I'm in the habit of leaving specialized ships in different places around the bubble for particular purposes, which is probably something many commanders are familiar with. I'll often ship a bubble taxi from place to place for convenience. My taxi is currently a DBX (~74 LY range), but shipping costs for it were annoyingly high so I designed a new one - a Hauler.
The Hauler gets a touch over 63 LY, but doesn't have any shields. I've run into this issue where when it launches from stations I immediately get the "hull integrity compromised" warning. I'm assuming this is because the minor damage you get from launching (after rounding) is a large enough fraction of the haulers total hull that it exceeds the triggering threshold for this warning.
The simplest way of doing this seems to be to add small shield, but that either means increasing the rating of the Power Plant to compensate or to disable the Power Distributor and Cargo Hatch.
Questions:
Is there any other way to suppress this warning? After all, the damage is minor and I wouldn't lose a couple of LY of range.
What are the drawbacks to disabling the power distributor? I'm thinking for this use case almost none - but I could be missing something
The Hauler gets a touch over 63 LY, but doesn't have any shields. I've run into this issue where when it launches from stations I immediately get the "hull integrity compromised" warning. I'm assuming this is because the minor damage you get from launching (after rounding) is a large enough fraction of the haulers total hull that it exceeds the triggering threshold for this warning.
The simplest way of doing this seems to be to add small shield, but that either means increasing the rating of the Power Plant to compensate or to disable the Power Distributor and Cargo Hatch.
Questions:
Is there any other way to suppress this warning? After all, the damage is minor and I wouldn't lose a couple of LY of range.
What are the drawbacks to disabling the power distributor? I'm thinking for this use case almost none - but I could be missing something