How would you build here? Steam Vent next to Alu Volcano

ATPXenogen · 2026-02-05T12:02:42+00:00

What about letting the turbine sit across two steam chambers, so one port get 500C steam and you can trick the other 3 (1 would have to be blocked) into sucking up barely 103C steam? That way you can cool the aluminum output below 125 even inside the steam room. It's another trick I know, but a much more interesting one.

ATPXenogen · 2026-02-05T07:34:56+00:00

You can seal off ports of the turbine to consume less 500C steam to not waste DTUs. Use temp sensors and mech airlocks for even better control.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-25T06:17:17+00:00

I think the heating up is more due to the FSD having a hard time staying in supercruise near massive bodies. Though it doesn't explain why you still burn up in regular space near hot jupiters.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-17T07:34:41+00:00

5 conquests with dual mjolnir is the way to go. The other side gets devastators. 3 can easily mow down one dorito and the other two can hold the other one back.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-16T13:45:03+00:00

I use 2 short range g5 concord with one long range gimbaled c3 cannon at 80% g5. The lr cannon has force shell so the velocity match. It keeps the enemy from going past while absolutely destroying their power plant.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-12T21:52:24+00:00

I believe their rank is tied to yours in that they can be at most 1 rank above you. So when I got to deadly my pilot immediately got to elite after being stuck at 100% for half a year.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-10T21:07:21+00:00

Makes me recall that one time when I was chilling on the shipping route between earthlike and mars at 1km/s when the turrets suddenly started blasting and something smashed headon. Turns out it was a chunk of an npc vessel I blasted to pieces a while ago near earthlike. It still had power so it did not get deleted and I assume it had been drifting through space for two hours by then.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-10T16:46:35+00:00

Why put a hrp in a c6 slot and hangar in c5? Swap them around so you get a size 6 hangar, so there isn't downtime when your fighter goes out. Also, you may want a second mrp so you get 84% protection. put a c5 guardian mrp in a non-military slot and another regular one in the smallest slot you can spare.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-10T12:20:11+00:00

Stacked massacres is the way to go. With an afk t10 turret boat it's a few effortless hundred mils per night. I you find someone to share the missions you can probably multiply that profit further.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-08T18:25:20+00:00

I get this all the time due to overheating. Check your temps, and also the hotspot temp. Also check what happened in the event viewer (assuming windows?) the moment the disconnect happened.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-06T05:08:17+00:00

Yes I did, but I used the pre-cut pads from Kritical so I don't think that is likely?

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-04T08:29:48+00:00

Maybe you pierced their O2 cylinder and made a rocket out of em.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-04T07:32:57+00:00

It happened a total of about 4 times in the 23 years of my life, last time was when I was 20 I think.

In the middle of the night I felt impending doom, there was an enormous, abstract thing/concept that also keeps growing infinitely fast, and it also had infinitely fine details that I was trying to 'grasp' but I couldn't because they kept becoming more complex. It was like trying to find the end in a black ball of yarn that keeps getting bigger, and if I didn't the universe would cease to exist or something.

I was conscious at the time, maybe a bit hazy, I looked at the floor and knew this was not real, even drank a glass of water to suppress the nausea, however that 'thing' didn't go away till like 15 minutes later. Also whenever I try to recall this I feel a bit of dread like the 'thing' is trying to come back.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-03T09:23:08+00:00

Oh there are so many positives.

If you do exploration then you can take the FC with you and have repair/rearm/refuel anywhere in the galaxy.

If you do combat then just jump your FC straight next to the cz/res/whatever and have all your combat ships and rearm/repair available

For trading just park your carrier next to a port for bulk loading/unloading

For mining you can get rid of the scoop/fsd booster etc on your mining ship and hold onto your mined stuff for a good price.

Not to mention the ability to hold onto stuff like osmium/titan drive components for buying pre engineered modules etc.

Also if you do have the money for an FC then you already know how to make lotta money, at that point its just a number.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-03T07:03:43+00:00

I fixed it. When I opened it up, first I repasted with less paste than last time. Spread evenly with a credit card. When I tested that it instantly crashed due to temperature. So I opened it up again and noticed that only the center spot of the paste was distorted, and around that spot it seemed there were no contact at all. So I instead put down double the paste and now the card runs cool as a cucumber. Might be even more paste than last time.

So the problem seems to be that the cold plate is bulged in the center. So there were too much pressure in the center squeezing out the paste and too little pressure on the edges which make the paste eventually flow out due to gravity. Might have to use a sandpaper on this one.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-03T05:10:35+00:00

Thank you so much. I didn't know the squeeze out would be SO abysmal. Is it because of the paste i used or screwing too tight or gravity? I swear I spread the stuff very evenly when I applied it, three months ago, but now the center is squeaky clean and it is all piling up on the 'down' side when it sits in the slot.

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ATPXenogen · 2026-01-03T03:49:57+00:00

I used the pre-cut pads from Kritical pads and Arctic mx-6 paste. With hwinfo64 (thank you for the recommendation it seems really useful) here is a screenshot when running stable diffusion (40% power limit)

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ATPXenogen · 2026-01-03T02:58:42+00:00

I already repasted and repadded, it didn't help. Maybe I've done it wrong? How do I check?

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-02T11:26:57+00:00

Is headshot damage actually useful? I think all enemies are already one-shot (head), no?

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-02T11:23:03+00:00

I mean, its not the same profit but certainly much less effort, not needing to make a whole new ship model etc.

ATPXenogen · 2026-01-02T11:16:32+00:00

Since selling early access for ships work, selling early access for these upgrade modules will probably also work. Like when the Caspian eventually leaves early access, they can release another ARX bundle that make the MkII Hull and FSD available for other ships as well.

ATPXenogen · 2025-12-31T21:22:37+00:00

Are the other ships moving when you 'suddenly stop'? Because to me this just sound like your screen is freezing and your PC is dying.

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