Warp drives

[evnant]

do i need to keep each of the upgraded drives installed once i get the next? i have the cadmium the emeril installed at the same time but idk if i NEED both or does the higher one also work for the lower ones?

[SaD-82]

Yes to the second part. In fact, you're just needing the indium drive to unlock all systems.

[evnant]

copy that ty. nto sure how to get the indium drive, im finshing up the artemis path now and its sending me to the core but i never picked up the 3rd drive.

[Ash]

Originally posted by evnant:

copy that ty. nto sure how to get the indium drive, im finshing up the artemis path now and its sending me to the core but i never picked up the 3rd drive.

Try to get Anomaly missions, they send me to a blue star systems quite often. Also you can try your luck with buried caches - sometimes scrap items found there could net you a couple hundreds of indium or emeril.
Frigate expeditions can sometimes bring star metal, though it is a long wait.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Once you have the Indium drive, the only reason to keep the other two is they provide 50 lys additional distance. Not really meaningful, but worth it if you got the room.

[wkitty42]

i always keep all three drives plus the emergency warp and whatever addons they have... for the maximum adjacency bonuses, i arrange them in a plus shape with the hyperdrive in the center, the cadmium, emeril, and indium drives in the middle sides/top/bottom, and the addons in the corners...

from memory, like this eg:

  UG  ID  UG
  CD  HD  ED
  UG  EW  UG

HD = Hyperdrive
CD = Cadmium Drive
ED = Emeril Drive
ID = Indium Drive
EW = Emergency Warp Drive
UG = upgrades

but the key is to place them and look to the right at the warp distance... move them around and watch how the distance changes... i just go for the largest distance and the layout may not be in the specific arrangement depicted but the upgrades are always in the corners and the drives making the plus with the hyperdrive in the middle...

it should also be noted that you can place more upgrades in the other sections of the ship, too... i have one ship that has the above in the Technology area with additional upgrades in the main storage area and now with the new cargo area, there's room for even more... the trick is, as noted above, to watch your warp distance meter on the right...

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by Ash:

Originally posted by evnant:

copy that ty. nto sure how to get the indium drive, im finshing up the artemis path now and its sending me to the core but i never picked up the 3rd drive.

Try to get Anomaly missions, they send me to a blue star systems quite often. Also you can try your luck with buried caches - sometimes scrap items found there could net you a couple hundreds of indium or emeril.
Frigate expeditions can sometimes bring star metal, though it is a long wait.

You don't need Indium to make the Indium drive for your starship. You only need it for a Freighter, but you can get the starship drive first, then use that to get metal from a Blue star system.

[lordoftheapes79]

Originally posted by evnant:

do i need to keep each of the upgraded drives installed once i get the next? i have the cadmium the emeril installed at the same time but idk if i NEED both or does the higher one also work for the lower ones?

No. Each one does everything that came before it, but having them all does add to your hyperdrive range. Since I do most of my warping with my freighter anyway, I rarely put anything more than the indium drive in any of my ships these days.