There is one big problem that some otherwise good ships struggle with when exploring: their fuel scoops are simply not adequate. There are a number of ships like the Diamondback X, Imperial Courier, Adder and Beluga that just cannot fit a powerful scoop.
Personally, i consider a "great" scoop speed around the 20-30 second range, which most ships are capable of, and 45 seconds to be adequate, but not good. The big outliers are the Beluga and Diamondback X, which are notoriously slow, and cannot do anything to remedy their speed, since there isn't an engineering option for it.
In addition, tiny lightweight ships, like the Hauler, Adder, Sidewinder and Courier encounter another major problem, and it's that the lightest SRV hangar weighs 6 tons.
While certainly not an issue for most ships, it does hit these smallest ships very hard, often cutting jump range by multiple lightyears. In my personal experience, the doubled weight of class 4 SRV hangars also rarely feels worth it, but this is not much more of an issue.
It should be pretty trivial, but still a major and very good change, to add engineering recipes to both improve maximum scooping speed, and lower the SRV hangar's weight a little bit.
Personally, i consider a "great" scoop speed around the 20-30 second range, which most ships are capable of, and 45 seconds to be adequate, but not good. The big outliers are the Beluga and Diamondback X, which are notoriously slow, and cannot do anything to remedy their speed, since there isn't an engineering option for it.
In addition, tiny lightweight ships, like the Hauler, Adder, Sidewinder and Courier encounter another major problem, and it's that the lightest SRV hangar weighs 6 tons.
While certainly not an issue for most ships, it does hit these smallest ships very hard, often cutting jump range by multiple lightyears. In my personal experience, the doubled weight of class 4 SRV hangars also rarely feels worth it, but this is not much more of an issue.
It should be pretty trivial, but still a major and very good change, to add engineering recipes to both improve maximum scooping speed, and lower the SRV hangar's weight a little bit.