Fast ships are fuel hogs?

[Ed Kolis]

So wait, you've got a 2-engine Baseship and a 6-engine Escort, now the 6-engine escort uses the full supply use of every one of its engines for every sector it moves??? So the baseship is actually 3 times more fuel efficient... and an escort with 5 damaged engines is twice as efficient as the baseship??? This is weird, yet somehow almost right... at least with QNP where big ships also have more engines and so become fuel hogs as well... I would have expected something like the first move of a turn uses the engine with least supply usage, the second move uses the second best engine, etc...

[Fyron]

Yep, that is how it works. With no supply pods, the ships still use the same percent of their feul to move each sector though.

[Suicide Junkie]

And without extra supply tanks, every ship has a range of 50 squares.

[Fyron]

This is part of the beauty of Quasi-Newtonian Propulsion: larger ships use more supplies instead of less to go 1 sector.

[Grandpa Kim]

In time there will be a "Kyoto Accord" of the spaceways and we will all have to build ships with fewer engines to reduce pollution.

[Kamog]

This fuel usage calculation always seemed weird to me, too. Let's say you have a ship with 6 quantum engines. You travel 9 spaces and use up 540 supplies. If you travel only 6 spaces, you use up 360 supplies.

If you have another ship with 3 quantum engines and travel 6 distance, you use only 180 supplies.

So the fewer engines you have, the more efficient your fuel use. Can't the 6-engine ship simply turn off 3 of its engines and attain the same efficiency as a 3-engine ship?

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