dirty drive or clean drive for the corvette ?

CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
Hello CMDR,

For the corvette owner, which one do you use ? i'm a little bit worried with the heat in the corvette as i'm supposed it will fry pretty fast like the conda (i'm 80% post commander so this week i will buy the vette.)

it's for a PVE build as i prefer smaller ship for PVP

Also do you run prismatic, bi-weave or regular shield ? (i will use thermal resistance with fast charge (probably))

I want to use thermal shock on my weapon to spread some heat (at least 1 because i think you can't stack the effect)

HERE is the build, what do you think ? (i'm still going to need to work on my credit balance :))

Thanks o7
 

Screemonster

Screemonster
Under most circumstances, unless you're running a low emissions powerplant, the extra power consumption from clean drives will end up producing enough passive heat to cancel the benefits over dirty drives, and dirties give you better benefits.

As for the prismatic versus biweave argument, that really depends on the kinds of fights you intend to take it into. For bounty hunting and massacre missions in conflict zones and other extended engagements where you're moving rapidly from one target to the next, I normally go with biweaves all the way. For things like assassinations where you're going to take on a single target (or a limited number) I rock the prismatics. Same for trade ships, slap a prismatic in them since you're hopefully not going to be in combat long enough for the regen rate to matter.

Thermal shock doesn't reduce your heat, you're thinking of thermal vent which is a beam laser mod, and it does stack. I run four ventbeams on my FDL and my windows are constantly icing up in combat.
 

CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
Thanks for the feedback, i'm scared to hear "warning, taking heat damage" everytime i blow up something [noob]

you're right i mixed thermal shock and thermal vent
thermal vent actually heat up the target which is useless in PVE but does not reduce my heat signature.

thanks o7
 

Screemonster

Screemonster
The corvette isn't really a ship that suffers from heat problems. Maybe if you're running a lot of lasers or PAs but a multicannon build isn't likely to overheat. Even with incendiary rounds on my mediums I don't even reach 80% very often.
 

Ted Striker

Ted Striker
My vette currently runs dirty drives, 2 huge beams (efficient), 2 medium beams (efficient), 1 large long range pulse and 2 small long range pulse. No experimental on any laser. It has no heat issues. I've emptied the capacitor firing all lasers nonstop and haven't overheated. I think you have to work at a build to make that ship overheat.
 

rhiz

rhiz
Ted Striker said:
My vette currently runs dirty drives, 2 huge beams (efficient), 2 medium beams (efficient), 1 large long range pulse and 2 small long range pulse. No experimental on any laser. It has no heat issues. I've emptied the capacitor firing all lasers nonstop and haven't overheated. I think you have to work at a build to make that ship overheat.
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I have a similar build to Ted. I can fire all day without issue 99% of the time - the only time I overheat is when fighting in Compromised Nav Beacons close to the star, and then only moderately so, easily manageable.
 

mikekim

mikekim
my current Vette https://s.orbis.zone/10j6

can sit at a compromised nav all day with no issues.

all the small lasers are gimballed the big 2 are fixed (combats chaff)

as per heat... i've actually had my temps in single figures due to thermal vent on targets. no issues from the Dirty drives..
 

Rowander

Rowander
Earth Pilots had it right on the 20th century: "Speed is life" they said. Dirty drives makes your ships faster, nibler, keeps your weapons on target and your ship outside the enemy's sights. That's more useful than having to sacrifice a couple of energy weapons in your build.

For me, dirty drives is a must in every ship that's going to see some form of combat.
 

Bigmaec

Bigmaec
Combat ships always dirty 5 / drag drives.

Also you want thermal vent I guess instead of thermal shock to transfer heat (works like a charm with dual fixed huge beams on the 'Vette).

I tend to use prismatics on the 'Vette when I do wing Haz Res, cause then my mates have healing beams and the regeneration doesn't matter.
If alone, I use bi-weaves.
 

Shaamaan

Shaamaan
Regarding prismatics vs bi-weave... I'm a bi-weave man myself for bounty hunting, but I've heard of an interesting approach idea. Specifically, prismatics with a LOT of engineering boosts. Not resistances, but pure shield strength (perhaps add SOME resistances, so they are more or less balanced in the end). Now, if you plan on lengthy engagements, you can always boost away, reboot-repair, and end up with 50% shield (even if you were empty / almost empty), which SHOULD be more than the max a bi-weave offers.

Not sure how good this is - it definitely SOUNDS interesting IMHO. You're trading the automatic quick regeneration of shields for extremely beefy shields and the ability to regenerate them at will (to 50% but, again, that should be more than the bi-waves offer at 100%)... of course said regeneration requires you don't take fire and leaves you very exposed. And while you also can't take fire for the bi-weaves to regenerate you aren't as "naked" during the regeneration period.
 
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JW667

JW667
I've ran with a Corvette Shield tank and did exactly the same thing. If somehow my shield would drop to about 15% I would reboot and restore the shield.
This only happened in combat zone's where I would get overwhelmed.
In my opinion, for PVE it doesn't really matter what you choose.
You'll be pretty much invincible.
 
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