[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Anyway, the fewer engines you have, the greater the distance a ship can travel before running out of supplies, even though it is slower...

Provided, as the others pointed out, that your ship has some extra fuel storage. WIth only the fuel stored in the engine components all ships regardless of number of engines have the same range.

To make fuel use dependant on distance travelled instead of number of engines used you could mod it so that there is one main engine component for all ships. Make it a required component that is max one per ship. Give it the fuel usage and supply storage. Then to that you add an auxilary engine component that has no fuel usage and no fuel storage. Allow multiples of these up to the engine limit for your hull size.

However this would be a bit hinky as if your main engine were destroyed in combat, you could still move using your auxillary engine comonents but you would not use any fuel doing so.

Have to think about this some more.

Geoschmo