Viper Overheating?

timbero

timbero
Is this common with a Viper?

Bounty hunting for 20 minutes, a couple of ships.

Temps spiked to maybe 150% a few times, tops 200% (due to railguns) - had heat sinks and also let it cool down (of course) whenever spikes would occur.

Shield never went down.

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Shouldn't hull hp also start dropping if it was due to heat damage?

I've seen something similar before which I assumed was hacking (or the game glitching out). All my SLF module health just started dropping for no reason at all, causing all sorts of malfunctions. Shields were up, heat was at normal levels - all modules just started dropping from a 100% at the same time to eventually 0%.

This has only ever happened in OPEN and at RES sites for me.

Known Viper issue when heat spikes to 150-200% for 2 seconds, the modules start eating themselves without hull taking damage?
Known game glitch?
Known hack?

:S
 

PhazonAran

PhazonAran
Your hull starts taking heat damage at 200%. Between 100% and 200%, only your internals are damaged, and they experience malfunctions when they are. But gee, you trying to start a BBQ or something with your railguns ? :D
 

timbero

timbero
I bought an unengineered Viper at the current CG, to buzz around the station. Took it for a spin at the high res, started getting module malfunctions fairly fast. :D

It's quite fun, I usually only fly big ships nowadays. :)

Thanks for the answers. I've run hot ships before, but none of them melted quite so fast.
 

Bunkerkind Anni

Bunkerkind Anni
the viper was known for running hot easily,
as such, the DBS was implemented as a valid alternative,

and later the viper mkIV also was implemted with the implication to be able to run more power hungry weapons

and i agree, the imperial hammer railguns AND missiles are a really hot combination there for internal BBQ
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
If you are gonna run I-Hammers on a small ship, Try Clean drive tuning the thrusters.
Maybe roll for lightweight mount on the Rails looking for a secondary bonus effect on Heat efficiency.
 

Morbad

Morbad
As has been repeatedly stated already, the Viper really isn't up to the task of handling dual hammers without extensive modifications.

It should also be noted that shields cannot malfunction. They either work normally, or they are broken (0% integrity).

Vasco Sapien said:
Clean drive tuning the thrusters.
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Clean drives consume the most power on average and have the highest standing heat on average. Yes, the thermal load when boosting is a bit lower, but in practice they do very little to help. It's why almost no one uses them.
 
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timbero

timbero
Vasco Sapien said:
If you are gonna run I-Hammers on a small ship, Try Clean drive tuning the thrusters.
Maybe roll for lightweight mount on the Rails looking for a secondary bonus effect on Heat efficiency.
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G5 Sturdy has -20% to -30% thermal load on the primary roll, I actually have 2 of those in storage but they are lightyears away.

I was planning on buying an eagle to buzz around in, but when I scrolled through the CG shipyard I just couldn't resist getting that Viper. :)

Didn't have any plans at all engineering it, but it's growing on me. It's nice buying a ship with no engineering concerns at all, oh the good ol' days.
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
Morbad said:
As has been repeatedly stated already, the Viper really isn't up to the task of handling dual hammers without extensive modifications.

It should also be noted that shields cannot malfunction. They either work normally, or they are broken (0% integrity).



Clean drives consume the most power on average and have the highest standing heat on average. Yes, the thermal load when boosting is a bit lower, but in practice they do very little to help. It's why almost no one uses them.
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Are you sure?
Ive used Clean drive tuning on all of my over heating ships, especially the imperial ships which turn on a planet surface like a blast furnace and all my over heat issues have gone away.
The downside to Clean drive (if memory serves) Is a lower top multiplier (G5 clean = 120% / G5 Dirty = 140%) and a lower optimum mass which means alot more turning drift with higher mass ships.
 
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Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
Morbad said:
My FDL runs cooler, unless I'm boosting, with my dirty 5s than my clean 5s, and had exceptionally low thermal load clean drives and exceptionally high thermal load dirty drives.
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My experiances are different.
I plan to G5 dirty my Python and G5 reinforce my Conda shields later tonight. i will check the figures on my ships when im logged in.
 
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