Just be glad you don't have to pay crew salaries on bigger ships..
Python, fuel bill INSANE!!
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You know that the game is actually a fake of "reality"? It is not real, you know? Then why the balancing has to be real? Games throughout the history have had artificial restrictions. If you would make the attempt even to explain the reality according the logic, you'd have hard time, let alone games, which ARE not reality, except that they exists
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Yep, sure does.
Sure, but there isn't some important game balance reason for this. It's just a silly way to scale operations costs. I think it's given undue influence to fuel scoops, myself. Just having 2 or 9 Million to bank in a fuel scoop means that you can basically avoid the scaled cost. Much better to have used docking fees that could not be avoided, and leave fuel scoops for explorers.You know that the game is actually a fake of "reality"? It is not real, you know? Then why the balancing has to be real? Games throughout the history have had artificial restrictions. If you would make the attempt even to explain the reality according the logic, you'd have hard time, let alone games, which ARE not reality, except that they exists
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We dont even have crews So of course we dont.
If you are running the python on a trade route with maxed out cargo, then this is negligible operating overhead.
However, i think this thread was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek? So I may be missing the point.
However, i think this thread was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek? So I may be missing the point.
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Well, I don't know about that but this page has listed Anaconda as having 31 crew size since the first version of that page.
What's a fuel bill?
You're asking for real?
The cost of the fuel once you dock and refuel at a station.
Today I paid +30.000 creds for 2% hull damage (Overheat), and +40.000 due to hull tear. Indeed this ships operating costs are very high, higher than nothing I've flown before. Every scratch to the paint hurts but it also provides you with the best flying experience to date IMO.
This babe can fly, can fight and can trade.
I think the only way to keep up with the bills is to make one or two hour trading first, and then go do whatever you want. I'm now focusing on trading because I want to max out all the parts.
Despite the high costs I'm enjoying the hell out of this babe...
Haha, love this topic!
Alright then, only one Python topic to go!
what surprised me I have an asp. I got into a fight with a bigger ship got a 50 60 k bounty. but had 10 percent hull damage that cost 50k to repair. I might go back to my cobra I cant see that the asp is that much better
To be fair, this is the same reasoning I use when deciding just to buy the fuel and not bother with scooping in the clipper. (I know it's a cheaper ship, but still.)
fuel costs me around 210 thousand to 300k credits for a full tank depending on station rep for my type 9.
It makes more economic sense to scoop fuel in the Python.
... anything bigger than a Cobra, and I won't be leaving dock without a scoop
... well ok, T6's still tolerable, I guess.
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It's almost as if you use some kind of device to replenish your starship fuel without paying for it in some manner.
... anything bigger than a Cobra, and I won't be leaving dock without a scoop
Really?
To me, fuel cost was actually ok in ASP and T7. I did not use scoop with these ships, as benefit from having more cargo instead was covering the fuel cost of even "long" routes (40Ly).
Python however, is roughly 10x more than T7. So yeah, I bought a fuel scoop for this one. But not before...
On topic, I once read someone saying, on that matter : "It's like that, it's not going to change. You need to make up a reason. Think of it as special fuel, high octane. More expensive per tons". I like the idea.
Also, the irony of it all is, since the fuel is SO expensive, I did get a scoop, so in the end the fuel is free, which is... much cheaper than with any ships I had before Python
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Never flown Asp w/o scoop ... I use it for combat & exploration only, and due exploration the scoop is a must-have. (Never had a T7 - Clipper's so much better...).
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