How many jump drives?

[Jones]

How many jump drive do you use on your ship. Im building a pretty large ship and am putting 4 jump drives. Not sure if this is overkill or not enough... How many do you use? (and yes I know it depends, im just asking how many YOU use)

Cheers

[EvilKlown]

I tend to favor 4, but I am pretty new to the game so I'm not sure if thats practical or not...

[Chilly]

Depends on the size of your ship and if you want backup jump drives incase one gets damage.
If your going with 2, put 1 jump drive at the front of the ship, and the other at the back
If 4 do the same as the other suggestion ^ or put 2 jump drives on either side of the ship
Or go with 1 on everyside of the ship
Minimum of 2 jump drives anyway

[EvilKlown]

Cmearsx, is the purpose of placing the drives that way just to reduce the chances of something like getting hit in one spot and losing it all, or is there some other benefit?

[Chilly]

Originally posted by EvilKlown:

Cmearsx, is the purpose of placing the drives that way just to reduce the chances of something like getting hit in one spot and losing it all, or is there some other benefit?

Well either way you would want at least 1 backup anyways. What if your in a ship battle that your losing to, and you cant escape, your jump drive can get your to safety no matter if your ship is complety shredded

[EvilKlown]

I was refering to your suggestion about the positioning more than anything lol. Being somewhat new to the game I get curious about builds and such.

[MaximumTrekkie]

Originally posted by Jesus Christ:

How many jump drive do you use on your ship. Im building a pretty large ship and am putting 4 jump drives. Not sure if this is overkill or not enough... How many do you use? (and yes I know it depends, im just asking how many YOU use)

Cheers

I don't play survival, and In creative I only build HUGE ships. So, I typically go with at least 8-10, which will often give me a range of around 600-1000 kilometers. I might go for up to 20 (but that was for my 150,000,000 kg build)

I would say it really depends on if you want something long-range for attack and resource gathering, or if you need something short-range for defense and resource gathering. It also depends on the mass of the ship. I'll just say that if you're using light armor, 4 should be fine. Heavy armor, go with maybe 6-8. More than one layer of heavy armor DEFINITELY 8+
I typically have 3-5 layers of heavy armor because none of my ships are ever going to be in survival, which is why I have so many jump drives.

[callme-jk]

1-6. But i wish one could be enough...! but because of fail-design. -.-

[jandraelune]

1 Jump drive every 1.2m/kg of Mass at a minimum this inclueds any small craft you want to jump with it that are attached.

[fabricator77]

As the ship increases in weight, the distance a single Jump drive can carry the ship decreases.

I was building a ship which was mostly jump drives, with a large reactor, solar panels and a battery. It's special purpose was to transport salvaged ships/space stations the 50-300Km back to home base.

[Jel]

My Survival Carrier jumps on 17 JumpDrives with max Distance 3600 KM :) Thank Keen we don´t have to half the distance for every ship docked any more...