Ships Surface CZ Thruster Engineering

KronoKinesis

KronoKinesis
Hello everyone. I've been playing for a while but it's my first time here in the forums. Anyway, I'm looking for some engineering advice on a few CAS ships meant to do surface CZs.

I'm wondering if Clean Tuning drives would be a good idea for any of them. Simply for the thermal load when on high-G worlds. Right now they are dirty tuned because speed is useful in combat, but I'm hoping a more experienced CAS pilot could tell me if they ever get overheating issues this way on a 1G or higher world. Or if clean tuning would even solve that. Any insight is appreciated o7
 

sinisalo

sinisalo
Welcome to the boards mate, nice to have you here

In my opinion, no. Clean drives are an engineering trap. The difference in heat is small, since clean drives use more power than dirty, and power draw is what generates heat in Elite. You will see a difference, but I rarely saw it more than a few points of heat percentage. And you will be trading away so much performance that I don't find it is worth it.

What you need on high-G worlds is smash, not cool running in my view.

If you want to run cooler there are more ways to do this. Speed is life. A-rated dirty drives in every ship. Or that's my opinion anyway.
 
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SlickPBW

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Seconded. In the vast majority of cases for any kind of build Dirty Drag Drives are the way to go, except use Drive Distributors for (quoting Mr. google): ships with Enhanced Performance Thrusters and a laden mass between 64T and 120T (for Class 3) or 45T and 76T (for Class 2).

Heat problems are usually caused more by other things, as previously stated.
 
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