Hydrogen tank refueling using bottles

JustDj shared this feedback ago

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I would like tanks (H2 or O2) to either consider any placed bottles inside of them to be apart of the grids gas supply, or an option to reverse the usual tank > bottle gas filling.

This would allow for a few unique use-cases like light small grids using H2 bottles as a fuel source that can be re-fueled without the need to align a connector to another grid, being able to kick-start hydrogen and hybrid based ships (something regular powered ships can do using the 25% base battery charge) so you can move them to a main connector, and allow remote/detached grids that can be powered by occasional bottle transport for early game.

i feel like this would also fit well considering SE2's approach towards manually movable power though power cells, so why not be able to do it with hydrogen and oxygen using the already made tools

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HungarianPatriot ●

A hydrogen bottle has a capacity of 400L. A small grid small hydrogen tank has a capacity of 15 000L. A hydrogen bottle would not even be enough to fill 3% into a small grid small hydrogen tank! This is an entirely negligible amount. No practical application for refuleing whatsoever.

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JustDj ●

Then they could just tweak hydrogen bottle values and adjust jetpack consumption rate to account for the capacity increase. Its not going to replace full on connector hydrogen fueling, it is simply to allow kick starting dead hydrogen systems as they don't start with any initial power unlike batteries, or for use in small/efficient grids where setting up a connector to connect to a massive 2.5m large grid connector or full on power plant is not ideal (e.g. you could set up small lamp posts grounded with landing gear that use h2 tanks and engines as a power source)

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