Posted by: Garfunkel
« on: November 30, 2015, 07:08:25 AM »The most cost-effective way is to make a fuel harvesting base and use a tug to haul it in place. Then use a small tanker to shuttle between your FHB-TG and your colony in the same system, using the "refuel at" and "dump 90% fuel" commands. You want a somewhat slow and a small tanker to do it so that the FHBs have time to harvest more fuel before the tanker comes back. If you make a fast and/or large tanker, it'll get all the fuel at one go and probably can't top its tanks fully on the next trip.
Another thing to think about is how large the tanks on your FHBs should be. One rule of thumb is that they should be equal to the annual production capacity of the sorium harvester - but will your FHBs really remain unvisited for 12 months? Doubtful. Perhaps half of that annual production capacity is sufficient in fuel tank size for them.
You usually don't want to put engines on them because they spend 99% of their time sitting in one location.
Another thing to think about is how large the tanks on your FHBs should be. One rule of thumb is that they should be equal to the annual production capacity of the sorium harvester - but will your FHBs really remain unvisited for 12 months? Doubtful. Perhaps half of that annual production capacity is sufficient in fuel tank size for them.
You usually don't want to put engines on them because they spend 99% of their time sitting in one location.