Ok, i dont know if this is bug on the ship, or what it is, but this happened to me not first time with this ship. simply, you use cm, you are out of energy, but energy is not regenerating....
and this situation was longer as 8 minutes, until i exploded ... energy on 0, and you can not use only thing that use energy on that ship. cna someone look on that?
the zoner whale - like other "small" transports - has a SMALL powerplant. - this powerplant regenerates 3000 units / second.
if you do have a LARGE shield equipped though - the shield regeneration will need 3000 units / second to regenerate the shield.
so - if you are being shot at ... you do in fact NOT regen energy. if you also happen to have a heavy CM or practicly anything that needs energy ( like moving, steering, cruise, weapons ) - you will loose energy wtihout regenerating.
if the energy level drops below zero, the ship becomes immobile ( not even be able to steer )
the solution - mount a smaller shield. 100.000 shields are meant for powerful transports. - the most efficient shield for the zoner whale is the 6 second regen shield with 30k capacity ( civilian transport shield lvl7 only needs 500 energy units / second ) and mounting only an adv / enh. CM instead of the powerhungry heavy CM. - the zoner whale isn t meant to engage in combat.
those that fly it should make sure that they are neutral to all the NPCs they ought to be neutral to. - which only leaves players as enemies. ( and nomads ) - the best defense against players is to reason with them ( as stated in the ID ).
yea - you bet... the way i found that out was by becoming immobile while being killed by 2 nomad fighters in kappa ( loosing 10.000.000 cargo iridium ) - after loosing 10 million, you just WANT to find out why:)
mind, my impulse engine stopped around 800 meters before the 74 jumphole. - soo bitter to be 300 meters from the "cutscene" range - and not being able to turn the shield off to be able to move to the jumphole haha.
indeed. The whale has no weapons, so it has no defenses vs strong NPC's.
Giving more energy to the whale should not harm too much game vs other players, since once disrupted, the whale is a sitting duck anyway
more important, powertrading? when you think that routes from delta to newcastle,from omega 47 to alberta, from burgundy to minnesota are powertraing, then show me please routes that you think are not powertrading ...
(and other thing is that i will have visited as much system as is possible and discovered all systems)
Quote:more important, powertrading? when you think that routes from delta to newcastle,from omega 47 to alberta, from burgundy to minnesota are powertraing, then show me please routes that you think are not powertrading ...
Quite honestly, taking a route through a GUARD system (you know, a system which in RP should be locked down completely from civilians, like Alaska) is, in my opinion, ooRP and powertrading, if you want to head to omega-49, then why not use the jump hole from Dublin?
addition to 1st reply.
I had not been playing in the whale for a while. Any "red" station I get near will drop my shields quite a bit, plus the low regeneration power makes flying a whale a very dangerous business.
Please do increase the energy regeneration on the next update
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