What's the fuel efficiency difference between larger versus smaller ships? If you are carrying the same weight, how much difference will there be? How much will we need to "right size" our ship to any given mission?asked by Jmack
TL;DRPete Mackay says they're still analysing fuel costs and operating costs for hauling cargo, aiming to balance them so neither big nor small ships are clearly the better way to make money.
That's a really good question. Right now, we are definitely in the analytics phase of that to try and figure out the total operating costs of hauling cargo. Because, that is a scenario... before with all of the non-cargo-hauling ships, their masses are all relatively close together, but now that we're adding the cargo ships the range of masses is getting so much larger. We have to really think about how fuel costs are going to play into that. We want to make sure that it's balanced so that it's no efficient that the big ships are the only way to make money, but the reverse of that is that we don't want to penalize players in fuel costs so much that they actually make less money than if they were using a fleet of smaller ships. We are definitely looking into making sure that both sizes of ships can be really fun to play for everybody.