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Guide / Tutorial Ship Power Systems
- Thread starter Errantthought
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Are you sure it's just not reloading?
Its either reloading or if ur getting a warning its underpowered and need more pips to wep.
Wiki mentions one more difference for better power plant:
Upgrading increases the Heat Efficiency which means that heat will dissipate faster and thus is useful when your ship is in heat intensive situations (fuel scooping for example).
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This is really useful.
Thanks
This is really useful.
Thanks
Little note on this - after lots of power juggling in my Vulture I've noticed that re-enabling Life Support doesn't reset the reserve timer anymore, it continues to count down from its previous amount.
Something else I've discovered is that the only issue with having your Power Distributor disabled is that you can't adjust your pips on the fly (in my case I retract hardpoints). It remembers your current pip allocation and doesn't affect capacitor recharge rates or engine speed/maneuverability. Only advisable in a comfortable environment where surprises are unlikely though!
After researching the 're-enable life support not resetting the reserve timer' issue, I've found that there is a bug report filed and acknowledged by FDev, awaiting check & response: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=126766
Personally I suspect it may have been seen as a mild exploit when the timer reset, so it was nerfed. I lowered life support priority a few times even though it was always a risky option, just to max out the potential of my Vulture.
Personally I suspect it may have been seen as a mild exploit when the timer reset, so it was nerfed. I lowered life support priority a few times even though it was always a risky option, just to max out the potential of my Vulture.
While max pips to sys may not RECHARGE your shields any faster (unless your power bar is bottomed out), it does increase your shield REGENERATION rate when your shields have been taken out (after they start regenerating)
I came across this thread searching for info about power plant and/or power distributor and boost. I suspect one of my recent changes is causing the "insufficient power" message I get when I try to boost. Is that something that could be addressed through prioritization?...or maybe I went too low on the plant trying to maximize jump range.
Looking at ships / equipment in coriolis.io I notice some numbers. Weps (27 MJ / 2.9 MW) next to the 5E power distribution module. Then I see that the small pulse laser says (damage 2 (2 MJ)) and the large beam says (damage 6 (24 MJ).
am I right in thinking that the 5e PD can sink 27 MJ of heat, therefore 13 small pulses, or 1 large beam, and one small pulse, but not 2 large pulses? Are there figures available that will let you say " these weaps and PD, I can hold the trigger down for a long time, and these I can use / cool/ use, and that set I cannot even run on this PD"?
Best regards,
Sevin Dragoon
am I right in thinking that the 5e PD can sink 27 MJ of heat, therefore 13 small pulses, or 1 large beam, and one small pulse, but not 2 large pulses? Are there figures available that will let you say " these weaps and PD, I can hold the trigger down for a long time, and these I can use / cool/ use, and that set I cannot even run on this PD"?
Best regards,
Sevin Dragoon
Question, I purchased a Viper mkIV.
I then replaced the reactor with a 4A powerplant.
Then a 3A power distributor,
Then I added a shield module.
Now I want to add a new thruster but they are red out. claiming that they are too big for my ship...all of them.
What did I do wrong, besides not getting them right after the powerplant?
I then replaced the reactor with a 4A powerplant.
Then a 3A power distributor,
Then I added a shield module.
Now I want to add a new thruster but they are red out. claiming that they are too big for my ship...all of them.
What did I do wrong, besides not getting them right after the powerplant?
Word about heat generation. Power plants generate heat based on rating (A-E) and the power consumed, not max power capacity. This means that 2E and 8E with load of 9 MW generate same amount of heat or 9 units/s. A and B rated engines produce 0.4 units/MW used, C produces 0.5, D 0.8 and E is 1 unit/MW used.
You can use this in the game, like in fuel scooping. If you turn of every extra system in your ship before fuel scooping, you can dive in faster and get more fuel/second before overheating as the heat from power plant is less. Same thing in combat, everything you absolutely do not need and takes power should be turned off before engaging to off-set the weapon heat. Big fuel scoop powered up does not help you in combat, but powered off it might keep your weapons from frying.
But! I strongly recommend that you never ever do not turn off FSD or any other system that you might need in a hurry. They all have boot-up times. FSD takes 10 seconds to come back online and if it is queued to to come back after weapons are retracted, that is 10 seconds you are just sitting in a possibly hopeless combat situation with shields gone. Only after that 10 seconds does the FSD start charging.
Just a few things I have found.
You can use this in the game, like in fuel scooping. If you turn of every extra system in your ship before fuel scooping, you can dive in faster and get more fuel/second before overheating as the heat from power plant is less. Same thing in combat, everything you absolutely do not need and takes power should be turned off before engaging to off-set the weapon heat. Big fuel scoop powered up does not help you in combat, but powered off it might keep your weapons from frying.
But! I strongly recommend that you never ever do not turn off FSD or any other system that you might need in a hurry. They all have boot-up times. FSD takes 10 seconds to come back online and if it is queued to to come back after weapons are retracted, that is 10 seconds you are just sitting in a possibly hopeless combat situation with shields gone. Only after that 10 seconds does the FSD start charging.
Just a few things I have found.