Explorers - Do you look after your FSD?

[CMDR Cknarf]

Generally, you shouldn’t lose that much integrity in the first place, unless you’re neutron boosting, or asleep at the helm.

An FSD above 80% is effectively the same as one at 100%. Even then, you can push it a little farther if you have to. If I’m between refuels on a neutron path, I may deal with minor malfunctions until I get to my fuel star.

The rare times I explore anymore, I try to keep it above that 80% cutoff, which is always a safe bet.

 

[alexzk]

I keep above 90%. Well, at 90% I stop to jump and start to fix, but, If i was landed before that - I could fix on surface as well. Just a bit lazy to switch powers there too often.
So it's about each 10 supercharged jumps there is a fix.

 

[LifesAJourney]

That actually does not happen. You will not drop from super cruise because your FSD fails. You drop from SC because you hit the exclusion zone.

Unless you wear the FSD to 0% (or shutdown thrusters/fsd/damage powerplant to below 40%) you do not drop from SC

Well, it happened to me twice. Once I died because I was in the middle of the jet, near the end of it, pretty far from exclusion zone. Once I didn't die because I fortunately was very close to the "border" of the jet (again, near the end of it, far from exclusion zone) and the wobbling was delicate enough I managed to point the nose of my ship at an escape vector and low wake.

In both cases my FSD was at 78-79% at the moment of dropping from SC.

 

[Sysmon]

I never let it get below 90%. It takes seconds to drop out of supercruise, stop and power down to run an AFMU cycle. When you're 30,000 LY from civilisation and your FSD is the only way to get home, you bet I take care of it. As for careful handling, the only time it ever takes damage is when neutron boosting.

Ship can also be set to run AFMU when landed on a planet. Multitasking FTW.

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[varonica]

I remember those days, fantastic work.

Yeah it was all listed in publicly available spreadsheets so other pilots could get to sites easily, basically providing a service for other players, of course it didn't help when FDEV reset the planetary surfaces not once but twice during that period so they all moved and we had to start again, talk about laugh......

 

[space voyager]

This sounds like the more fun option.

LOL, sounds like that, sure, until the FSD is failing in the jet of a white dwarf. Though admittedly I try to stay away from those.

Anyway, it has been a while since I last played the game at all (a few months) but I kept the FSD under strict control when travelling the Neutron highway. If you don't use it, there's little need for care really.

 

[marx]

You think the guys rushing to SagA and BP to put 'first discovered by' were checking the scenery?
You could not even scan for planets in the first version(s). You had to fly in circles with increasing radius around the sun to even find planets

Discovery Scanners were in the game since the Gamma headstart launch, so not really. The Explorer starting loadout (available to Kickstarter backers at 70 GBP and above) included an Intermediate Discovery Scanner, so yes, you could scan for planets.

Perhaps what you have misheard or are misremembering (I've no idea when you started playing, and your profile here is set to private) is that the Basic and Intermediate Discovery Scanners had limited range, so if you wanted to find planets beyond them (500 ls for the BDS and 1,000 ls for the IDS), and couldn't yet purchase an Advanced Discovery Scanner, then you had to rely on parallax to spot planets, or just fly around in circles (which was easier but much more time-consuming). After all, the ADS cost 1.5 million Cr, which was a significant expense at the time, especially if you relied on exploration for your credits. (At launch, an ELW would be around 30-35,000 Cr, then it was doubled in ED 1.2, and stayed that way for two years, until ED 2.3.)

Zulu Romeo took the starting Explorer loadout, so he only used an IDS, but he was racing to the centre anyway. Erimus Kamzel flew an Asp Explorer to Beagle Point, much later than that, but he wasn't racing, and I'm pretty sure he used an ADS by then: after all, the Asp Explorer wasn't a cheap ship, so since he could afford that, he surely could have afforded an ADS as well.

 

[Crank Larson]

OR - do you let it degrade down to where it's failing a lot before repairing?

Yup.

Though I wouldn't say failing a lot. I repair when it's failing enough to irritate me (usually twice)!

 

[ORANGEORANGE]

How long have you been jumping with a drive like that? Just a few, or loads? Frequently or just a couple of times?


Damn! Do you know what your FSD % was on?

I've done this many times, just watch to make sure it never gets to 0%.