Ship Builds & Load Outs DBX build, constructive advice requested and welcomed

[Reverend TZW]

O7 Commanders.

So, I've been van-driving, mainly for the Empire but not pledged, I'm 75% through Knight rank and I'm beginning to think that I don't want to be a van-driver anymore.

I've put together a DBX build, but I don't have the faintest idea about exploring, other than treading boldly, hopefully, where no one's trod boldly before.

https://coriolis.io/outfit/diamondb...-32v440f32f.Iw1-kA==.Aw1-kA==?bn=Faraway Eyes

Any constructive advice or comments are really welcome, especially regarding fuel-scooping. I want to shuffle off after I make my next rank, which should give me some time to plan a route.......which I also know nothing about.

TIA

 

[goemon]

here is a good thread on outfitting exploration ships: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/219633-How-to-build-exploration-ships

i anyway recommend a visit of the exploration subforum

commenting your build:

- ship choice. many will tell you that there are better exploration ships than the DBE. they are right. i neverthelss fly my DBE for any distance below <15 k because i love it. just have in mind, you could outfit an AspE or t6 with that money, which would perform better.

- no need for extra fueltanks. the DBE can make 6,4 jumps on a full tank. exploring with 4,5 is very comfortable, i mainly fly on 4 full tanks, and racers reduce it happily to 3 or 2 jumps.

- you want a detailed surface scanner if you go out exploring. beside getting additional info, you want the extra payout from that.

- no need for a-class sensors, a class life-support. -> d-class

- the DBE isn't fast, a class thrusters and a class powerdistributor won't help you to survive. -> d-class

- weapons have no defensive value in ED, besides (debateable) mines or one small turreted weapon. i personally would get rid of them for an exploration trip.

- depending on distance, you have to decide between 2 srvs and a d-class shield. it sucks to loose ones srv 15 k ly from the last station ---- on the other hand, if you drive carefully, you won't loose one.

- fit the smalles powerplant that can power your ship, and turn all unnecessary moduls off.

- return from your trip via a high security system at the edge of the bubble, to minimize any risk to be attacked.

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things would look differently, if you plan on engineering your ship. but if you don't, here is a suggested build: https://coriolis.io/outfit/diamondb...AwRjNc0jKA==.Aw1-kA==?bn=Faraway Eyes Comment

 

[Reverend TZW]

Thanks for that.

I've done a few more missions since then and earned a few more credits, so I'm docked at a station that stocks Asp E's and just playing with a build that'll allow me to carry on doing what I'm doing for a little while but with higher profits. Might as well, since I'm so near to ranking-up.

I really need to read up on exploration and study the galaxy map a little bit more. I discovered something quite embarrassing to myself the other night when I zoomed right out.........I've been going the wrong way, apparently <facepalm>.