Let's Talk Fuel

[Lord Chaos]

I wanted to respond with a general point that I don't think came through clearly in the main post. The main purpose of this mechanic is the rp flavor and immersion, aka something that is tangible in-game that you can play around. I can today buy mox as rwx mentioned and pretend I need it to fly my ship, etc. etc. But that's not very compelling, and hardly anyone will inherently understand what I'm doing unless directly told - they'll just assume I'm hauling mox towards some pob.

There are other things which are involved in such a system, like the money sink and the pvp balance, but those are secondary. I guess I shouldn't have mentioned them to focus the discussion better, but I felt that it was important to bring them up.

The main parts of this discussion which I like is finding ways to minimize the impact of this mechanic on enjoyment while maximizing rp flavor. One aspect that I didn't really see mentioned is the ability to cruise faster when you have fuel in the hold, and otherwise everything is the same. This and other suggestions like only system gates/holes eating fuel are what I wanted to solicit.

Of course, it's good to have negative feedback too. But people seem to be assuming that this is happening, and that it would be implemented without any fine-tuning or playtesting. I can assure you that this is just food for thought. I also see a general view that I should play other games if I want to experience this. Well, this may be a bold statement, but I returned to disco because no other game comes close to scratching the scifi sandbox rp itch. Otheriwse, I would be playing it. No offense, but suggesting star citizen and eve - let's get real here. I'd much rather keep iterating on what we've nurtured here, especially with more tools on the horizon from Laz, Aingar, and other folks.

Thanks for contributing, and feel free to keep the thread going!

Many players believe (like i do) that regardles of what we say the Team will do as they please,
They seem hell bent on changing the game so much and so deeply that its stopping to be the same game we all love and played for years,
Meanng its becoming an entirely diferent game, one wich many may believe its not our game anymore.

This idea is from someone who doesnt really fly many hours clearly,
Altough on one side we could say this would be a good RP addition on the other hand there is the actual gameplay and this will not improve the experience for sure,
The game already has so many intrincacies i dont think its good to add unnecessary and reduntant stuff in ANY manner or shape, new players will have a even harder time,

However i could see this implemented in some very restricted ships, making it a CHOICE instead of something mandatory, this way everyone would be "happy"
In the same way that i sugested that the new mining and the old mining should exist together as overleaping fields to maintain OPTIONS, this could also be the case.

In any case and if this goes forword, a sugestion, ships could, if possible in coding, have the fuel stored like ammo so you dont need to mess with the cargo holds of the ships,

Thank you all for your time and work.