Do NOT ignore Life Support when upgrading!

[Sleepless_Knight]

Here is a quick cautionary warning, that you must not overlook the importance of your life-support system... particularly how much oxygen you will have if your canopy should be smashed open for some reason.

Don't believe it can happen?

It happened to me. Check it out:

[video=youtube;k9sKAkinYY4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9sKAkinYY4&list=UUbaf8FtiM8Zl0RMRbDsDqcQ[/video]

 

[Zaerion]

Upgrading life support more than D rate is strange to be honest

 

[Lestat]

No what stupid is dying of lack of air lol.

 

[Kolato]

I have the best life support available on my Cobra because ;
1. I can afford it
2. Its lighter
3. 25 minute oxygen ftw!

 

[Morbad]

Don't believe it can happen?

I've had my canopy smashed once in ~250 hours of play, and I had almost six minutes of oxygen left when I docked.

My ship has been saved countless times by the lower mass and energy consumption of a D class generator vs. an A.

Upgrading life support more than D rate is strange to be honest

I agree.

The only credible reason to do this is if you have a dedicated silent running/stealth build and plan to leave life support turned off for protracted periods of time to reduce heat buildup.

I have the best life support available on my Cobra because ;
1. I can afford it
2. Its lighter
3. 25 minute oxygen ftw!

It's not lighter than a D class.

 

[Dakron Nova]

Made me jump.

 

[SgtLennin]

Upgrading life support more than D rate is strange to be honest

I took the one with the least weight.

 

[mandellorian]

Canopy only smashed once in that long? guess you don`t play in the cobra much...damn things canopy smashes at the drop of a hat...the most damage i`ve suffered before the canopy blew is 25%...i stopped counting the 35th time it breached...i seriously think the damn thing has a design flaw in it.

 

[smsKONG]

Upgrading life support more than D rate is strange to be honest

Unless you are going exploring the frontiers of unknown space then the above post tells everything you need in terms of life support.
7 mins is an eternity in this game

 

[Kitiara]

I have a D for low weight too. Given I'm curently about 30 hours play time away from the nearest docking platform, the calculation was rather easy

 

[Hamerstein]

Only equip a D here too, 7.5 minutes is time-a-plenty unless you really dawdle.

 

[Eidolon]

Only equip a D here too, 7.5 minutes is time-a-plenty unless you really dawdle.

I agree. The weight saving makes D grade modules of all types very enticing for a new/low FSD ship too.
I have got back in less than 5mins with the E grade LS. But it got kind of close; I've never been so glad to get in through that letterbox!

 

[Red Rascal]

I upgraded mine to the 10 minute one after the same thing happened to me. Luckily I made it back with 41 seconds to spare....and dirty underwear.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that when it happened to me, I was also losing the fight, so I had to flee the enemy on top of it.

 

[Nardz]

This would have been useful yesterday Escaped but still asphyxiated/blew up on the docking pad, was literally just seconds away. I think they fined me too...

 

[Riepah]

Best way to avoid random canopy breach is to make sure your shields stay up. Shield cells are a much, much better investment than life support.

 

[Sleepless_Knight]

Best way to avoid random canopy breach is to make sure your shields stay up. Shield cells are a much, much better investment than life support.

Nope. If you look at the video, my shields were at full strength, right up until the moment when a Cobra hit me in the face, and the canopy blew. Although I do agree that Shield Cells are a better investment. I wasn't advocating "buy better life-support as soon as you can!" or anything quite so ridiculous. It's always pretty low down on my list. I was just reminding some people in a training video the other day, not to forget that your LSS might not be very sexy but it is still an important piece of equipment which you might need to depend on someday... so just don't ignore it completely.

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This would have been useful yesterday Escaped but still asphyxiated/blew up on the docking pad, was literally just seconds away. I think they fined me too...

Ouch. Sucks.

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Upgrading life support more than D rate is strange to be honest

I tend to agree. My LS has 10 minutes now. Should be more than enough to get me wherever I'm going. 15 minutes still wouldn't get you to somewhere like Hutton Orbital, so what's the point.
That was the first time I have had a breached canopy, and I've been playing and making ED YT videos since July.

 

[Sleepless_Knight]

I have a D for low weight too. Given I'm curently about 30 hours play time away from the nearest docking platform, the calculation was rather easy

Er... yeah. I guess an extra few minutes isn't gonna make a damn bit of difference in your situation. But for those who still haven't ventured outside the core systems, it's worth doing at some point.

 

[aRtFuL]

Upgrading life support more than D rate is strange to be honest

D rate is not only lighter but also the fact that you don't waste power. Life support and scanner are 2 things that you DON'T want to waste a crazy amount of power on, otherwise you are limiting yourself on other systems (this is especially true for Eagle and Viper where their power even with A rating Power Plant is quite limited)

 

[Jackie Silver]

I use "A" Life Support. And "A" everything else. Because I'm worth it.

 

[Riepah]

Nope. If you look at the video, my shields were at full strength, right up until the moment when a Cobra hit me in the face, and the canopy blew.

To be fair, with a crash like that you're lucky that you didn't go from 100% shield 100% hull straight to "Eject, Eject, Eject", that's what happened to me in those cases. With how rarely things like that happen, I'm not convinced life support is ever really worth it in its current state. If life support modules came with a stronger canopy, though, they'd be much more viable.