Fuel Cost Per Light Year
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Crikey mate that's a hard question as variations in build will impact on each ship, that and cargo carried or if an economical or fastest route is used there are more variables here than nerf posts on the forum 
I'll try and get some figures for an Eagle when I'm back in game but if you could decide on specific builds for each ship it'd be a lot easier
I'll try and get some figures for an Eagle when I'm back in game but if you could decide on specific builds for each ship it'd be a lot easier
Excellent!
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Reason I ask is that there's a tipping point that fuel consumption out weigh profit. Fly a big fuel hungry ship limts what you can carry. Take as an extreme example, a Lakon 9 carrying scrap... would you always trade at a loss? What the minimum profit you can consider per tonne.
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Reason I ask is that there's a tipping point that fuel consumption out weigh profit. Fly a big fuel hungry ship limts what you can carry. Take as an extreme example, a Lakon 9 carrying scrap... would you always trade at a loss? What the minimum profit you can consider per tonne.
Ok here's some data for ya! Eagle spec below
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=40L,5QG5QG,2-3m5K5U2C3m3m3c,7QEmpT2Uc
Basic Eagle with a few upgrades (doing a pretend restart making cash from exploring and any interdictions that I survive ref this thread https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108483).
This is based on a single jump of 4.94 LY so it's close to optimum for a 9.4 LY max jump range. 4.94 LY with full tanks cost 18 CR to refill equates to 0.274 LY/CR that must be a huge MPG LOL.
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=40L,5QG5QG,2-3m5K5U2C3m3m3c,7QEmpT2Uc
Basic Eagle with a few upgrades (doing a pretend restart making cash from exploring and any interdictions that I survive
ref this thread https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108483).This is based on a single jump of 4.94 LY so it's close to optimum for a 9.4 LY max jump range. 4.94 LY with full tanks cost 18 CR to refill equates to 0.274 LY/CR that must be a huge MPG LOL.
Ok here's some data for ya! Eagle spec below
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=40L,5QG5QG,2-3m5K5U2C3m3m3c,7QEmpT2Uc
Basic Eagle with a few upgrades (doing a pretend restart making cash from exploring and any interdictions that I survive
This is based on a single jump of 4.94 LY so it's close to optimum for a 9.4 LY max jump range. 4.94 LY with full tanks cost 18 CR to refill equates to 0.274 LY/CR that must be a huge MPG LOL.
I'll use the same formaul for another ship. Your's looks like a good base to work from
Cost of fuel scales up with ship cost, as you undoubtedly know. But fuel usage per LY also scales up as you use larger percentages of the ship's jump capacity. That is jumping 10 LY at once uses more fuel than jumping 5 LY twice - quite a bit more. Higher rated FSD also uses less fuel for a given jump distance, so an otherwise equal ship with a D-rated FSD will use more fuel jumping 10 LY than the same ship with an A-rated FSD. Even ship mass matters.
It's a very complicated equation.
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This was discussed in another thread yesterday (can't find it right now), but basically the fuel usage is approximately logarithmic, i.e. jumping twice the distance in one jump uses four times the fuel than doing it in two equal sized jumps assuming everything else is equal (FSD type, fuel weight, cargo weight etc.) That's why the eco routes in densely populated space can get you over 180Ly on half a tank in a Cobra, but the fastest routes will have you out of fuel in 80Ly. It's costly to do even 30Ly in a Cobra on fastest vs eco. 2000Cr instead of 500Cr.
Putting in a big FSD and doing eco jumps is by far the cheapest way to travel, but it's sooooooooo boring jumping 3-5Ly in a ship that can do 18 or 20!