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Pygmalion -> RE: UK Ship Fuel (3/28/2021 7:29:01 PM)
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Hey, Tom! Thanks for your query.
In answer to your first question, "do these relatively similar ships really have such varying degrees of fuel" -- no, probably not. There's definitely a few wonky fuel values in the DB right now. It's one thing modelling a civilian ship -- they'll almost always have exact fuel capacities listed in their manufacturer spec sheets -- but the military is (understandably) a lot less forthcoming, and it's difficult to find accurate information on fuel capacities. As a result, a lot of the capacities you see are placeholders or approximations.
The good news -- and the answer to your second question -- is that these numbers shouldn't affect more important gameplay values, like the ships' range. Engine efficiency *is* considered, and automatically calculated from provided range-at-speed values (which, fortunately, are usually available with a little digging). If a notional ship from 1960 is recorded as being able to travel 2000nm @ 17kt, the engine efficiency will be set to whatever value is necessary to make that happen even if it's only listed as carrying 25 tons of fuel. Conversely, a notional ship from 2020 that can travel 4000nm @ 17kt will make that on the same 25 tons of fuel, because its engine will have different fuel consumption values.
With that said, such discrepancies in stated fuel capacities between similarly-sized vessels are obviously suboptimal, even if they don't affect operations at all. We're hoping to run a mass review of propulsion and fuel values in the DB at some point; hopefully this -- and similar issues -- will at that point be caught up in our dragnet and rectified.
Hope this was helpful!
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