Anyone know how long a canopy will last once it has been compromised? I accidentally hit the windows key instead of X after exiting a jump and faceplanted into a class A giant... DERP
canopy health...
- Thread starter Snafu Manchu
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If you just have cracks in the screen essentially forever.
You have to have several emergency drops before it shatters fully.
Can't upload a picture apparently, but theres like 3 levels of cracked canopy before it blows out entirely..
You have to have several emergency drops before it shatters fully.
Can't upload a picture apparently, but theres like 3 levels of cracked canopy before it blows out entirely..
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Sweet thanks. It just cracked and I am in the Core with tons of data and I will be systematically pulling my hair out on follicle at a time if I lose it because I pressed the damn windows key by accident ha ha
Hah, glad to hear it's just a flesh wound
That makes two of us mate. I read your post and though for a moment that I had 7 minutes before my glass was gone and my life support had to kick in!
Found the image here. This was as bad as my ASP got on my trip. I think that was 7 emergency drops but most at low speeds.
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I cracked the one on my Cobra on the other side of the core and made it home safely after a few thousand more systems (initially thought about just heading home ASAP then realised it wasn't necessary). I think Erimus may have cracked his on his Asp whilst still around 65,000 LY from home and he also made it back.
Kind of hard to see, but I can make out the cracks. Mine are chipped by comparison thankfully.
Don't think Autoglass do call-outs to space no matter how good you're insurance is. Nearest station is very very far away so not option at the moment, not till I've at least scanned Sag A. Does the repair subsystem fix the cockpit along with the modules? It's going on the ship in the next round of upgrades.
Yeah, sorry, it was a quick and dirty screenshot on my way back to a station!
Sadly repair units do not fix powerplant, canopy and hull. They are great for repairing your discovery scanner though which is a nightmare if it breaks at 10,000Ly away from home
For some reason this reminded me of that old Mars rover bit from Big Bang Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-goo0gEqMw
This happened to me once out of shear stupidity. It was on a test flight of a brand new Asp, just before I took her on her first big expedition. First I decided to check something on a forum while making a jump, great idea there right?. Got back in just in time to observe the emergency stop, looking at my ship taking some damage. So I thought, fine, I never used this new AFMU, let's see how that works. I managed to supercruise away from the star without taking additional damage thanks to having heatsinks. Then the real bonehead move on my part came; decided to initiate repairs on the FSD drive while in supercruise, don't remember how fast I was going but I think it must have been about 5-10c. In my defense, I never used AFMU before. Still, could have assumed it would shut down the FSD, which it promptly did, causing another unsafe deceleration, this time cracking my canopy. I was only about 100ly from the bubble, so 3 jumps later I was at a starport doing repairs, laughing at my own stupidity. The real expedition started the next day, and that went, and is still going, much smoother. Live and learn, live being the operative word here
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Been there & got the T-shirt...you only do that once....i hope
Just started my first "long range" expedition, without testing the AFMU first. 6000LY out, I did exactly that, but fortunately managed to only damage my power plant and life support by 1% each. Seriously need t-shirts for that.
This happened to me once out of shear stupidity. It was on a test flight of a brand new Asp, just before I took her on her first big expedition. First I decided to check something on a forum while making a jump, great idea there right?. Got back in just in time to observe the emergency stop, looking at my ship taking some damage. So I thought, fine, I never used this new AFMU, let's see how that works. I managed to supercruise away from the star without taking additional damage thanks to having heatsinks. Then the real bonehead move on my part came; decided to initiate repairs on the FSD drive while in supercruise, don't remember how fast I was going but I think it must have been about 5-10c. In my defense, I never used AFMU before. Still, could have assumed it would shut down the FSD, which it promptly did, causing another unsafe deceleration, this time cracking my canopy. I was only about 100ly from the bubble, so 3 jumps later I was at a starport doing repairs, laughing at my own stupidity. The real expedition started the next day, and that went, and is still going, much smoother. Live and learn, live being the operative word here
Nice read
Well done for doing a test run. Many people don't and have that problem at about 2,000Ly away from a station Nice read
Yea, it wasn't just that it was a new ship, also head equipment like AFMU and heat sinks I hadn't used before, so I felt like I wanted to get to know her with all the new bells and whistles before venturing out too far. Another thing I've learned is to only have one heatsink on in the modules power management panel (if using multiple), because I've assigned a shortcut for those and it pretty much fires heatsinks from all active units when activated. I do remember shield cell banks behaving the same way..
But yea, test run aside, I'm currently well over 4k ly out, getting close to the jellyfish nebula, and never had any further incidents, so I guess the test run paid off