Engineers Has anyone tried Engineering a pure cold ship? (Smuggling/Stealth)
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basically you want to reduce powerdraw of moduls as much as possible... so check out, which moduls you can E-rate, turn off moduls you don't need...
a DBE will get frozen without any engineering through that. DBS is similar. as for clean drive tuning ---- it ups the powerusage, so it counters it own effect a bit.
basically you want to reduce powerdraw of moduls as much as possible... so check out, which moduls you can E-rate, turn off moduls you don't need...
a DBE will get frozen without any engineering through that. DBS is similar. as for clean drive tuning ---- it ups the powerusage, so it counters it own effect a bit.
Always fun seeing my work put to use. It's also refreshing seeing someone understand that clean drives don't make you colder. You don't get clean drives to cool off- you get clean drives to increase your performance without suffering as much of a heat penalty in combat. It always kills me when I see people suggesting that explorers should get clean tuning on their drives... Since explorers spend most of their time in SC, all that clean drive tuning is doing for them is increasing their power load, and thus increasing their resting heat, and thus making it harder to scoop!
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Try departing or maneuvering over a high-G Planet (especially one very near a Sun)
Then you'll see what Clean Drives are really worth.
Not many Ships are really that heavily affected across the board, though. But a Lakon Type-6/7/9 or a Beluga with their very poor Engine heat tolerance will benefit quite a bit.
Other than that, it's true of course that any Drive Tuning increases power Draw and thus heat a little bit.
But moving the Throttle forward (i.e. on above Ships) easily generates 10x more heat than the miniscule heat added by Power Draw (actually also in SC).
And that's where Clean Drives come in very handy if the Ship suffers from Engine-related heat issues.
The ones where the Engine puts them beyond their Heat Envelope can quickly be identified by charging FSD and additionally tapping Afterburner (simulating an escape jump).
Most Combat- and Multirole Ships have little or even zero issues with doing so. Alot of other Ships however, can literally cook off just doing that. Those bascially are the primary Clean Drives candidates.
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Try departing or maneuvering over a high-G Planet (especially one very near a Sun)
Then you'll see what Clean Drives are really worth.
Not many Ships are really that heavily affected across the board, though. But a Lakon Type-6/7/9 or a Beluga with their very poor Engine heat tolerance will benefit quite a bit.
Other than that, it's true of course that any Drive Tuning increases power Draw and thus heat a little bit.
But moving the Throttle forward (i.e. on above Ships) easily generates 10x more heat than the miniscule heat added by Power Draw (actually also in SC).
And that's where Clean Drives come in very handy if the Ship suffers from Engine-related heat issues.
The ones where the Engine puts them beyond their Heat Envelope can quickly be identified by charging FSD and additionally tapping Afterburner (simulating an escape jump).
Most Combat- and Multirole Ships have little or even zero issues with doing so. Alot of other Ships however, can literally cook off just doing that. Those bascially are the primary Clean Drives candidates.
yes! i had quite an revelation on that with my (clean drive tuning) conda and (dirty drive) DBE on the "Strong G"-mission planet (10 G).
also: high waking/low waking from stars in close proximity. you need >75% speed, so your thrusters fire a lot, and the FSD charge adds to it ... of course you could go into FAoff in such a case or low wake ...