Michi finalizes the upcoming balancing release and talks about providing fuel to the gateways.
You can find the full issue of the development log here.
We had a few discussions about the mockup UI, and it lead to some questions.
We know the un-upgraded gateways can have 200 jumps per day. Level 1 capacity gives 400, up to 1200 for max upgrades.
The mockup shows 30 fuel per jump, and 600 fuel capacity. Which might suggest refueling is needed every 20 jumps, or 10 times a day. Since only the contracted refuelers can do that (refueling from their storage on the planet I assume), that would be pretty burdensome. I would hope to only refuel it once a week or so.
It also raised the question… does every ship take the same fuel, or does fuel consumption change by ship volume?
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Good catch. When I implemented the mockup I noticed that too and talked with Counterpoint about it. Our game design documents are not fully consistent yet, as some changes to the weight of the fuel have been made without adjusting the size of the fuel storage.
Refueling every 20 jumps is definitely not the goal 
I’ll provide updated numbers once we have them sorted out.
As far as I know, every jump will use the same amount of fuel, no matter the size of the ship.
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