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Since it's been two or three months since we discussed refueling on ISC, can you give us a primer on what refueling looks like in 3.17 and how it works?

TL;DRRefueling needs a Starfarer: the owner fills its fuel pods, finds a ship in need through chat or org channels (no beacons yet), docks, sets a price, and controls the fuel flow.

Thorsten LeimannSenior Systems Designer, EU PU Gameplay Feature Team

So first off, you need a Starfarer to refuel because this is right now our only refueling ship we have. We at least have two variants. We have the normal Starfarer and the Starfarer Gemini. And what you do there is you start spawning your ship at any harbor that you are at, then you need to open the vehicle maintenance services that you already know how to refuel. But now it looks a bit different, so we improved that a bit to tailor to the demands of the refueling mechanic and the Starfarer. So now you have two buttons, which one is the auto button and the other one is the manual button. And the auto button just refills your internal fuel tanks, while if you click on the manual button, it will open a list of all the available fuel tanks and fuel pods. So fuel pods are the ones at the outside of the Starfarer, the fuel tanks basically you use for the refueling. So you fill them dedicated with whatever you want to pick. So you can fill all six of them with hydrogen fuel if you like, but you can also fill three with hydrogen fuel and three with quantum fuel. And the next step that you need to do is lift off. And then basically you are up for the market and there, sadly, we don't have the beacon system yet. So you are reliant on chat communication or if you are in an organization, you either have Discord or TeamSpeak to talk to them to ask for refueling or offer you refueling services. And once you've found someone that is in need, you basically extend your boom arm, then a docking procedure takes place. You need to set a price for the fuel. You can even give it out for free if you feel like it. And then the docked ship goes through the very same process like you did on the station. So the ship in need opens again the mobiGlas, goes into the vehicle maintenance service, purchases the amount of fuel that the player needs, and you as the Starfarer owner then get the request, and what you do next is open the corresponding fuel tank to allow the flow for, let's say, hydrogen to go through the nozzle, and then you open the nozzle and you can control the flow speed there, so you have an impact on the time it takes to fill the other ship. And once the other ship is filled, you are done, and both can part their ways.

Star Citizen Live›EU PU Gameplay Feature Team·
Published on this date.25 Mar 2022