Ships Fleet Carrier fuel consumption question

Kort

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I was wondering if any CMDR has done any calculations of fleet carrier fuel usage based on various weight configurations. If the carrier has 25,000 tons of cargo in the hold how much fuel would it take to jump 500 LY? Also various other weight configurations would be helpful. The reason I ask is it would be very helpful to know if you have enough tritium on board to make various trips out into the black and make it back without having to worry about running out of fuel or having to go search for tritium.
 

GlowyHedgehog

GlowyHedgehog
That doesn't work. With M = mass / capacity = 25000/25000, and L = 427.65 (see below), then
Y = a*M*L + b*L + C
Y = [ (1/10000) * (25000/25000) * 427.65 ] + [ (1/4) * 427.65 ] + 10
Y = 116.96

but...

I use the formula from here:
Fleet carrier fuel usage formula usage = int(dist*(cargo+depot+MAX_CAP)/(4*MAX_CAP) + 10 + 0.5) MAX_CAP is 25000, depot is how much you have in your tritium depot, cargo is how much of your 25000 are used for services or cargo Credit: KAZAK0V and Gazelle @ EDCD Discord
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I tried this myself, with a full carrier, jumping 427.65 light years. The formula predicts 228 tons, which is what was used. Note: fuel in the depot does count.
 
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GlowyHedgehog

GlowyHedgehog
I ca'nt recall where I read this but there might also be a penalty to maximum jump distance where the carrier is near capacity. I seem to recall that the lowest the maximum jump range drops to is 480 ly, if you see what I mean. But it's only in the most full cases, most of the time the maximum jump is 500 ly.

Edit: No, don't think this is a thing.
 
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