Fleet Carrier Fuel Efficiency

StarLord55

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Has anyone thoroughly tested the Fleet Carrier's fuel efficiency? Is it a linear relationship?

If not, I plan on testing this by plotting fuel consumption per 500 ly jump from a full tank to empty.

I want to check first to see if anyone has already done this. If it is not linear, then fitting a curve and generating an equation would be handy for travelers and explorers.
 

Andro

Andro
It's not the same as normal ships as in, you won't be more fuel efficient doing more (shorter) jumps to reach a destination. The weight of the Carrier does affect the Tritium consumption though, and eventually the range can start going down after ~23,000t of space is used. The lowest it can go is 480ly.

edit: tritium consumption formula:

10 + Jump Distance / 4 * (1 + (All Cargo + Fuel in Tank)/25,000)
 
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StarLord55

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Right, so in other words the fuel consumption is entirely dependent on carrier weight, not distance traveled. I did not know range starts to be affected as well, good info.

I would like to know the relationship between the fuel consumption and the weight of the carrier as fuel is used up.
 

Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
If the over all cargo level stays exactly the same throughout, I doubt a full or nearly empty 1000 ton "tank" makes to much difference.

Haven't researched it yet, so it's just a guess.
 

StarLord55

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Andro said:
It's not the same as normal ships as in, you won't be more fuel efficient doing more (shorter) jumps to reach a destination. The weight of the Carrier does affect the Tritium consumption though, and eventually the range can start going down after ~23,000t of space is used. The lowest it can go is 480ly.

edit: tritium consumption formula:

10 + Jump Distance / 4 * (1 + (All Cargo + Fuel in Tank)/25,000)
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Where did you get this equation from? If that's accurate, then that's exactly what I am looking for.
 

Andro

Andro
StarLord55 said:
I would like to know the relationship between the fuel consumption and the weight of the carrier as fuel is used up.
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Alright, so on my formula I have a condition that below 23,000/25,000 tons of capacity used, the range will always be 500ly, but the range formula following that is:

(500-10)(25,000)/(All Cargo + Fuel in Tank + 25,000)
edit: corrected 225,000 to 25,000

StarLord55 said:
Where did you get this equation from? If that's accurate, then that's exactly what I am looking for.
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Several places, but mostly from the beta phase of Carriers, and mostly from user gazelle and some others.
 
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GlowyHedgehog

GlowyHedgehog
Andro said:
(500-10)(225,000)/(All Cargo + Fuel in Tank + 25,000)
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Sorry, this doesn't seem right. If I use 25000 cargo and 1000 tank,

(500-10)(225,000)/(25,000 + 1,000 + 25,000) =
490 x 225,000 / 51,000 =
2,161.76

And can you elaborate, what's the 10 for, why not just say 490 for (500-10), or indeed 110,250,000 instead of (500-10)/(225,000)?
 

GlowyHedgehog

GlowyHedgehog
Yeah, thanks, I know about that and anyway can calculate fuel use quite happily on my spreadsheet. But I wanted to know about the formula which reduces the maximum available jump range when the carrier is nearly full.

In fact, spansh's plotter doesn't take that limitation into account. If I enter, say, Sol to Colonia, and put 25000 in the market capacity and 1000 in the tank, it calculates the first jump as 499.77 ly, which would seem to not be right; according to Andro's response, that should be limited to 480 ly.
 

777Driver

777Driver
alexzk said:
Somebody uploaded logs but didn't visit UC yet.
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So I was stealing somebody else's discoveries? Also on my trip back from Colonia to the core, on a previous trip I had found an Earthlike with a landable moon very simlar to our own (slightly larger) I died before submitting (around 2 years ago) On my return I was surprised to see the entire system had been untouched over the years, I tagged it all and sold to my carrier. The carrier was able to plot directly to the system.

I had a lot of passive scan first discoveries on that trip.
 

alexzk

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777Driver said:
So I was stealing somebody else's discoveries? Also on my trip back from Colonia to the core, on a previous trip I had found an Earthlike with a landable moon very simlar to our own (slightly larger) I died before submitting (around 2 years ago) On my return I was surprised to see the entire system had been untouched over the years, I tagged it all and sold to my carrier. The carrier was able to plot directly to the system.

I had a lot of passive scan first discoveries on that trip.
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My theory is map has internal flag there if it was ever visited by any human. So once it is set, you can request internal map by UC on board. Like Polaris. We're sure it was never visited by players. still can get map, as it could be visited by GM.
 

Unununium

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This is what I was handed when I asked for fuel calculations. It checks out every time I've used it.
So for max fuel efficiency keep your weight down by pulling out tritium (or any other commodity) from carrier storage to your ship. And because of the flat +10 per jump, longer jumps are better.
 

GlowyHedgehog

GlowyHedgehog
Andro said:
Alright, so on my formula I have a condition that below 23,000/25,000 tons of capacity used, the range will always be 500ly, but the range formula following that is:

(500-10)(225,000)/(All Cargo + Fuel in Tank + 25,000)
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Ok, so what about this formula, where's that from?
 
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