What about fuel consumption?

[Hash]

Hi Strail and everybody,
Would you like to make Void more realistic? Add fuel consumption to the ships (and also fuel tanks too!)

I don't have any idea of if it's easy or extremely complicated. I'm talking of a small window showing fuel level and when it's over then simply hull=0, ...you die.  
Maybe fuel for 10 to 30 min depending of ship and use.

If you do it then:
1) People won't stay for hours in front of Manhattan, Alex gates or planets
2) Traders will have to choose carefully their routes
3) People won't run away of combat if they have low fuel, or they'll escape if they have more than their enemies
4) etc.

I wonder if voidians would like to have it.

[Ghosty]

If anything i think its a waste of time for fighters, as for BS , its the best idea and Hamburg City server already does it for their BS.

[Burn]

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[CryptLord]

instead of fuel consumption for example when fuel goes to 0 u die. how about just decreasing money automatically . same as buying fuel.from the total amount. ? and if u choose to add fuel then it should be like when u cruise then more fuel consumption should be added to the current fuel depletion rate.

but overall i think its a bad idea

[Ghosty]

u cna be sure i wont be giving up my hard earned trade money for fueling my fighter. for a clan BS it would be a diffrent story.

[geromix]

Agreed on this with Ghosty-BS is good enough to feul something,otherwise i will go bankrupt if i went exploring in new mod.

[Hash]

Nobody said how expensive is fuel, I just talked about time without docking.

Let's say you have to dock 1 or 2 times to explore a system and it could supose (f.ex.):

5000credits for a light fighter
20K for heavies
50K for VHF and cargo ships
200K for battleships

How long does it take to explore a system? 30 min?

[Admiral]

This could be possible, prolly try making the fuel like a perishable commodity. because each perish deteriorates over time. The tricky part in this would more than likely tying this into money, or makin it so your ship blows up when you run out.

I suggest that instead of dying or draining your money, your just stop like in real life lol. That way you have to have someone come and transfer some fuel to you so you can move again. But this in itself would by quite a task as well

[Hash]

Yes, could be a possibility.

And what happens if nobody comes or your help is too far away?
Just wait 'til rogues come and die, I suppose.
Sometimes it would take too long, but I have time, ... and you? <):)

[Silber07]

I dont think it would be a good idea because of the wasted money.
If like you said you would have topay 50k for 30 minutes in a VHF or cargo ship , that was much to expensive.
Traders wouldnt make so much money anymore.(thinking about how long some traders worked till now...)
Or imagine your fuel goes to 0 in a PvP....that would be ....(dont wanna swear^^)
But I'm not deciding this ... so let us wait untill some admins or other serverstaff says something about this...


Cya Soon out there mates
Silber

[Babieca]

the gas price is very expensive and price is increasing everydays ,  anyway my ships doesnt work with fuel, I have gravity engines ^^

[Hash]

Tks for your interest m8s!,  

I hope Strail & Co. have readed this and will think about it.

[stefan]

i think is a bad idea making fuel.Wand to know why?because is anoyng for all of us and we will have to fill he fuel tank every time it deplete.Void won't be more realistic,so please don't add fuel to the new mod,it may be a great threat for all of us(except battleships cuz usually the battleships are stationary objects)
This is my oppinion