C'mon Chiggy, you only need to scan another 50 odd systems
Hunting with Chiggy....
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Yah, but I'm hip deep in M and K class systems out on the edge ATM, might take a few more than 50...but here's #3999....C'mon Chiggy, you only need to scan another 50 odd systems
And here she is....#4000...way out on the edge of the MUEMEA sector.....Now I gotta redo my ribbons....grgrrrrr hehe
My 53rd ringed ELW.....don't wanna jinx myself, but my present cube is averaging around in in 35.....I'll give it a few hundred more searched before I start happy dancing or anything...
Love the new FSD.......
Hey Chiggy, what's your Mandalay build?
I squeezed a bit more out of it...just a hair shy of 99 LY max. I was afraid it might run a bit hot with the smaller overcharged power plant and changing several experimental effects from cooling effects to light weight, but I can land on Skardee 1 and never break 53% heat...at least as good as my DBX....
Ok...finished my first random sample of the new cube....resulting in 10 found with 289 searched..seems to be another good one...now I'll invest a full 1000 system search to confirm!
Ringed ELW #54...damn I love these things!
Ok....did a sample size of 1000 systems, and came away with 1 in 40, and then to the adjacent cube for 1266 more, for a hit rate of 1 in 33. Might as well check the remaining 5 in the parent "E" cube......
Now I don't feel so bad... I'm at 89 (see https://s.orbis.zone/qNbR) but that's with with SRV and a repair limpet...
My Mandalay is a hair shy of 86 LY with a full standard tank of fuel, though I have opted towards more survivability and running cool than maximizing jumprange. https://s.orbis.zone/qNbW
Now I'm confused; heavier load but more range? What am I missing??
My guess is that you haven't manually edited your 5A SCO FSD to use 2077 tons optimal mass for the pre-engineered reward? Can be done if you click on the wrench icon as you would with engineering, look a little further for the Optimal Mass, click on that and add in the optimal mass number for your FSD if it diverges from the standard like the pre-engineered ones do.
Still confused; do I need to get back to an engineer and tweak the SCO there or can I increase while out in the black? Should I have pruchased pre-engineered then swapped out for a SCO?
(and sorry for thread jacking Chiggy!!!)
No worries! My SCO FSD is the one you "build" from the Thargoid bits...then added the mass manager secondary effect to it. It's quite a bit better than the "regular" SCO FSD. It also seems to be optimized quite a bit for use with the Mandalay I think? If using it when you load it onto the build sheet you have to tweak the numbers yourself as I guess the program hasn't been updated for it yet? I also carry a small rail gun (light weight with fuel slug secondary) but I didn't list it because it kept showing the weight as 2t when it's really 0.18t, and I couldn't edit that for some reason. After I realized all of my efforts at cooler running like my other builds had negligible effect, I light weighted everywhere possible and that is where I picked up almost another LY of range.
Many thanks to @Chiggy and @Kzak for pointing me in the direction of the pre-engineered SCO FSD... A wee bit o grind and my recently purchased Mandalay is now at 88.73 with a max of 96.84Ly. Happy to run this with the SRV so I can still tootle about planetside if the desire take me...
Edit: Shortlink to build... https://s.orbis.zone/qNyL
Edit: Shortlink to build... https://s.orbis.zone/qNyL
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You still carry all the data with you, or do you periodically go Cartographic somewhere?
It depends on my mood..lol...I usually keep it till it hits around a billion or so then go dump it...Once I kept it until it went over 30 billion (with LYR) and got second place squadron trophy all by my lonesome self lol
A small update on the fishing trip....going back to the XO-Z cube for a bit....ZJ-Z broke me...nothing but gas giants and solo stars...
