I just love useful threads like this! Thank you CMDR's! I am dying to find a new use for my FDS which is one of my favorite ships. This thread has inspired me to mod my FDS to run as cool as possible. Can anyone point me to guides on this?
It's just occured to me that I've been doing power plants wrong.
I just love useful threads like this! Thank you CMDR's! I am dying to find a new use for my FDS which is one of my favorite ships. This thread has inspired me to mod my FDS to run as cool as possible. Can anyone point me to guides on this?
Disagree. Buying a paintjob shouldn't result in a combat advantage. For anyone.
Night Vision, aside from plenty of other uses, corrects this mistake.
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I don't know what boat you operate, but if it's a smaller one you can absolutely get away with the monstered exp', as the mass increase on up-2-C4 PP is tiny, because said PP didn't weigh much to begin with.
That probably explains why I never gave it a look until recently. I still have to go for overcharged on some of my ships, since armored G5 only gives slightly less power than an overcharged G2, and on some builds that just doesn't cut it. But if I can, I go for armored now before I go overcharged. The FdL work with an armored G5 thermal spread, the Mamba will have to run armored G5 monstered. And then there's Python and the two Kraits, which can run low emissions G5 with no compromise in outfitting.
I currently have a total 7 of ships. Currently the only small ship I use frequently is a Viper IV.
I love the medium ships most, although I also fly the Cutter and Anaconda.
My problem is that I find it very difficult to assess the end result of certain module modifications and combinations, so in general I tend to repeat modifications I already used before. I do not experiment enough.
It's a personality thing
... I am averse to change, which in this case is not a good thing, because I miss out.
My two cents on power plants:
Choose your power plant LAST after fitting everything else so that you select a power plant just big enough to power everything fitted to your ship with just a couple percent left over,
anything bigger and more powerful than that just adds mass (weight) and generates more heat.
If overcharging a power plant, overcharge it enough to just barely power everything on your ship with just a couple percent left over. Over-overcharging causes your ship to quickly overheat, even when just scooping fuel.
Choose a power plant taking into consideration the intended role of the ship:
Exploration ships want the smallest D-rated power plant that will provide just enough power to get you there with the least mass.
Combat ships however, usually want large, A-rated power plants for maximum power and thermal efficiency.
The same goes for modifications. An exploration ship will often benefit from the "thermal spread" modification for heat reduction when scooping fuel while combat ships often benefit from the "shielded" and "overcharged" modifications.
To get an even smaller PP
I currently have a total 7 of ships. Currently the only small ship I use frequently is a Viper IV.
I love the medium ships most, although I also fly the Cutter and Anaconda.
My problem is that I find it very difficult to assess the end result of certain module modifications and combinations, so in general I tend to repeat modifications I already used before. I do not experiment enough.
It's a personality thing
I'm just lazy so I find the best plan is to just stick the biggest possible Guardian PP in my ships while I'm engineering them (which usually has enough juice to keep the lights on, even if I sometimes have to disable a couple of SBs) and then, once I've finished everything else, I'll replace the Guardian PP with the smallest A-rated PP that, when modded, can power my ship.
I guess most people are aware of the benefits the Guardian FSD Booster provides but all the Guardian modules are, basically, "pre-engineered" modules.
You have the faff of unlocking them once but, once you do, it means you've got a half-decent module which you can buy off-the-shelf and bung on your ship to get decent performance.
You can usually improve on them with a properly engineered module but they're ideal for just bunging on a ship to get it working.
Thought that made sense, then I looked at my shielded DBX with a size 2 PP and decided ... maybe not. I guess it must be the weps, though I have a good 30% of my power to play with...
yeah, recently I started just putting a guardian PP and guardian PD on new ships until I get to the point when it makes sense to switch them out.
Does it matter ? AFAIK, only the actual power use and efficiency rating does matter. Is that wrong ?
My reference for heat stuff is the excellent https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/286628-Research-Detailed-Heat-Mechanics
on too many ships the PP is a bottleneck where people have to engineer for more power available.
The issue is, that the non engineered elite back then was disgned aorund PP and PD limiting the ships in many cases. Now Engineer cna offset this, but utilising anything that grants less power on most ships just plain out cripples them.
The issue is, that the non engineered elite back then was disgned aorund PP and PD limiting the ships in many cases. Now Engineer cna offset this, but utilising anything that grants less power on most ships just plain out cripples them.
I suspect many people bought the black paintjobs because they believed it would give a small edge in combat. And it did, until FD made night vision.
I don't think the last Blackfriday paintjobs SALE sold as much as the previous ones.
Clean drive only lowers heat that would be generated by boosting.