Bertie690
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4 hours ago As an illustration, I have pictured here 2 scenarios involving a QJ5 privateer colonizer being accompanied by a fleet of Settler's Delight mini-colonizer ships with 300 kT of space left (exactly the amount carried by said QJ5 colonizer). If I split the privateer into a separate fleet with no cargo, the total fuel usage drops from ≈8800mG to just under 7900. That is a 12.5% fuel reduction just by swapping which ship the cargo ends up in! (Comparing between regular engines, this discrepancy would be even greater - a QJ5 only uses 2x as much fuel as a settler's delight for W9, as opposed to mizer or AD8 versus a TGD with 3.6x and 6x the latter's fuel usage, respectively.)
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Separate fleets:
In the event multiple cargo-bearing ships with different engine types/quantities are put into 1 fleet, the fuel usage should be calculated under the assumption said cargo is placed into the most fuel efficient ships in the fleet as space allows. This means you don't have to split out your DLL7 privateers into a separate fleet from your TGD LFs lest they count as holding cargo and guzzle all the fleet's fuel away with that 7.5x consumption. (Yes this is minor QoL enhancement fyi)