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Actually adding this would somewhat remove from people's RP in that it is no longer a Choice but is forced upon them. It would be taken for granted much like how you need an engine to take off in some other mods etc.

but not if it were a component. It would work exactly like ship hull components; when you fly through an asteroid field in your luxury liner... sorry did i say fly, i meant pinball... you always have to repair your ship. takes 3 secs, max. know any good trade runs through systems without asteroids? feel like sharing?
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Thought: could we ADD a button, like the spanner is for repair, a fuelcan for fuel?

but im not exactly following you about how it would reduce RP. whilst farming nomads, i got jumped by a nomad battleship. I had the barest sliver of hull strength left, no guns, and my thruster was shot off, and had to limp home on cruise and engine kill, slapping my regen buttons all the way. It is possible to survive without an engine (read, without fuel), and come into dock like a comet. Its just not very nice, and i wouldnt exactly choose to do it again.

In RP we take some things for granted, like outcasts cant use corsair guns, and thats not a choice a player can make. We also take for granted that the engines just work. How? energy is neither created nor destroyed, but converted into other forms. The lasers and sheilds we use aren't drawing power from anywhere, they just recharge - Solar power?

I think it will make things more interesting: your a trader with a load of fuel on board, and u meet a pirate who has a thimbleful left - it would make sense to run. your fuel-rich trader might meet a stalled freelancer and sell them some fuel at premium prices. your clan might go in for the filling station business, and have a ship docked in bretonia so that your allies could be supplied at competitive rates.

most people would agree that trading can be kinda dull, and they trade until they have enough for the next ship/weapon upgrade. in SP did u complete missions to boost your credits, or did you trade in the liberty systems? doing missions made more sense as it got you combat experience and there isnt much of a trade run if you restrict yourself to liberty as you are until u have 'turned this tinker toy into a weapon'. this ethos has carried over to MP, and i think that it is our loss.
perishable fuel/componentry is one simple step that has a wide range of benefits including the beginnings of a dynamic economy and a whole raft of new RP encounters, and im hard pressed to understand the arguments of those who are opposed to it.

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