More fuel per second scooped through the power of Engineering and Guardians.

O'Roarke

O'Roarke
What fuel scoops lack, is even more fuel per second.

Give us an engineering blueprint that can do twice the fuel per second at twice the power consumption.
Make it cost Guardian materials, in particular the G4/G5 part of the blueprint.

Guardians are supposed to be wizards at force fields - as can be seen from their ruins, their beacons, even in the hybrid Guardian-Human SLFs that Ram Tah cobbled together.
Their forcefield tech can surely beef up our fuel scoops.

I just want my Diamondback Explorer to scoop faster...
Cheers!
 
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thunktone

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I'd probably use this if it were there, but it doesn't seem necessary. With the biggest fuel scoop you can fit to a given ship you barely need to slow down to keep your tank topped up. Maybe you just need to stop hiding behind a shield?
 

Sylow

Sylow
Hmm, yea. We need to be able to engineer fuel scoops, so they do more for the same size... or rather, that we can use smaller fuel scoops for the same job, allowing us to use bigger combat oriented modules in the freed up slot. Hello again, power creep.
 

O'Roarke

O'Roarke
thunktone said:
With the biggest fuel scoop you can fit to a given ship you barely need to slow down to keep your tank topped up. Maybe you just need to stop hiding behind a shield?
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Your advice is truly appreciated, but there are plenty of ships out there that have a grating waiting time as you refuel from a max jump, even with the largest top tier scoop -- the DBX is just one of many.

And the above, "scoop moar and faster", is just ONE suggestion; there could be plenty of other blueprints as well, like scooping the fumes off a gas giant by scraping it's exclusion zone.
Or scraping the exclusion zone of a white dwarf or neutron star - yet another different blueprint. They too have moderate hydrogen/helium envelopes, barring very rare versions.
Maybe these special fuelscoops can still scoop from a main star, just (due to their specialization) less efficiently -- slower.

Give us a bit more choice then just "it's shielded now".
Is that even a thing? Are there "gankers" out there like that to snipe a D-rated explorer's fuel scoop (and likely also their AFMU)?

With the above you could outfit your fuel scoop to "scoop faster" or "scoop more versatile".
I understand that the last part is not something the Fuel Rats would like, but still...

These suggestions above fit the "polish phase" of 2019-2020's Elite.
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
A 100% increase seems excessive but, a 10-20% increase might be more practical if the mod does not increase the scoop rate of the smaller scoop to the point where it is actually faster than a larger fuel scoop. o7
 
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