I’m outfitting Conda for sightseeing adventure missions for some quick money and quick Explorer exps. I can easily find the sweet spot of mass/performance of most components (power plant, thruster, distributor, shield, etc) and engineering accordingly. But I can’t understand why I’m not permitted to downgrade Sensor to class 6,
Basically a class 8 doesn’t grant you any benefits other then 1km longer in passive scan range, and it’s 4 times heavier than a class 6 scanner. I ended up engineering an 8D sensor with G3 lightweight, witch reduce mass to 32t with compromised scanning angle (though I didn’t notice much difference).
Why can’t I downgrade the sensor ? What’s the point of such design ? In real world we’d just install an array of smaller antennas if we need to boost signal gain and double the receiving range, without losing too much receiving angel. This of course won’t quadruple the mass or power consumption, if you make the scan sequential.
Basically a class 8 doesn’t grant you any benefits other then 1km longer in passive scan range, and it’s 4 times heavier than a class 6 scanner. I ended up engineering an 8D sensor with G3 lightweight, witch reduce mass to 32t with compromised scanning angle (though I didn’t notice much difference).
Why can’t I downgrade the sensor ? What’s the point of such design ? In real world we’d just install an array of smaller antennas if we need to boost signal gain and double the receiving range, without losing too much receiving angel. This of course won’t quadruple the mass or power consumption, if you make the scan sequential.