Hey guys, so I've played about 160 hours, I'm no veteran but I've got a solid feel for the game, and I'm running into this issue that just doesn't seem to have an answer.
Everywhere I look online, people say the Diamondback Explorer is supposed to be the BEST ship in terms of heat management. I see people saying "I can practically sit in a star's corona to fuel scoop and never overheat." and that's nice and all, but not AT ALL the experience I'm having.
So I bought a DBX with the intention of making it my new deep-space ship. Previously, I'd used a Dolphin to do a passenger mission 17,000 lightyears toward the center of the galaxy. The Dolphin had been stripped down to its bare parts, with the smallest and lightest weight modules possible to give it a long jump range, and the smallest class A power plant I could fit on the thing. I haven't unlocked much for engineering, so I just used stock parts, but I was able to make the journey in about 5 days, averaging around 30LY per jump.
The reason this^^^ is relevant is because my method for long flights is to drop in on a star, fly as close to it as possible with my 4A fuel scoop, while using my discovery scanner, throttle back for just a couple of seconds to check the FSS, and (if there's nothing worth scanning) immediately throttle back up and activate the FSD. With the dolphin, my temperature never goes above 65% even while launching the FSD as close to a star as I can go. I tried doing this same method with my diamondback (similarly stripped down) for a 20KLY passenger job, and had to instantly abandon the mission because I found that activating my FSD next to a star causes my temperatures to IMMEDIATELY go critical. I wont survive a 40KLY round trip if my temps go critical at every single star. At first I had a 4A PP, then I read online somewhere that a smaller PP is better, so I exchanged for a 2A PP, and nothing has changed.
So the question is, why is everyone else's experience with this so much different than mine? What am I doing wrong? Or is everyone just wrong about the DBX being good with temps?
Everywhere I look online, people say the Diamondback Explorer is supposed to be the BEST ship in terms of heat management. I see people saying "I can practically sit in a star's corona to fuel scoop and never overheat." and that's nice and all, but not AT ALL the experience I'm having.
So I bought a DBX with the intention of making it my new deep-space ship. Previously, I'd used a Dolphin to do a passenger mission 17,000 lightyears toward the center of the galaxy. The Dolphin had been stripped down to its bare parts, with the smallest and lightest weight modules possible to give it a long jump range, and the smallest class A power plant I could fit on the thing. I haven't unlocked much for engineering, so I just used stock parts, but I was able to make the journey in about 5 days, averaging around 30LY per jump.
The reason this^^^ is relevant is because my method for long flights is to drop in on a star, fly as close to it as possible with my 4A fuel scoop, while using my discovery scanner, throttle back for just a couple of seconds to check the FSS, and (if there's nothing worth scanning) immediately throttle back up and activate the FSD. With the dolphin, my temperature never goes above 65% even while launching the FSD as close to a star as I can go. I tried doing this same method with my diamondback (similarly stripped down) for a 20KLY passenger job, and had to instantly abandon the mission because I found that activating my FSD next to a star causes my temperatures to IMMEDIATELY go critical. I wont survive a 40KLY round trip if my temps go critical at every single star. At first I had a 4A PP, then I read online somewhere that a smaller PP is better, so I exchanged for a 2A PP, and nothing has changed.
So the question is, why is everyone else's experience with this so much different than mine? What am I doing wrong? Or is everyone just wrong about the DBX being good with temps?