For those that do not increase life support here's a pic for you.
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Mine's 16 seconds, that was 2 days ago
But I think everything more than 7:30 to 10:00 minutes is overkill, unless you want to fight for another 10 minutes..
I always upgrade to the 7 minute 30 second one. I would have made it
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I always upgrade to the 7 minute 30 second one. I would have made it
This should be done for other reasons than increase of time. The D rated life support weighs less and adds less to your mass for more speed!
6 seconds...and I arrived to discover the outpost didn't have repair capabilities!
I had 5 minutes of life support in my Vulture and got beat up pretty bad whilst carrying 200 merits and and 2 mil of bounties to trade in. Thought I'd make it back to a station with 1 minute of oxygen left... got interdicted and lost everything. Needless to say I have an upgrade of 7:30 oxygen now! If I had that extra minute or two I'd have easily made it back!
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How do you even get in this situation against npcs ?
Try flying alone into a SSS against 5 or 6 ships. 25mins life support is standard on all my combat ships, more time to finish the fight once the canopy is gone.
Very good point.
rootsrat
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Mine's literally 1 second. It must have been the most intense experience in Elite so far for me I think, as I've had no insurance that time. It was a while ago... I still didn't learn my lesson and dome other time I ran out of oxygen a few meters away from the grill.
After that I always buy A-class LS on a combat vessel.
Mine is 25 secs. When the canopy blew out and the middle of the HUD disappeared at first I thought the game was broke. Then I realised it was just good design, the HUD is protected onto the canopy so where the glass is missing so is the HUD. Made finding the station tricky. I was greatly relieved when the timer stopped as soon as I passed through the slot.
IMO, anything more than the 1-step upgrade (for weight saving) is a waste of time and money as it's not worth the weight and power draw. 7 and a half minutes should be enough to get back to somewhere but, to be honest, the point is more the following : if I get to the point where my cockpit canopy goes, I am invariably dead a few seconds later anyway. I find once the shields have collapsed, any foe worth his rating (ie. Elite) will start taking out your systems within a few seconds of sustained fire, and whether it's your cockpit going, or your thrusters, or your power supply - it's all irrelevant after that. You're dead already. For lesser foes, it's not such a worry.
rootsrat
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I disagree strongly. I've had my canopy blown countless times and still made it out alive with only a few % of hull integrity left. Learn how to make a
Plus, believe me, you don't want to get back to somewhere. You want to get back to a station rather than an outpost. Having 20 secs of oxygen flow left and finding out there are no free landing pads on an outpost can be extremely stressful
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I mostly use maxed life support if I want to overload a combat ship. That give me 25minutes with deployed hard points before I have to go and refill my oxygen tank.
it's been a while since I used it though. My mostly need it when I've got a new ship and have not been able to afford proper power plant upgrades.
it's been a while since I used it though. My mostly need it when I've got a new ship and have not been able to afford proper power plant upgrades.
i managed to get in the letterbox with one second left.
i got a video capture of it. though it'd be a pain to post it.
i had the 5m life support and after the first 3 mins spent trying to get into supercruise
i genuinely thought i was dead. it was just the short period of time before having it proven as fact.
i even got angry along the way. my once proud vulture seems to be getting battered a lot
the fact is, i didnt have the money for a rebuy
god i was annoyed
but ya carry on dont ya?
and with every second that passed i thought i was dead lost everything
and that feeling carried on till about the last three seconds when there was a gliimmer of light
and then a burst as i flew into the airlock!
then i found out that ship integrity is a thing!
i got a video capture of it. though it'd be a pain to post it.
i had the 5m life support and after the first 3 mins spent trying to get into supercruise
i genuinely thought i was dead. it was just the short period of time before having it proven as fact.
i even got angry along the way. my once proud vulture seems to be getting battered a lot
the fact is, i didnt have the money for a rebuy
god i was annoyed
but ya carry on dont ya?
and with every second that passed i thought i was dead lost everything
and that feeling carried on till about the last three seconds when there was a gliimmer of light
and then a burst as i flew into the airlock!
then i found out that ship integrity is a thing!
rootsrat
Volunteer Moderator
Fortunately it's never happened to me. When you run out of oxygen do you perma-death and start from scratch? Surely your commander is not immortal.
Your ship blows and you eject in escape capsule.
