Fuel Dump Button Please.
- Thread starter CMDR Pugwash
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I don't think so really.
You can partial refill in station, partial defill would be a bit pointless - if not to say dangerous and outlawed - so probably ability to fuel dump should be deactivated when docked and possibly subject to no fire zone.
(I think the same should probably go for dumping unwanted cargo, for what it's worth. You can do that docked at the moment. I roleplay bribing the dock workers with them but where do the cannisters go really?)
Fuel venting is 99.9% something you'd do away from a station imo and is mostly an explorer's tool. Say you jumped too far out, found some escape pods and need to save weight to jump back again. For me it absolutely has to be a ship based, not a dock based, system.
The fuel dump in movie Air Force One, and I think Die Hard 2, would be the way to go imo and if dumping with engines powered caused a few coughs and splutters, as the fuel interacts with thrusters, so much the better.
Sorry, I was on my phone. That's what I meant.
Can't remember the one in Air Force One, but that wasn't a fuel dump in Die Hard 2. All McCain did was open the fuel intake port (and that was from memory in the wrong place on the wing anyway, they are normally under the wing for ease of access, not on the leading edge where they would disrupt the air flow). Secondly I am pretty sure the fuel wouldn't gush out like it did, it isn't contained under pressure. It is like when you open the fuel cap on your car, fuel doesn't spray out under pressure does it!
Because it is not just fuel that affects jump range. It is vehicle mass in general. And the more fuel you take on board -- the heavier you are. It's kind of logical
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Because it is not just fuel that affects jump range. It is vehicle mass in general. And the more fuel you take on board -- the heavier you are. It's kind of logical
It's also part of the fun.
Obviously the access was moved, just in case any off duty New York City cops, happened to need it in a hurry!
In space I suspect it would gush - or at least hiss - if your ship is at any temprature higher than absolute zero? The vacuum outside should make it boil out I think?
The fuel dump was one of those QoL improvements for chapter 4 that I was hoping for. And this is the reason why the cancelled FFF for exploration was such a disappointment. The fuel dump was one of those things I wanted to bring up, and a bunch of other improvements for exploration as well. Such missed opportunity for Frontier to actually give explorers some quality stuff.
What did happen to the FFF? Perhaps putting a list of your suggestions together in a single post would stand a chance of gaining some traction. I got the impression from the live streams I watched, that they really are trying to do something for us Explorers. Things such as a Fuel Dump button are such simple quick wins that I'd be surprised if they ignored them, if they get to read them of course.
It got cancelled, as far as I know, or rather remember.
Here's the link to the FFFs we had: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/234-Beyond-Series-Focused-Feedback
I liked the FFF, but it was probably way too much work for Frontier to maintain and track. And the Powerplay FFF was unnecessary. It probably killed the whole concept because of the schytestorm it created.
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