Hello
I have a question on Ship Integrity that I can't really find a definitive answer to. I went on a trip to finish off "Elite" in Exploration, and when I got back from what must have been a journey of 20k LYs, I found my DBX at 58% Integrity. I took two auto field maintenance units with me and used them twice to repair my FSD. I used two Neutron stars to make two jumps, which took my FSD to about 99% once and I think 98% the second time. Other than that, I never once even put a dent in my shields, never dropped out too close to a star, my hull/shields always remained at 100% the entire trip. I did beat the hell out of my SRV but always repaired it back to 100%, but my ship never took any damage, not a bad landing, not a bump into anything, nothing other than two Neutron jumps, which I repaired pretty much right away after each jump.
So my question is... had a stayed out longer, what would have happened to Ship if Integrity kept dropping in the background? I was nowhere near a station to repair, and there's no way, that I know of, to even know your Ship's Integrity is dropping, for whatever reason, so... at some point would my ship had just failed on me? What's the point of the Integrity setting and how does it work? I'd like to take other trips, maybe to SAG A, Beagle, wherever, but if my ship is silently disintegrating on me in the background, even when I never take any significant damage, other than the FSD on a Neutron jump which was repaired with the AFMU, I don't get what's causing the drop in Integrity and it's ultimate consequences should it hit a low enough point to, what, just stop working and I am left floating in the middle of nowhere?
Is there any real point to this "Integrity" mechanic, any real point that will cause ship failure possibly thousands of LYs away from, umm, anywhere to repair? Also, do you get a warning at some Integrity percentage, so you at least know you'd better head back in to find a station to repair?
Thanks! o7
I have a question on Ship Integrity that I can't really find a definitive answer to. I went on a trip to finish off "Elite" in Exploration, and when I got back from what must have been a journey of 20k LYs, I found my DBX at 58% Integrity. I took two auto field maintenance units with me and used them twice to repair my FSD. I used two Neutron stars to make two jumps, which took my FSD to about 99% once and I think 98% the second time. Other than that, I never once even put a dent in my shields, never dropped out too close to a star, my hull/shields always remained at 100% the entire trip. I did beat the hell out of my SRV but always repaired it back to 100%, but my ship never took any damage, not a bad landing, not a bump into anything, nothing other than two Neutron jumps, which I repaired pretty much right away after each jump.
So my question is... had a stayed out longer, what would have happened to Ship if Integrity kept dropping in the background? I was nowhere near a station to repair, and there's no way, that I know of, to even know your Ship's Integrity is dropping, for whatever reason, so... at some point would my ship had just failed on me? What's the point of the Integrity setting and how does it work? I'd like to take other trips, maybe to SAG A, Beagle, wherever, but if my ship is silently disintegrating on me in the background, even when I never take any significant damage, other than the FSD on a Neutron jump which was repaired with the AFMU, I don't get what's causing the drop in Integrity and it's ultimate consequences should it hit a low enough point to, what, just stop working and I am left floating in the middle of nowhere?
Is there any real point to this "Integrity" mechanic, any real point that will cause ship failure possibly thousands of LYs away from, umm, anywhere to repair? Also, do you get a warning at some Integrity percentage, so you at least know you'd better head back in to find a station to repair?
Thanks! o7