Ships On the magnificent space whale...

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My opinion is that it was never intended for ultra long flights, but rather heavy duty bubble travel.

The Beluga was never designed as an explorer.

Frell me, right?
 

XOSHI

XOSHI
As someone who put it's Belugas either to Colonia or 8k LYs behind Sag A*, I... have to agree. This Monster is eating heatsinks like salt sticks and is breaked down by it's own, 128t heavy fuel tank. And on top it has this horrific heat problem.

If the 'Conda would look more like a deep space bus, than the terrible cargo-transporting beast she actually is, I would have went with her instead of the Belugas. But actually it doesn't felt right.

Don't get me wrong. If one day I will leave the bubble again, I'll do it again in my long-range Beluga. But that's a choice of style. Not of rationaly.
 
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Thrym

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I just bought one a week or so ago, and out of the box I had the heat problems too. Overheat while leaving planets, overheat charging the FSD, and scooping was borderline right out. For me, it just had to be fixed.

Putting the Thermal Vent experimental on the power plant and FSD seems to have fixed it, for the most part. Yeah, it kinda sucked to lose out on the range increasing FSD experimentals, but I can get off planets with ease, charge up jumps, and even run the scoop without incident. All while maintaining my G5 7A dirty drives, a full G6 reinforced shield, and 36.97 LY max jump range with 12 limpets in the cargo hold! It might be worth noting that I also downgraded the fuel tank to a 64T. You notice that you actually have to scoop instead of just ignore stars on 2-300 ly journeys, but it adds a bit of range and makes it more manageable to top it off.

The one thing that holds it back from being a rock star explorer is the lack of a size 7 module slot, in my opinion. If you could put a grade 7 scoop on this thing, it'd really travel well. As is, that's the one drawback I'm really wishing I had(and enough module space for a fighter, shield, AND scoop of proper size for the ship, but that's another story).
 

XOSHI

XOSHI
Thrym said:
The one thing that holds it back from being a rock star explorer is the lack of a size 7 module slot, in my opinion. If you could put a grade 7 scoop on this thing, it'd really travel well. As is, that's the one drawback I'm really wishing I had(and enough module space for a fighter, shield, AND scoop of proper size for the ship, but that's another story).
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100% agreed. The Beluga is the largest ship ED has and it's internals use less space than the internals of a Python, of which you can put more than 2 of them into this tremendous hull. for sure, there has to be a gymnasium on board, and possibly even a arboreum and a swimming pool, but even then there should be space for a additive class7 internal.
 
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Mxpower76

Mxpower76
With the FSD booster you can get some decent range out of it but.....try filling a 128t or 64t fuel tank with a 6A scoop. Either you'll be there a while or incinerated from sitting in the corona for so long.

Edit: Oh somebody already mentioned the scooping issue.
 

Armholeeio

Armholeeio
It has no room for a size 7 internals as that’s taken up by the pool and day spa, oh the lounge, dining room, kitchen, crew rooms, luggage hold and not to forget the ballroom
 
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