Let's Talk Fuel

[R.P.Curator]

Cons:
- Fuel consumption and carriage capability has and it imposes limits - fighting, trading, exploring. Sounds fun, but its tedious and another thing to watch out in an already crowded game with a small community that has a propensity for toxicity.
- It will limit trading for traders and pirates and will funnel them into certain routes with access to "petrol stations". This would be the 2nd time that the map and routes decrease in size since 5.0.
- Chases: pirate bomber chases a 3.6Ker or even a 5ker. A snub will have a smaller fuel reservoir and will consume it faster than a 3.6 Ker or a 5ker. So this would benefit only the traders and power traders.
- Fleet fights will be tedious "defend the resupply" ship or "destroy their resupply ship and run around until they remain out of fuel".
- If you run out of fuel while exploring Kepler or any Uncharted, and nobody is online to give you a cup of fuel. What then? I'll not mention friends trolling by "forgetting" or simply not resupplying you with fuel.
- Sieges will be even more obnoxious than they already are
- Mining in Earhart and Uncharted will become a true adventure, obnoxious and dependent on fuel
- Fuel and refueling implies more time spend in game or taking time from some other task to do it. This reduces the "fun in game". Some of us don't have it. Its added time that for many is a no go, which will shorten game sessions by making them tedious and "I have to fucking refuel!" will be heard in all chats and voice channels. What happens when an expeditionary snub fleet goes into a series of systems where they can't dock to refuel? What then? "Oh, you have to plan ahead and get a tanker with you". Ugh, please no.
Also, Omicrons are 100K or more. Where do you want to refuel there?
Its a dose of realism that is nice to have later, when the community is larger and more peaceful, with routes and ways to refuel so it doesn't turn out to be tedious and obnoxious.