Son, get an A rated power distributor stat. It's one of the cheaper upgrades and, aside from the frameshift, is probably the most immediately noticeable. Everything recharges MUCH faster, and (I'm pretty sure) it makes your laser weapons stronger.

While you're figuring out your thruster problem, I'd pull the gun on that...

Edit:

Also, upgrade your sensors and life support to 'D'. It's very cheap and will gain you extra jump range. D class stuff is currently the lightest in the game. Ideally, you should upgrade to D asap. E stuff is shitty and heavy. You can cut your weight by a huge amount with these pretty simple steps. Don't forget that you actually sell your E class stuff...so you cut the cost down a little. Granted, if you're going from an E to an A... it's laughable.

This comment was edited on Feb 12, 2015, 21:21.

That sounds like a bug. You are no where near max power capacity. Unfortunately, I have no money, so I can't buy an Asp and try and replicate this issue.

Edit:

Just to be devil's advocate...you're not trying to install a class 6 thruster are you? Asp can only go up to 5. I don't mean to sound dickish...I actually had this problem before I realized what was going on.

This comment was edited on Feb 12, 2015, 20:43.

Ok so here is my Asp setup:
[Asp]
S: 1E/G Beam Laser
S: 1E/G Beam Laser
S: 1G/G Multi-cannon
S: 1G/G Multi-cannon
M: 2F/G Multi-cannon
M: 2F/G Multi-cannon

BH: 1I Lightweight Alloy
RB: 5C Power Plant
TM: 5E Thrusters
FH: 5B Frame Shift Drive
EC: 4E Life Support
PC: 4C Power Distributor
SS: 5E Sensors
FS: 5C Fuel Tank (Capacity: 32)

6: 6E Cargo Rack (Capacity: 64)
5: 5E Shield Generator
3: 3E Cargo Rack (Capacity: 8)
3: 3E Cargo Rack (Capacity: 8)
3: 3B Fuel Scoop
2: 1E Cargo Rack (Capacity: 2)
2: 1E Basic Discovery Scanner

Link

When I try to upgrade my thrusters the game tells me it exceeds mass. Soo what does that mean? How can I upgrade them?

I'd agree with Mr. Tact. Sounds like your power distribution is all messed up. That's weird though...I don't recall ever having issues with power on an Asp. Surely you aren't equipping six railguns.

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 12, 2015, 13:56:

SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 12, 2015, 12:51:
I don't understand why I can not upgrade the thrusters on my Asp. It says exceeds limit or something. So do I need a better power plant, or do I have to remove some stuff like cargo expanders to make the ship lighter?

Hmmm. Try putting your current build into the ship builder site. It will show you the power usage.

Thanks, I'll do that when I get home from work.

SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 12, 2015, 12:51:
I don't understand why I can not upgrade the thrusters on my Asp. It says exceeds limit or something. So do I need a better power plant, or do I have to remove some stuff like cargo expanders to make the ship lighter?

Hmmm. Try putting your current build into the ship builder site. It will show you the power usage.

Heh, I haven't tried plotting a long route using "economical" settings yet. I'm scared it will blow up my cpu.

I don't understand why I can not upgrade the thrusters on my Asp. It says exceeds limit or something.
So do I need a better power plant, or do I have to remove some stuff like cargo expanders to make the ship lighter?

Every time I upgrade my weapons I am dreading the moment I activate them the first time and they trigger the oxygen censor of the ship.
How can I make sure that doesn't happen?
I put so many hours into this game but in a way I still feel like this

This comment was edited on Feb 12, 2015, 13:09.

Vall Forran wrote on Feb 12, 2015, 12:38:

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 12, 2015, 12:34:
Man, I'm surprised you could bear doing it at all that way. It's tough enough with the normal jumps. Nice commitment!

I know! I would've committed seppuku by now. The new route planner is awesome, saves so much time.

I am hardcore like that
The new route planner is very nice and fast!
By the way do you guys get lines going everywhere on the galaxy map when you select fastest route?
The system I am in looks like a spider with a million legs.

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 12, 2015, 12:34:
Man, I'm surprised you could bear doing it at all that way. It's tough enough with the normal jumps. Nice commitment!

I know! I would've committed seppuku by now. The new route planner is awesome, saves so much time.

I know
When I first saw how much my ship can actually jump after the patch I was like holy crap!
I always thought that the route has to go through that many systems because of the connection between them or something along those lines. Like there are hub systems you have to go through in order to reach a certain system you can not just make a straight connection between them.
So I did not complain about it but now I see it was obviously a bug.
Oh well I am happy it's fixed

Man, I'm surprised you could bear doing it at all that way. It's tough enough with the normal jumps. Nice commitment!

Yeah that's why it didn't make sense my ship had 16-20ly jump range and I was doing like 2-3ly jumps.
That 11 stop rare run took forever!!

Wow -- that is crazy strange.

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 12, 2015, 12:06:
Wait, are you saying you plotted the route and THEN switched to fastest?

Other way around
Select fastest route first than hit plot route.
Just for checking things out I hit economy route than plot again and than back to fastest and hit plot again and the route did not change from one to the other

Wait, are you saying you plotted the route and THEN switched to fastest? You'd have to click on the route planning a second time in that case. I did have that happen to me once or twice...

Yeah it must have been a bug on my end than.
I remember specifically switching between economy and fastest route and the route did not change at all.
I know I have to click plot route again ones I switch between eco and fastest.

Anyways I am very happy that is works now. Those trade runs were a major pain in the ass and made my brain hurt by the end of the night

SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 12, 2015, 05:11:
Yup
Literally a 70-80Ly distance was around 15-20 jumps
Whether I had shortest distance or economical route selected made no difference what so ever.
The last patch fixed that.
I thought it was like that for everyone that is why I did not say anything

Very odd. The pre 1.1 the planner would default to economic instead of fastest (or whatever the monikers are) and that I couldn't do routes over 100 lys. But once I switched off economic and the paths plotted, I always got capacity length jumps. Never had an issue with it doing the route as you are indicating.

Vall Forran wrote on Feb 11, 2015, 22:48:

SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 11, 2015, 21:43:
I just saw a FSD for my Asp for 5mill
Wow this ship will be expensive to kit out, but I get something like 30Ly jump distance with that! Whoo hoo!
Looks like class 5 stuff is hard to find though. I can't even find any class 4 fuel scoops at the stations I visit on the trade run.

My class 6 "A" drive cost me $16 million. :\ That was a week of grinding.

Yeah this is a class5 - A drive
I gotta work for it because those jump distances are awesome!

Vall Forran wrote on Feb 11, 2015, 23:18:
2-3 ly at a time?!!! Wtf!

That's wrong.

I found that the pre 1.1 version would hang while trying to calculate a route. I would have to select the system several times before it would finally fix itself. But, yeah, even then it had to be less than 100ly.

I'm flying out to the founders world to attempt to get my t9. I'll test out the route planner.

Yup
Literally a 70-80Ly distance was around 15-20 jumps
Whether I had shortest distance or economical route selected made no difference what so ever.
The last patch fixed that.
I thought it was like that for everyone that is why I did not say anything