited and say something like, "Where did you go, CMDR? You've disappeared from our scopes!" I've not heard anything like this since 3.3 dropped, and I'm still being scanned even when in SR.
Related, but slightly different, it also appears that SR or running cold (heatsinks, thermal vent) no longer breaks an NPC's target lock on our ships. Can anyone confirm? I'm assuming this is a bug in the AI. How about PvP - while I'm sure the experts know ways to negate Silent and Cold Running, are you at least seeing the desired effect of target lock break?
And finally, I've read somewhere that different ships have different "noticeability" when it comes to evading scans, regardless of SR. It's always been my assumption that a small ship like a Viper would be less detectable than a huge ship like a Type-9 (cold or not, a Type-9 is hard to miss), but then Frontier implied that the Krait was a good smuggling ship, and it's not what I'd call "tiny".
Dive, dive, dive into this thread my smuggling friends, and tell me what's happening with Silent Running in 3.3
Related, but slightly different, it also appears that SR or running cold (heatsinks, thermal vent) no longer breaks an NPC's target lock on our ships. Can anyone confirm? I'm assuming this is a bug in the AI. How about PvP - while I'm sure the experts know ways to negate Silent and Cold Running, are you at least seeing the desired effect of target lock break?
And finally, I've read somewhere that different ships have different "noticeability" when it comes to evading scans, regardless of SR. It's always been my assumption that a small ship like a Viper would be less detectable than a huge ship like a Type-9 (cold or not, a Type-9 is hard to miss), but then Frontier implied that the Krait was a good smuggling ship, and it's not what I'd call "tiny".
Dive, dive, dive into this thread my smuggling friends, and tell me what's happening with Silent Running in 3.3