Illegal/secretive passenger, silent running when leaving stations?

[caaront]

I am still new to hauling criminals, nut I took one for the extra 10.4 mil since I am heading that way, and I'll never feel confident if I don't start doing them regular, plus I was able to fill up quickly accepting them, in 5 minutes in fact.

I have been scanned leaving systems before so I hit silent running going out of the slot and it did not really start getting too hot until a few seconds from time to jump, I deployed a heat sink, and think I was at 7 degree's when it was okay to jump, lol.

Is it neccesary to do that while leaving a system with a criminal, just in case?

All I am sure of it sure does hurt to suddenly hear "Scan detected" followed immediately by "Message received."

The message being you just lost 10 mil cr's.

Another question:

I had just set a button for silent running, and one next to it for heat sinks, I then removed the trigger options for them in the firing order, is that correct so they do not conflict?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Another option is to stay inside a station and to watch your radar, until the path ahead of you is clear. Then just fly out and boost, and boost in a straight line, then charge the FSD, and only when charged - point your nose at your jump point. You need a relatively fast ship, though, at least 450m/s boost, so they wouldn't catch up with you.

[caaront]

Okay, thank you, it weill not hurt to load up some extra heat sinks.

Domb question follows.

If I have three sets of heat sinks and have heat sinks set to button 5 on the throttle, all the heatsinks even though they are in the different slots will automatically be used by button 5 right?

I am new to heat sinks, never carried any really.

[Turd Ferguson]

yes. you can be scanned any time. if your ship is fast enough you can boost and outrun security ships.... otherwise you're doing the right thing.

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by caaront:

Okay, thank you, it weill not hurt to load up some extra heat sinks.

Domb question follows.

If I have three sets of heat sinks and have heat sinks set to button 5 on the throttle, all the heatsinks even though they are in the different slots will automatically be used by button 5 right?

I am new to heat sinks, never carried any really.

heat sinks, unlike other similar modules will fire 1 at a time. even if theyre all active and bound to the same button.

I do it all the time fighting goids with 4 gauss guns.

also theres a relatively cheap mod that gives you 1 extra shot for your heat sink launcher for extra weight. in some ships its wort it.... on others you can go lightweight and carry 4 heat sink launchers that weigh less than 1 standard one.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by caaront:

If I have three sets of heat sinks and have heat sinks set to button 5 on the throttle, all the heatsinks even though they are in the different slots will automatically be used by button 5 right?

That's a good question, that I would like to know the answer, too. As I never equipped more than one. Maybe to be sure you might want to disable all but one heat sink launcher in the modules list.

[caaront]

I made it in, all worked perfectly, except for losing my internet connection for 45 minutes.

That time lost cost me a 10.4 million cr passenegr as he bailed as I was touching down on the pad at the arrival station (see my thread about it).

But I was able to turn in the others, includine the 10mil cr mission of the wanted passenger.

As this is just a passenger Anacond, and the missions come a lot faster when you accept the wanted and secretives I am going to remove the shield boosters and keep a chaff, and fill the rest of the utility slots with heat sinks, so I can silent run from/to all stations when I have wanted, or secretive passengers.

I got 4 in solo when I first signed on, then the last 3 when I flipped to private, in 5 minutes I had 50 mil cr worth of VIP's, that was fast.

I shall resist the temtaion of taking any more missions tonight and will get the extra services on my cellphone in the morning so I can use it as a mobile hotspoty if it haPPENS AGAIN.

i AHVE DONE IT BEFORE AND IT WORKS IN A PICH AND SAVES YOUR CREDITS AND REP.

Sorry for the caps.

[caaront]

Thank you boith.

[caaront]

That 10.4 mil cr I lost would have put me back above a billion cr again, dang.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

if your allied between runs you basically don't have to worry about scans in my exp
i have been running crims A-B for weeks now because i can't be bothered B-flipping
no boosting, am using DC and po-po have not scanned me once
i have had only 1 loss to a scan caused by a BH who poped in at station and managed to scan me just before mailslot entry and that is it

[caaront]

I am scanned every single time I enter Smeaton or Jemison, I am pretty much allied at one, and 100% allied with the other, and yet everytime I am scanned

Thats why I got so mad when I made the video of myself enetering jemison at 144 and not being scanned and everybody was like "You are allied there, this is crap and stupid, it won't work everywhere, blah blah!!!"

I was just on my way, dedcided to hit Fraps and record and was flayed for it.

They were saying to make another one at another station.

I felt that if they questioned my veracity on the matter I would not waste my time with them.

I am going to do something. Be back shortly.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

*shrug* seems to work for me
i do fly nice steady patterns that mimic the NPC pattern
doing that seemed to fix the times i was being scanned beforehand

[caaront]

I made it just now slowly without being scanned, lets just say that it happens often enough to make me paranoid as heck, and the few times I took for granted on secretive pax that I would not be scanned, I was and failed, lol.

I was not talking toward you, I just thought of the bad comments on making a helpful video and it made me salty, I am sorry for the way it looked.

[Bannor]

I am fully allied at both the stations I leave from, as well as the stations I 'm going to, when I do passenger runs. That means fully, 100% allied with *all* factions at both ends. I find I'm scanned MUCH less than I was.
I'm also interdicted on the way there a LOT less now - though I'm not sure how much the release of 3.0 has to do with this.
Personally, I never boost, nor do I use heat sinks. I probably don't use heat sinks *because* I don't boost (boosting raises ship temperature).
I do use silent running. I make sure all my passenger ships are fully A-rated - they run cooler like this, and take longer to heat up during silent running. I have *MORE* than enough time from activating silent running to get into a station, without boosting and without reckless flying.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

along this lines i have been looking at engineering (don't even have horizons yet LOL)
and i see alot of things that increase heat and thermal load
for instance everybody wants dirty thrusters to go faster, but would clean thrusters be a much better pick in regards to what we are talking about?

[caaront]

I want to do cooler running engineering on the ship eventually. I don't act like a fool, I just drive smoothly fro a-b and b-a.