Fuel Scoop .... Inter-stellar & in-system

[PinBlacniP]

With an active fuel scoop fitted ... in Inter-stellar & in-system travel ... all be it very rarefied H2 ... approx 1 mol per cc in-system and 1 mol per cM inter stellar ... for reality would we not expect to gather some fuel?

If implemented ... then when we 'really' start burning H as fuel for in-system travel ... (note: H is diatomic)

[richardpl]

Not realistic: you would either need to use more fuel to scoop such fuel or it would took so much game time to scoop it with engines turned off.
But I think that pioneer is not using fuel at all in-system travel, just for hyperspace.

[Brianetta]

Pioneer will use fuel in-system one day. If I get my own way, the ship's mass will change with the level of fuel in the internal tank, too. (-:

It's a nod to conservation of momentum. Our engines are reactionless at the moment, which is something that will never exist.

[s20dan]

If I get my own way, the ship's mass will change with the level of fuel in the internal tank,
Its unlikely to ever be implimented unless there are other reasons to track fractions of a ton (Or track objects in KG). But IMO we should have it, and should also not sell goods in 1ton blocks as it makes no sense. I had an old branch where a lot of this was already implimented (Tracking of fractions ect) It was the old volume branch and goods were given a correct value for density. So 1m3 of Hydrogen was weighing only 68 KG ;).. I mean from realistic point of view it all makes sense.. 1 ton of Hydrogen would take up a mahoosive amount of space.

[Brianetta]

There's no reason why the internal fuel tank shouldn't be really really big. The drawback of filling it right up would be that your acceleration would become pants. It'd become a decent tradeoff decision for pilots, increasing fun. We can hand-wave away the physical space required for all this fuel, of course. These aren't the fuel tanks you're looking for.

[Luomu]

Closing: this is more discussion than an actionable item