Passenger liners and mobile miners\refineries

[Person012345]

I believe when they have harvesters on them, they are automatically set to 10% fuel.

I actually think it's when they're marked as tankers. That is, I know it does it for tankers, I can't say for sure it doesn't do it for ones with harvesting modules.

[Erik L]

I actually think it's when they're marked as tankers. That is, I know it does it for tankers, I can't say for sure it doesn't do it for ones with harvesting modules.

Wouldn't 10% fuel on a tanker sort of defeat the purpose of a tanker?

[Rabid_Cog]

I think tankers aren't automatically filled when you build them, the idea being that their tanks are so vast that if you fill them all you would rapidly empty your fuel stockpile.

[Theokrat]

Wouldn't 10% fuel on a tanker sort of defeat the purpose of a tanker?

Well not if you build the tanker to fetch fuel from somewhere else (such as a harvester or dig site). As I just did in my game actually.

As Rabid_Cog pointed out the amount of fuel can be so large that its a good idea to place it directly under player control, rather than auto-filling them.

[Garfunkel]

Marking a ship as a tanker gives it only 10% of max fuel when it's built. For bases, with no engines, they start with 0% fuel. Which is kinda annoying as you still get the warning message (Ship XYZ only has 0% fuel left) until the harvesting modules start filling it up with fuel.

Maybe Steve could disable fuel checks for ships with no engines?

[Steve Walmsley]

But dont they start with max fuel? do I have to drag them then take some of the fuel they start with?

Any class you designate as a tanker (which you should do for harvesters) only starts with 10% fuel

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

I think tankers aren't automatically filled when you build them, the idea being that their tanks are so vast that if you fill them all you would rapidly empty your fuel stockpile.

Yes, that is the reason.

Steve