Let's Talk Fuel

[darkwind]

Maybe we should just give players access to .beam, .pull and .chase?

As for the topic, no thanks. I think other people have made my point for me already, so there's not much reason to go into detail. TL;DR: the basic act of moving around in Freelancer (2003) should not be penalized. We want people to move around. All this does is encourage people to make even more alts so they have to fly around less. There is definitely a need for money sinks, but this is not how I'd implement them.

Previous jump drives were perfect. Fast moving across galaxy and useful for everything.

People were already heavily penalized with new restrictive jump drives with low range and heavy costs. Moving fast is now heavily costy and not useful for anything except moving empty. People were already severely punished to move around. -_-

You are now limited to move around only slowly. You can't use new jump driving freely all the time, because it is super expensive.
You can't use jump driving for trading/smuggling any longer, because it is costy and cargo limited.
You are restricted to move slowly for everything except travel bonuses for capital ships (which were nerfed to be weak in armor, energy, shields and guns)

The current jump driving nerfs made moving slowly across Sirius! The most annoying aspect of Freelancer of moving very long time and slowly is back.
Fair to say ships at least got Cruise speed faster so they can move at least faster a bit with conventional with system engines But this speed will not even closely compare to pragmatic efficiency of moving in single jump how it was before.

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