Newcomer / Intro Class A equipment confusion?

avidhunter

A
I'll try my best to make a long story as short as possible...

Had a Viper all class B with pulse lasers and cannons (all gimbaled), wanted to get it to all class A with beam lasers and class A modules for bounty hunting. I did the math it was going to cost me about 7 million.

I bought a hauler and geared it up and headed off (about 200ly) to do rare trading. I got upgraded to a Cobra for better runs and then got a type 6 after that...after a long painful grind made 10 million and headed home to my Viper.

Put all class A equipment on the Viper was psyched and then realized I was over spending on my power allotment. I had to get rid of the indictor, and the shield cells, down grade the warrant scanner and the wake scanner. I can get rid of the wake scanner because without an indictor it's useless. I was still over spending! I then had to downgrade main components because the class A power supply was not enough to have all class A parts!

... am I doing something wrong? I honestly I'm #$%&* off and don't understand why we can't take a craft and gear it out will all the best equipment. I'm so disappointed.

Please don't tell me to just get the cobra back it's better anyways. I like my viper. Besides I'm now concerned that if I did sell the viper and get the Cobra back how do I know the same thing won't happen with that.
 

mistohise

mistohise
I can't comment on the specifics of the Viper, but generally speaking you can manage with an under-supply. Assign non-combat items like the fsd lower priority in the module list and they will be disabled when you go for hardpoints.

I assume you had the A class power supply in the largest size for the ship?
 

avidhunter

A
mistohise said:
I can't comment on the specifics of the Viper, but generally speaking you can manage with an under-supply. Assign non-combat items like the fsd lower priority in the module list and they will be disabled when you go for hardpoints.

I assume you had the A class power supply in the largest size for the ship?
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Yeah I have the class A/3 power supply.

The problem is (If I remember, it was last night) it's even over spent on power un-deployed. I can't even leave the station with all class A equipment.

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Midian Cabal said:
I love my kitted Viper, and yes, you're doing something wrong, namely power management. :)

Read more here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108597&highlight=power+modules
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So your Viper is all class A? Can you list your build? That would make me feel so much better and subside the anger :)


Ohh that's ad interesting link... thanks I'll give that a good read. I was really hopping I was missing something. I would be seriously disappointed in the game design it we couldn't twink out a craft.
 

kneg

kneg
you could also try to use low power consumption weapons, the A-class Viper is already over the max of the A3 power plant with multicannons.

However, with multicannons, you can disable some functions as described above and off you go.
 
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