New kinds of PDCs

[Will]

Neato. Some things that are sort-of related to this that I have been thinking of:

Reduce the supplies that engines store by a lot (though varying for engine type, IE, solid rockets would hold more fuel "inside" than an ion engine) and increase the need for supply storage.

I have no idea how this could be done currently, but have a requirement of one "reactor" component for every X number or kT of engines/weapons/shields/etc. Might have to be a feature request to MM...

Change QReactor component to generate a fixed amount of supplies instead of unlimited.

Make sure that the AI builds lots of Supply Tankers.

[Suicide Junkie]

Simply reducing the engine's supply storage would do it, and I will probably have it that way in my mod.

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but have a requirement of one "reactor" component for every X number or kT of engines/weapons/shields/etc.

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For a trek mod, we were going to make the reactors be supply storage...
It would be the same as this acceleration as speed propulsion model, but would be Power modeled as Energy.

I am also going to make bases not have unlimited supply, so they have to be resupplied manually, or have solar panels.
All bases will have some supply storage and generation built into the hull, though.

[JenMax]

I don't know if this is do-able. If you want to reduce supplies carried by each engine, and you vary the amount of supplies carried by engine type, (your example, solid fuel inside "stores" more supplies), THEN you might also want to vary how much each TYPE of engine regenerates fuel per turn. Ion engines might get a bit of "fuel" based upon suns in system (amount of "ions" floating about to 'grab'), or allow some types of engines to "refuel" by skimming gas giants...(not original idea - read in book 20 years ago... ee doc smith maybe?). What do you think of this type of add on to engines?

[Suicide Junkie]

I would make those be separate components, so you can add as many ramscoops as you want...

Only problem is that you don't get any supplies from them when you fly through a nebula system .