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[Plasmatic]

Like the title says, what dictates overload duration? just ship size? or are there some underlying factors that are involved?

[Jazwana]

I believe how much "over" your flux capacity the final single damage source put you has an impact - a single mg bullet over would be less than a torp, for instance.  Also the relevant hull-mod(s) and combat skill perk would affect it.  There are probably other factors as well I don't know.

[BillyRueben]

I thought you simply vent flux at your normal rate, so if you wanted to decrease the time you are in an overloaded state, add more vents to your ship.

[Plasmatic]

Hehe, this is the type of thing I would like to have cleared up

[Alex]

When a ship is overloaded, it vents at half the normal dissipation rate (so, strictly worse than not being overloaded, in that regard.)

The duration depends on the hull size, with a factor for how much it went above the maximum - so, right, a torpedo is likely to cause major downtime. It does not depend on how much flux you dissipate while overloaded.

[Silver Silence]

Hull size as in literally the size of the ship itself? (it's sprite)
Or hull size as in whether it's capital, frigate, dinky fighter?

[Plasmatic]

Hull size as in literally the size of the ship itself? (it's sprite)
Or hull size as in whether it's capital, frigate, dinky fighter?

I assume the hull size as in cap, cruiser, Dessie, Frigate or fighter..

Don't think the game keeps tracking sprite size, and that would be a rather dumb factor...

[Decer304]

I guess hull size is the class and possibly ordnance points?

[ValkyriaL]

If sprite size dictated overload duration, i would be doomed. =(

[Silver Silence]

I always figured it was something to do with your flux capacity. Never thought it anything to do with ships. Neutrino ships with their 0.2 shields and ~5k flux pool finish an entire overload in a couple seconds. Something with ~40k flux capacity, well, it might be done by the time you finish eating dinner.

[Nanostrike]

It's Hull Size (Thus Frigates can recover a lot faster than Cruisers, ect), combined with how much "Excess" damage was done in the overloading shot.

Hence we Strike Frigates can teleport in and use our burst-tastic little Antimatter Blasters at the perfect time to cause a lengthy overload so we can dump our Torpedos on them.

Sabot Missiles, Antimatter Blasters, and traditional Blasters are great at doing a sudden burst of damage for rather crippling overloads.

Torpedos do as well, but unless you're a very large ship that's toting one of the big multi-shot Reaper Torpedo launchers, it's a total waste to use them to overload shields instead of crippling armor/hull.