New Patch: Fuel

Thats not the planetary system.. that's a planet and its satellites. I am talking about orbit around the star.

The nav screens go like this.

Planet + Satellites = 1 fuel to travel between them
Right click once....
Sun with its Planets.
Click on of those...
Another Planet and its Satellites. These should cost a small amount to travel to as well.

 

You do know that there's a system level between galaxy and planet cluster, right?

 

No, that is the planetary system I'm talking about. It has 2 orbiting planets. 1 is a gas giant with 1 moon, 1 is a snow planet with 1 moon.

I'm a space nut Blue, I know the different between satellites and solar systems. My solar system has 3 planets/bodies to land on.

See above.

 

Thats some unlucky RNG then...

Let me guess... a blue giant?

 

Red dawrf by the looks of it.

 

I know yellow stars have the most planets... in the range of the 20+ I was talking about. So... uhm. I guess it's a matter of luck. I apologize for stating information that is only correct some of the time. I forgot about the other star types ...

 

Extremely unlucky if that's the case.. Also something for the devs to fix. But then again, in such case you can just reroll the character.

 

So what then? keep rerolling until I get a good starting system? Because that is an issue in itself if fuel is then going to become limited.

Either way, this is getting off topic. Back to the issue, a lack of alternative fuel or change in the fuel system is really needed, as it is, it's starting to force playstyles on people who don't want to spend the majority of their time digging.

 

Maybe the campfires should have a duration and turn into Charcoal once it ends that has to be picked up by destroying the burnt Campfire? You still need Coal to make torches-Campfire so get some coal back that way?

 

There should still be enough fuel on your first planet to get to another system with a good star. You just have to take a bit to get there.

 

Fine, 3 wood for 1 charcoal which acts as 1 fuel.

 

That only helps if starting planet even has trees. Unless we can use fibers>Into fuel.
And wood>charcoal is not bad, but it depends if trees regrow or not. Deforesting entire planet just to get off is ...silly and greedy and just plain cruel.

 

Yeah there probably is, but I still don't want to spend the majority of my time having to dig for coal every time I go to a different planet. Especially if that planet is ass (Maybe I overestimated my heat and it's too cold, and I end up freezing to death half the time). As it is, I did that the first time I played, I didn't realise you could use wood and spent a good portion of my time collecting coal, it almost completely put me off playing, because it was just so tedious and boring, it gets better once you get to gamma/x sector, since coal is massively abundant then, but that doesn't help early game.

 

I think you've come to the wrong place, no dis-respect.

 

If you like exploring than you move around alot, but even pre-patch it was easily to pick of coal enough close to the surface or even on the surface for a flight between the stars. Just stop once in a while and grab that deposit of coal you are standing on.

*Edit: If I remember correctly I had something like 3000 coal stored in the fuel chamber for future use.

 

i have had a chance to bunny hop between planets, a stack of 50 coal can get you to a few planets provided its in the next patch of planets not far away. it seems to be i had around 74 coal and got something like 150/180 fuel. much much better than burning 1k+ wood

 

Coal is 1:2, wood was 1:1. So no, 1000 wood is much better fuel amount compared to 74 coal. It was also easier to obtain, which is an issue, but not the issue I have.

I have 69 coal from doing just that? Where can I go? 1 other planet, because of RNG. As such, I'm going to be forced to mine down so I can get more coal.. Which just isn't fun for a lot of people.

 

I agree with the OP. Moving from system to system shouldn't be a chore. Now it is. Coal is already useful. I should be able to throw anything flammable into the engine to gain some fuel. Hell, let me throw tents in there. It only gives me 1 fuel? I dont care, at least it's something. Reducing options is generally BAD.

 

Considerign wood is no longer fuel, and they seemed to have changed how the fueling goes i dunno but i didnt have much coal and i have bunny-hopped a few planets so far off probably a good 2/3 coal deposits.

 

In before converting wood into coal a la minecraft