Will the Starfarer's refuelling mechanic come online when the ship is flyable or is this a feature that is planned for further down the line?asked by Lock Ostrie
TL;DRChris Roberts says refuelling is something they want working, and debuting, when the Starfarer becomes flyable, including collecting and sharing fuel, though the ship is still a little way from flying.
So no we're actually that is one of the key things we would like to get working when the Starfarer becomes flyable is to allow you to refuel we really want to push, again we talked about these different game mechanics we've got parts of it in but not all of it in, so we do consume when we fly around, we consume fuel when we Quantum Drive and we have these Cry Astro Stations which just give you free stuff and obviously once you can work, earn UEC or Alpha UEC in our SC Alpha, we're not going to have thing be free, we're going to have shops where you can buy weapons. You got to go restock your ammunition or your missiles or you want to pay for the repair, and then we're going to have missions that you can earn some stuff, so you can do that, you can upgrade your ships, you can fix it and all these sorts of things.Refueling is another one of these things, we don't really want to have a million Cry Astro Stations around it's kind of a bit silly. There's going to be a few but we want players to fly around in their Starfarers and they can refuel other people we also want them to be able to collect the fuel they're going to use. Those mechanics we are actively working on those to have them be part of, just like when we had EMP debut with the Warlock we want to be debuting refuelling with the Starfarer. This month we're going to put the Starfarer in the hangar it's still a little bit aways off from flying it cause it's such a big ship, other things that come in with that, but we are working on having all that stuff running.