11-06-2017, 01:24 PM | #11 |
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Re: The most efficient body type RE: fuel?
The other thing to think about also is are you using gas, or brewing your own fuel from moonshine to use in the tank. not as good and for range, but easy to get and make over a week or two and you make a still to be on a trailer to setup and use for enought to fill the tanks and some extra to trade for other stuff at least.
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11-06-2017, 03:05 PM | #12 | |
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Re: The most efficient body type RE: fuel?
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The problem here is: _CW_ never had rules for fuel types other than gasoline -- no ethanol (except maybe a mention in _RASG4_); no diesel, esp. no biodiesel (which, as we're seeing, would render the whole "no more gasoline" problem moot); no alcohol fuels (Idaho as the replacement OPEC? :) ); nothing. So there's no "official" way to deal with what you're describing.
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11-07-2017, 03:22 AM | #13 |
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Re: The most efficient body type RE: fuel?
My campaign is based in Florida. Because Florida has historically plenty of fruit and cane sugar production (and there is no reason the grain blight will have affected that at all) I have argued it also has a healthy ethanol fuel production (Xethanol* even has a facility making bio-fuel from citrus waste). As a result of cheaper "gasahol" there is a healthy Gas burner market as well.
Even the dreg gangers can home brew and distill fuel for their vehicles (from oranges or sugar stolen from remote groves) meaning I have a steady supply of baddies whose vehicles have good acceleration (but poorer top speeds) and that can live off-grid. Drinking their fuel gives them a reason to be usefully deranged. When their vehicles are hit, they often burn which also reduces the salvage inflation in the campaign. The conversion rules between ethanol and gasoline ICs costs and fuel economy are pretty straight forward and only need a couple of lines in RASG 4 to explain. I am not sure how much more coverage you would really need. You might as well hand wave it for the majority of play. * At the time I wrote the campaign Xethanol was at the height of the hype on cellulose ethanol production. This didn't turn out to be quite true, but if Pan AM can be in Bladerunner, I can have bankrupt companies in my 2035 campaign ;) Last edited by swordtart; 11-07-2017 at 05:37 AM. Reason: Full Disclosure |
11-07-2017, 04:12 AM | #14 |
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Re: The most efficient body type RE: fuel?
If I recall there's rules for Ethanol , Methanol , Methane(?) , Petrohol etc in GURPS Road Atlases . Australia and Free Oil States ones spring to mind .
Also seen on NOVA pages I think , Hydrox Engines ( NOT Power Plants ) , that burn Hydrogen & Oxygen together instead of Gasoline/Petrol . Okay probably not available to the average Driver but an option none the less - also has the advantage of being able to run underwater . Some vehicles in UK use LPG - Liquid Petroleum Gas - but that's an extreme rarity these days .
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11-07-2017, 05:44 AM | #15 |
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Re: The most efficient body type RE: fuel?
The rules for ethanol and mixed fuel in the Australia RASG are actually pretty good! Prices, fuel efficiency, rules for unfiltered bootleg fuel. I'm not really sure what's missing that you want.
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11-07-2017, 04:19 PM | #16 | ||
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[nod] But no Official Rules for them -- nor for any kind of diesel, or any of the other myriad fuel types we see nowadays. (I emphasize the "official" part because I do recall about half-a-dozen people who had their own unofficial rules for such; but for some reason, none of them ever saw print.)
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11-08-2017, 06:05 AM | #17 |
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Re: The most efficient body type RE: fuel?
Possibly because it wasn't worth the ink.
The game provides no specific detail on electric plants. We have some funky sounding modifications for them that have pseudo scientific names, and some fluff, but nothing that you could write an academic paper with. They are recharged but we are not told much about the recharge process other than what it costs per PF. We don't know if they are AC, DC. We are told about capacitors, but are they an intermediate store or the main store. In truth it is because it is not important. Why for instance do bikes and cars use plants different electric plants, but can use the same gas plants? Why do we need any more regarding liquid fueled vehicles? Who cares if it is Gasoline, Ethanol or whatever. Many cars are now multi-fuel and can apparently take 85% ethanol by default. Doubtless there are some cost differences but that is in the weeds. There are more fundamental things to sort out first, e.g. do gas plants drive the wheels direct or are they electricity generators that power electric wheel motors. I have seen conflicting interpretations in the official publications. I suspect that it was considered irrelevant. It's Car Wars, not Top Gear. |
11-08-2017, 08:29 AM | #18 | |
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11-08-2017, 08:55 PM | #19 | |
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On a Car Wars style car, I think the DP of the wheel motors is included in the DP of the wheel itself. Destruction of one wheel will still allow the vehicle to limp around. Destruction of the Power Plant will halt the vehicle. |
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11-09-2017, 05:25 AM | #20 | |
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But it's fine. It's a game. It's not an engineering manual. It's also absurd to pull a power plant out to replace it with a smaller plant and an extra machine gun. There's no way you could do that on a real car, but it's fun in the game, so let's do it. |
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