As I make many multi-hop trips, I was thinking it'd be useful to have an indication of the fuel expenditure situation displayed on the HUD itself, instead of projected strictly on the galaxy map route.
I've doodled up a mock-up of what I thought it could look like & attached it to this message as a PNG.
What I was thinking was that each hop would have a blue overlay indicating the amount of fuel the jump would consume. Each leg would then be separated by a small, but visually identifiable gap. The final leg possible on the current fuel reserves would then be indicated with a more dramatic color (red in my example.) A further refinement of this control would to be include dynamic fuel replenishment via fuel-scooping. It'd not need to be real-time as fuel is being scooped, but maybe updated on a small timing delay (5-10 seconds).
Thank you!
I've doodled up a mock-up of what I thought it could look like & attached it to this message as a PNG.
What I was thinking was that each hop would have a blue overlay indicating the amount of fuel the jump would consume. Each leg would then be separated by a small, but visually identifiable gap. The final leg possible on the current fuel reserves would then be indicated with a more dramatic color (red in my example.) A further refinement of this control would to be include dynamic fuel replenishment via fuel-scooping. It'd not need to be real-time as fuel is being scooped, but maybe updated on a small timing delay (5-10 seconds).
Thank you!
