Best setups for close-star travel

[Byamarro]

Did anybody made tests for close-star travel? What might be best setups?

 

[DrTarDIS]

don't. (or use fleets)

 

[Mork2]

don't. (or use fleets)

What DrTarDIS said. Last time I read about about traveling near a star, shields don't help you so your ships going to take block damage over time. Its not just one block I think it applies to all blocks or all the ones facing the sun. A good quote from the "green lantern" movie. The bigger you are the faster you burn.

 

[Az14el]

be small, have as fast a jump drive as possible, use adv armor
You could probably hide in most (BIG white ones, and blue ones, just stay away) of them for quite a few minutes with a very small well armored ship.
So long as the server hasn't messed around with sun damage settings

 

[StormWing0]

I've been testing using ships with outside shells made of planet terrain blocks. Not sure how well they work this build but it's worth a test again to see what happens.

 

[Cudgeon Kurosaki]

I just make my ship fast enough to fly through the sun unscathed. Not the most creative idea, but one that has worked reliably for me.

 

[Dire Venom]

Onservers with phsyics enabled, you could potentiality use one as a shield

 

[NTIMESc]

After reading this, I did a test using a docked advanced armor shell, and it failed miserably. Sometimes it seemed the damage hit both the shell and the ship at the same time. I didn't try more than one layer though.