What’s the point of class 8 sensor ?

iNNo

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Yah the sensors design in Elite leaves something to be desired. I made myself a little chart to show the engineering differences for my KRAIT a while back:

SENSOR . . . . . . . . . . . MOD . . . . . . . RANGE . . . . . . . MASS
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6A sensor . . . . . . . . . . none . . . . . . . 7.2km . . . . . . . . 40t
6A sensor . . . . . . . . . . long range . . . 12.6km . . . . . . . 80t
6A sensor . . . . . . . . . . light weight . . . 7.2km . . . . . . . . 8t

6D sensor . . . . . . . . . . long range . . . .9.5km . . . . . . . 32t



The difference between a grade 5 engineered lightweight 6A sensor going ----> long range 6A is you gain +5.4km of passive scan range at the cost of +8X the weight (8t ----> 80t)!

8A lightweight sensors are 32t, that goes to 320t for long range A spec or +288t for SENSORS!!!! Wow that's the heaviest damn thing in the game right there, forget your armor or fusion nuclear power plant, the sensors weigh more than the most expensive REACTIVE ARMOR which are pure plates of hard & heavy metals lol...
 
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Morbad

Morbad
ulyssesric said:
Why can’t I downgrade the sensor ?
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The same reason a passive sonar array on small research sub or ROV is much less massive than one one on an Ohio class nuclear boat, even if they have similar overall capabilities.

Bigger ship has more area and needs more sensors for good coverage, more distance between the sensors and the radiators, and more conduits connecting it all together.

Navynuke99 said:
Meanwhile, IRST and EOS systems installed on modern 4th and 5th generation fighters can see targets out to that range, easily, and are light enough to fit into planes that weigh a fraction what an Anaconda does.
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Not passively and only from certain angles.
 

ExoForce

ExoForce
Ziljan said:
Frontier did try to make them have more meaning than this by having the bigger and higher class ones track better with gimbals & turrets, but players balked like they always do at the slightest hint of change.
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I remember some thread... Does the size still influence tracking performance?
 

philngraves

philngraves
Logically speaking, Elite sensor detection is based around heat rather than typical sonar/radar. Heat is directional detection. Therefore, sensors need to be able to face all directions to detect said heat, so larger ships need a larger array.

Beyond that, any irregular stats for different ships shows how thick the plates of heat detecting handwavium are... you know, for balance!
 

Trollymctrollerson

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Just to drive home the absurdity of the sensors, type 9 and 10 have a class 4 sensor. So there goes the size of ship/interference argument. Also, an 8B engineered for LR is what 512 tons? The sensor is heavier than an Orca or FAS. It must be made out of matter mined from a black dwarf star since when I target a sensor, it's about half the size of a sidewinder.
 

Vin58

Vin58
Right, why a none of the above option. No sensors are required when you are hauling 700t. The only things needed is a CB to tell the station that you are arriving and beep beep beep siren when you are reversing.
 
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