From the fuel dock, it appears that the scoops and refineries do not make quantum fuel, and that it can only be replenished at places like Cry-Astro. How will long range ships, especially exploration ships, be able to replenish their quantum fuel reserves?

Well, there's two different ways. There's the truck stops or rest stops or whatever we want to call them. Then there's Starfarers. And that was kind of the idea. Obviously, we're going to have to go through a whole fuel rebalancing when we basically turn on OCS, going from Crusader all the way to Hurston, and then as soon as we go to microTech and ArcCorp, we'll do another rebalancing. But the overall goal for me is somewhere between maybe one to two hours of whatever the player's doing: they've got to refuel maybe once every two hours, depending on what they're doing at that time. If they're basically on their booster all the time, well, yeah, you're probably going to have to refuel. But if you're QTing all over the place, you might have to refuel more.

And if I'm allowed to speak in my own opinion here, I would imagine that regardless of how well we intend and how well we practice and how well we test and how well we research, whatever the version of how long you can go before refueling is when 3.3.0 drops will not be the same as it is in 3.3.1. We have this community that can sit there and put these things through the paces.

We will do constant adjustments. And again, what's in for 3.3 versus 3.4 versus 3.5, I can guarantee it will be different.