Looks like you gotta get yer thrusters hot and head out this way, I know a couple of very nice 2nd-hand ship salespeople who are aching to make you an offer on your latest rebuy...
Sugar-free with lots of caffiene, thanks
My buddy and I just learned the miracle of adding hull reinforcement to our ships.
I dropped my fuel scope, my other do-dads and loaded up on cheapo hull reinforcements and got the old gal from 126 to 995.
(The pile of cargo racks, and other ship internals left all over the landing pads at Ohm City are all mine)
My friend is like:
Wait, you ditched your fuel scope?
Well, if you aren't jumping you can fly for hours on 4 tonnes of fuel.
So we went out to hunt pirates and I'm facing this NPC and lo and behold I'm not
melting anymore.
Plus, my guardian plasma accelerators actually do damage to the other guy's ship!
I've not actually damaged another ship since starting the game 4 months ago.... it's like a miracle!
Long story even longer, these sorts of experiments are important - gotta learn the basics of theory crafting these ships.