Do I need all three drives installed?

[Ryan]

Do I need the cadium, emeril and indium drives installed to reach all the different colour planets or do I just need the indium?

[M͕͕͗͗i͕͕͗͗y͕͕͗͗o]

yes. all of them. also if you install all it will increase your jumping range

[dalgo]

Try just the cadmium drive! When I built that I found I could go to any star system in range. They might have fixed it now though.

Edit - too late, they have plugged that hole, I just tested it. Came in handy for me initially though.

[Chronverge]

Depends or your playstyle. IMHO you really don't need all three unless you really want to max out your range and rush to the centre. If you are concerned about cargo space, once you have access to Indium drive + 3x S-class mods you should be sitting at around 1300ly range in mid size S-class explorer. It all boils down on how you link them to get the max bonuses.

Someone please correct me if i'm wrong, but from what I've seen, the Cad and Emeril drives give around 50ly bonus each. Not much concidering the s-class mods can give up to 270 ly each

[tattmann]

To reach all star systems, no. Just the Indium drive. All my ships have just the Indium drive.

[PH4T3 <*.*>]

Originally posted by tattmann:

To reach all star systems, no. Just the Indium drive. All my ships have just the Indium drive.

This is the correct answer.

[MeDaDaddy]

Originally posted by PH4T3 <*.*>:

Originally posted by tattmann:

To reach all star systems, no. Just the Indium drive. All my ships have just the Indium drive.

This is the correct answer.

This answer is correct too (!)

Each "next" drive covers the star types unlocked by the previous one.
So you can delete Cadmium when you get Emeril and then delete the Emeril when you get the Indium and (as Chronverge mentions in Reply#3) Mods bought with Nanites will give you better range than the earlier drives.

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by PH4T3 <*.*>:

Originally posted by tattmann:

To reach all star systems, no. Just the Indium drive. All my ships have just the Indium drive.

This is the correct answer.

Still wonder why there is so much misinformation on this as well as owning multiple ships without a freighter going around in the community.

But yeah only Indium drive is needed to go to all star systems in range, this is a feature since start of the game even if some people tell you it is a bug which isn't been fixed in the last 3 years.

[BADSPistawful]

Put 3 s class upgrades in tech slots and 3 in ship storage and just use the indium drive.

[Markus Reese]

remember also that the researched upgrades dont add to the upgrade cap. So all the S and all the drives

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Ydyp:

Originally posted by PH4T3 <*.*>:

This is the correct answer.

Still wonder why there is so much misinformation on this as well as owning multiple ships without a freighter going around in the community.

But yeah only Indium drive is needed to go to all star systems in range, this is a feature since start of the game even if some people tell you it is a bug which isn't been fixed in the last 3 years.

There's been misinformation in every community since before the concept even existed.

[Ryan]

I'll get rid of the cadium and emeril drive then and just keep the indium drive with some s modules upgrades. Thanks all