Just about finished building mine - a very adaptable bi-weave, multi-role build...
I like how I can still hit 600m/s while weighing ~830t with a jump range of 41Ly.
New ship: Gutamaya Corsair
- Thread starter Rubbernuke
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I like how I can still hit 600m/s while weighing ~830t with a jump range of 41Ly.
Guaranteed speed regardless of weight. Also hoping they tweak the figures
so may as well have 7A. The jump range is still good enough with the 7A for my usage right now, so no need to downsize.
noting that a few people didn't know about the whole minimum/optimal/maximum masss brackets...
this ship is actually good for the community in the sense they might... ya know... THIMKZ O3O
Honestly I think the ship could lose 1 internal size 5 slot... OR powerplant to size 6 (while keeping size 7power dristributor)... OR switch 1 large hardpoint into a medium one.
and with one of those three give it 1 more utility mount.
Odd adjustment list I know. But maybe an idea for the core dynamics ship... when it arrives... 5 utility mounts. not 6, not 4. 5 utility mounts.
(if the corsair is gonna be a "better clipper" will the Core Dynamics ship be a "better gunship"???!!!?!?!??!)
this ship is actually good for the community in the sense they might... ya know... THIMKZ O3O
Honestly I think the ship could lose 1 internal size 5 slot... OR powerplant to size 6 (while keeping size 7power dristributor)... OR switch 1 large hardpoint into a medium one.
and with one of those three give it 1 more utility mount.
Odd adjustment list I know. But maybe an idea for the core dynamics ship... when it arrives... 5 utility mounts. not 6, not 4. 5 utility mounts.
(if the corsair is gonna be a "better clipper" will the Core Dynamics ship be a "better gunship"???!!!?!?!??!)
Challenge accepted
(Admittedly that's a serious diet now, and this is theoretical but I'll build it once I can have more than just one)
Followup question: How do you achieve 600 m/s boost speed? Dirty drives + drag drives?
That's the one.
How hot does the Corsair run with Dirty Drag Drives?
Personally I put Clean Drag Drives on mine and having fun. But got curious about the heat levels of the dirty drives on a corsair.
(I usually use reinforced or drive distribution on my ships but went drag as there is zero reason to get drive distribution on the corsair. And typically install clean drives cause for all my ships it greatly helps with A LOT of heat issues)
Personally I put Clean Drag Drives on mine and having fun. But got curious about the heat levels of the dirty drives on a corsair.
(I usually use reinforced or drive distribution on my ships but went drag as there is zero reason to get drive distribution on the corsair. And typically install clean drives cause for all my ships it greatly helps with A LOT of heat issues)
600 m/s unless total weight is over 945 ton, on 7A.
But dirt drag drives + lenghty FSD charging (like when mass-locked) can put ship heat to 100% by like 10 boosts or so. On armoured 5 with monstered.
In other words, the heat dump from drives is noticable, especially boosting adds ton of that heat.
Ship itself does not appear to have any significant heat capacity either, I doubt it got more than 300 units wich is low end.. but alteast heat handling/disspation is better than in courier.
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are you familiar with edsy? corsair has now been added so you can play around with numbers.
i have armoured thermal plant with dirty drags and havent seen any thermal issue anywhere yet. quite the opposite actually.
New CG, what's unusual is it specifically mentions the Corsair:
source: https://inara.cz/elite/communitygoals/
source: https://inara.cz/elite/communitygoals/
There's whole discussions on that here, and to summarise what I've seen, I'm really not sure it makes a big difference to heat whilst making a significant difference to ship speed. The only times I've ever noticed clean drives being useful is when I'm in combat whilst in the orbital cruise area of a landable planet (rare to never) or if I've got silent running going (almost never).
Clean drives is one of the most useless blueprints in the entire game (alongside lightweight HRPs and suchlike).
Dirty drives is just better in every way. Heat is irrelevant.
I litterally just now was longing to get the pre-engineered KWS back (since I lost it) and there is a CG Right now giving it!
eeeeeeee!
(sorry off topic but wanted to say!)
say that to mamba and beluga pilots
Honestly, I've not seen a build that's had an issue with heat where clean drives has fixed it.
Not sure about Beluga pilots (do they even exist?), but I cannot think of a single reason why a Mamba pilot in their right mind would want their ship to boost 50 m/s slower.
clean drives are/were useful in ax. low emission thermal plant with clean thermal drives will let you boost somewhat comfortably in silent running. was especially good around the titan.
as corsair seems to be a decent candidate for ax some people could find them useful even now, though i doubt it. the loss of speed on a heavy hull tank isnt really worth it.
Yes but the CG is for bounty hunting not Piracy... https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/galnet/increased-security-needed-dhan-system
Admittedly you only need to hand in one bounty to secure the KWS.. Shame there isn't a competing Hand in x tons of stolen goods for a Long Range + Fast Scan Wake/Manifest Scanner