The transport ships use fuel while in the air. Expansionist uses less fuel because the ships are faster (thus in the air less time). Robotics doesn't use fuel, but their ships use power. So distance does matter, in that it takes longer, and ships only cost while they are in the air.

(tile distance +3) / (packet size * 10) = Fuel cost / unit of resource. Ie. When sending a resource in packets of 20 over a distance of 17 tiles (straight line distance), every unit of that resource costs 0.1 fuel per unit to ship to the HQ.

Sorry, Cubit32, that equation makes no sense for me.

I am looking for the amount of fuel consumed by transports per tile, per unit of resource transported ( Fuel/(Distance*Resource) )

Assuming variables:

• Fuel consumption = FC
• Distance = S
• Units transported = U

The equation should look something like:

FC = aS * bU + c

Where a, b and c are coefficients game designers would have put in place.

I am also interested in comparative consumption in these four cases:

1. For a distance of 10 and packet of 20:

2. For a distance of 20 and packet of 20:

3. For a distance of 10 and packet of 40:

4. For a distance of 20 and packet of 40: