I'm going to go ahead and assume that there are no ships suited even remotely to shipping metal.
To fill your cargo hold with various metals, you'll end up with a ship mass at 11000% or so - at least, on the Llama.
Any alternate, more efficient types of cargo to transport early on?
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Re: Ship mass!
Surprise: cargo ships - like Plowshare and Dodo.
Yup, they are ugly boxes with thrusters that do nothing else, and not going to be easy to pilot when filled with metal, but at least you'll need only one run in most cases. And after all, "10000%" load for Llama will be about 2000% for Plowshare. Of course, Llama has stronger thrusters in the first place, and overdrive helps more. For metals, try Dodo - it got 1/3 of Llama's hold (unfortunately, the cargo pod doesn't work right) with 3x of its thrust.
Either way, consider thrusters comparable in cost with the box itself. Plowshare with overdrive-6 is not going to be pretty, but it's handleable, in that e.g. you may take all metals from a commercial station and mining base, and then still dock with Clydesdale.
Yup, they are ugly boxes with thrusters that do nothing else, and not going to be easy to pilot when filled with metal, but at least you'll need only one run in most cases. And after all, "10000%" load for Llama will be about 2000% for Plowshare. Of course, Llama has stronger thrusters in the first place, and overdrive helps more. For metals, try Dodo - it got 1/3 of Llama's hold (unfortunately, the cargo pod doesn't work right) with 3x of its thrust.
Either way, consider thrusters comparable in cost with the box itself. Plowshare with overdrive-6 is not going to be pretty, but it's handleable, in that e.g. you may take all metals from a commercial station and mining base, and then still dock with Clydesdale.
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Re: Ship mass!
Be careful when you save but open the csv file with calc or excel then look at the header line find the relevant columns and tweak the values.Save and check the effect of your edit in game,repeat if necessary.You should be able to pull up that original post by using your old username as the search term
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Why the necro post unless you PM me within 24 hrs I will assume you are a spammer and delete your account.
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Fire away, it's a copy/paste from an older msg; ironically, look who wrote itloki1950 wrote:Why the necro post unless you PM me within 24 hrs I will assume you are a spammer and delete your account.
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Thanks Wolf the words did seem familiar I usually don't bother with the search function just rely on my memory.
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