Fuel

[Deimenried]

Anyway, yes, I suppose it does remain valid. Even if the Nomad ships do use a form of fuel, it may be incompatible with human craft.

Thats what I was trying to say, but it kind of came out wrong. I suppose it depends on what your personal opinion is on the matter of what the nomad ships are. I think they are organic lifeforms to some extent, a host perhaps for a Nomad "pilot", but capable nonetheless of creating its own energy for weapons and proplulsion (although I have been told Nomad weps have no energy usage anyway). Anyway thats just my opinion. I have no idea what they actually are. Getting back ontopic:

And my point that all the ships very likely use a form of Fusion reactor, with fuel needs that are practically negligible anyway, is also valid. The reactive mass that a ship carries probably goes such a long way as to not really need to worry about fuel. Battleships would perhaps be the only ones I'd worry about, but you tend to be able to buy H-Fuel from those, so maybe not so much (this is based on shabby memory- I'd have to bring up H-Fuel in-game and see what the listings are to make sure).

I like that thought. It would keep battleships in house systems rather than just loping around the universe unreallistically but also allow fighters to scout and explore for long periods of time.

Perhaps there should be some kind of tradeoff between cargo-space and the amount of fuel carried (ie carry H-fuel in the hold, the more fuel the less looting/trading you can do)? Or perhaps carry the fuel in the same compartment as the shields/armour upgrades etc?

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