TIPS CONFIGURATION SHIP

In the Equipment section of the Hangar, you have the ability to set up two seperate configurations on your ship.
This allows you to have two seperate setups to deal with varying situations. The most common configs are to have a speed config and a shield / guns config.
The use of configs during battle can massively sway your chances of success, especially in PvP.

Configuration Tips

• If you change configs, your shield level will also change to the new config's level, effectively giving you two shields. Ensure both shields are fully charged before combat, and when one gets low, swap config to have an instant recharge to the new shield.
• There is a five second delay between changing configs. Ensure you time your changes carefully!
• If you have a Cargo Expander on one config and not the other, if you swap to the config without and you are over its cargo limit, you keep the cargo you are carrying, but will not be able to pick up any other ore / cargo - Simply refine what you are carrying to make more space.
• Don't feel you have to repeat your Extras setup on each config. Have one Extras slot with your Repair Drone, another with Cargo Expander, for example. When you need to repair, just switch configs.

Most poeple have there own designed configuration. Because speed is essential, it is hard for those with few drones, to balance speed gens with shield gens. The best way for this is, to have two completely different configs. One for speed, one for battle. The main aim for speed is to get to a destination without being bothered by that evil goliath. Also mostly speed is for running away from enemies. Unless you have a Goliath these tips work. Also another reason, is alot of quests have time limits so it is best to be fast at speeding round a map. If you have a leonov and vengence this is generally not a problem, because they are the fastest ships in the range. But those who can only afford bigboys, a great way to ballance it out, is to have mostly shield, but also elite speed gens. Promerium can boost the speed generators with exellent effect. Its an expensive resourse and hard to come by, but the new addition to DO is the Skylab. Simply upgrade it to the point where you are getting promerium and send 50 units or so, to your ship. Then just upgrade your speed engines, and you will have 500 mins of speed madness.
Shield configuration will make your ship slow, but you will have space in your drones to add more lasers. just fill your ship with shields and no speed gens. then just fill your drones with lasers. This is most effective in the lowers as the aliens are weaker. but in the upper maps it is best to balance shields with speed.

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