Fuel Scoops - Engineering?

[Skip Rockbounder]

I’ve not just considered these and other effects for years, but suggested them many times. “Shielded” is a worthless upgrade.

You have? then we have thought along some similar lines for some time
In an old RPG called Traveller we used to have scooping from Gas Giants and a risky scoop from small stars, with the hotter stars making it a potential death sentence, I often wondered why ED didn't do things this way as it would have made jumping to a new or unexplored system a real risk to be catered for, explorers would have to have extra shielding against the radiation and heat, often choosing between damaging their ship or flying out to a distant GG... but they didn't, and that's that really!

 

[CMDR X]

GIve them an AutoDistance + Speed option so we can scoop and poop at the same time.

 

[kris44dad]

I’ve not just considered these and other effects for years, but suggested them many times. “Shielded” is a worthless upgrade.

I think the default three mods of shielded, lightweight, and reinforced, while maybe somewhat useful, may also be a lazy effort to give modules "something" rather then nothing at all. I admit that may be an unfair assessment, but if any modules have only those three, they should have also at lease one mod that relates to their function.

 

[Berpol]

The classical lightweight is useless (0 times anything is still 0) and given that a fuel scoop does not do anything in a fight shielded and reinforced are less useful.

Advantages I see are:

• faster scooping
• less heat
• wider temperature range (more star types)
• variable speed based on star temperature (red are slow, white are fast...)

Engineering usually ballances bigger advanteges so disadvantages could be:

• slower scooping (you can get fuel from a lower temperature star but it takes more time to refine)
• more heat
• smaller temperature range (no red dwarfs but the others are faster...)

Or we get a Guardian fuel scoop.

 

[Riverside]

GIve them an AutoDistance + Speed option so we can scoop and poop at the same time.

I don't really support the idea of automating scooping but as a set up for that joke the payoff was worth it

 

[CMDR Cknarf]

If you’re having power problems, you could always shut a few things off, or set the scoop to a lower priority when in normal space. Can’t scoop without being in SC anyway.

I’m all for more effecient scoop rates, though.

Spoiler

Mining laser engineering WHEN

 

[Bloodsign]

Maybe a scoop upgrade that makes more star types scoopable. I don't know what other gases get vented from stars besides hydrogen, but basically "those" get scooped/converted too. (Helium?). Call it an "atomic converter" experimental.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

DBX?
One Slot size 4 should be changed to Slot size 5 and One Slot size 3 to Slot size 2.
DBX Problem Solved.

That would give the DBX god like shields. I think engineered fuel scoops is the way, but saying that, I loved my DBX and didn't mind the longer fuel scooping.