Yes that sounds like the efficient way to do it.
So instead I might try K Olley’s approach and make up some swap units for my least used ships.
Any point in keeping Sirius FSDs?
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So instead I might try K Olley’s approach and make up some swap units for my least used ships.
Most cmdrs that switch between activities on a regular basis will want their ships outfitted with the SCO. Whether its exploration (travelling to secondary systems +10,000LS away), trade and passenger missions, bounty hunting, or AX Titan bombing 8,000 LS from the primary. The new SCO drive is definitely preferable. The effort in updating a batch of 5 ships with SCO is very close to updating just 1. That is why I recommend doing it in batches.
Certainly their is no point in updating a ship's FSD if you never fly that ship anymore. If you are just keeping it for nostalgia. Or an off chance you might want it in a year or two.
Not pay-to-win. Credits are earned by playing the game. Unlike Arx, credits can't (legitimately) be bought with real world money. May as well say a corvette is pay-to-win because it costs more credits than a Sidewinder.
Who knows, maybe one day they will add engineering support for adding SCO capability to the Sirius drives (including the double engineered ones).
There would probably be little point in adding SCO to the normal Sirius drives (because they have a smaller jump range), but if the capability could be added to a double-engineered FSD, now that would be something.
There would probably be little point in adding SCO to the normal Sirius drives (because they have a smaller jump range), but if the capability could be added to a double-engineered FSD, now that would be something.
Mark my words, one day we're gonna find out that the humans who were rescued from the Titans and the technology in the SCO drive are going to combine in a way that gives us a very bad day...
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I'm not going to bother replacing my already G5 engineered FSDs with SCO versions, then enginner those to G5.
What I have done instead is engineer 1 each of C4,5 & 6 SCO drives so I can swap them in if I feel like it.
Naturally the P2 & T8, to date, have fully enginered drives.
I really don't see the point in doing the whole fleet!
What I have done instead is engineer 1 each of C4,5 & 6 SCO drives so I can swap them in if I feel like it.
Naturally the P2 & T8, to date, have fully enginered drives.
I really don't see the point in doing the whole fleet!
Best part is that on some of my small ships where I'm going for maximum weight saving, an unengineered SCO FSD outperforms a g5 increased range normal FSD in jump range.
Really can't be bothered going through 38 ships and getting SCO drives for them then engineering them. I'll just stick to having them in the new ships, which at the end of the day, behave a lot better with SCO drives anyway.
I have switched only my most used ships to the new Ludicrous Speed Drives (sco fsd's). I keep a few G5'd new FSD spares (sizes 3, 4, 5, 6) in my module storage. Remembering to switch around as needed, will be easy enough
I still want Sirius to fight back somehow for this. Maybe they buy out via friendly means or perhaps unfriendly means the new drive owners. Or perhaps they invent their own competing drive.
New Sirius Drive: Jump to any star in any system. So new FSD, jump to new system first, honk second, see other stars, target non primary star and can charge and jump to it...
I still want Sirius to fight back somehow for this. Maybe they buy out via friendly means or perhaps unfriendly means the new drive owners. Or perhaps they invent their own competing drive.
New Sirius Drive: Jump to any star in any system. So new FSD, jump to new system first, honk second, see other stars, target non primary star and can charge and jump to it...
I keep a few to have on hand in case the titan tech becomes a liability
And Sirius could release a updated drive that regains the lead for jump range, perhaps. But I don't think that relates to keeping the old ones.
If you could engineer the old ones to be smokeless ashtrays in the cabin..
That's essentially how I've done it. Plus doing the missions using the AFK method so I just walk off and leave it to get on with it. As other responders have said: to gamers, time is precious
CG drives have a two second boot time, so they may be useful on AX rescue ships. ECM seems a bit hit and miss, so the faster boot could help escaping Hunters.
I did a Thargoid run earlier this year with a CG FSD, when shut down it took as long to come back up as a normal drive.
I would be interested to hear if this happened to anyone else.
The old FSDs might be useful when Sirius finds a way to make the new ones go boom. In this case Sirius would be very "sad" that Achilles took "shortcuts" with their "reckless" engineering, preferring "profit over safety" and selling drives with an "Achilles' heel".