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Cpt. Uriel May 8, 2016 @ 10:55am
Minibike Gas
Why does the minibike take so much gas. If I have a stack of 1000 gas, it will take 250 gas and not even fill the tank! Is this some kind of glich?
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Dies Fourth May 8, 2016 @ 11:03am 
Its a game balance issue. They dont want never ending driving with little or no effort on the players part.

If you want the speed of the mini bike you put up with the noise and hassle of making alot of fuel.
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LetsDudeIt! May 8, 2016 @ 11:11am 
At the same time, they have risen the amount of fuel, you will get out of the scavenging of cars.
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Nightwing May 8, 2016 @ 11:39am 
I Prefer to think that the actual gas is measured in mL. This way 1000mL (1 L) of gas seems correct for how much it fills the tank. It also brings to mind the scarcity of gas when you are salvaging every drop you can find, even a few mL at a time.
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tagteam May 8, 2016 @ 12:21pm 
Corn meal + water= grain alcohol
animal fat + beaker = bio fuel
grain alcohol + biofuel = ♥♥♥♥ tons of gas....

just post up a spot where there is a lot of game and make sure its near water. build a huge corn field(or take over the one in the game) make a chest and fill it with water. Go hunting, carve urself up some fat. one day of pure hunting will giff u enough fat to make gas thru the night.

i have a race track with 6-7 minibikes, all full of gas.
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Ozzy OzBorn May 8, 2016 @ 12:22pm 
They just divided the gas into smaller increments as said above. 100 gas now is the old 1 gas can. You can get a lot by just hitting the unlootable cars with a pickaxe. You get about 50 gas off every car and since there's a ridiculous overabundance of cars out there I don't see how you could ever run out.
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LunaCPlays May 8, 2016 @ 12:25pm 
Originally posted by Ozzy OzBorn:
They just divided the gas into smaller increments as said above. 100 gas now is the old 1 gas can. You can get a lot by just hitting the unlootable cars with a pickaxe. You get about 50 gas off every car and since there's a ridiculous overabundance of cars out there I don't see how you could ever run out.
^This
Last update increased the amount of gas that cars provide to a much more substantial figure. Should make minibikes more tolerable for players who use them. I personally still avoid them due to the other bugs they are known for.
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Aimee May 8, 2016 @ 12:55pm 
A lot of the answers have been already given above, another reason for the large numbers of gas, is so you can take it out of the tank if you want to break down the bike, before everything would have been gone that was in the bike, and 1 gas can thats left in the tank back then would be a loss of 1000 gas now.
Even if you put 1000 gas in now, and dive a few meters, you would still be able to take everything thats left out, may it be 999 or 1, nothing gets lost.

Another potential reason is the unrealistic huge stacks of gas before, gas was an item that took up pretty much no slots before, now a stack is 1000 gas, and that ways its more realistic.
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ViperV May 8, 2016 @ 5:11pm 
Get better bike parts. I can drive for a longer time and save gas with purple parts.
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Cpt. Uriel May 8, 2016 @ 5:20pm 
Thanks all for your comments!
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Aimee May 9, 2016 @ 8:27am 
Originally posted by kreig:
Get better bike parts. I can drive for a longer time and save gas with purple parts.
The engien quality is the only thing that realy affects this.
I think the purple engien does not use less gas than a bad quality one, but it can hold more, and it also go's faster, so for the same ammount of gas you can move a larger distance.
It feels like the engien take less gas, since you can put more gas into it, and thus have to refill it less often.
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ViperV May 10, 2016 @ 11:13am 
Originally posted by CrossFire:
Originally posted by kreig:
Get better bike parts. I can drive for a longer time and save gas with purple parts.
The engien quality is the only thing that realy affects this.
I think the purple engien does not use less gas than a bad quality one, but it can hold more, and it also go's faster, so for the same ammount of gas you can move a larger distance.
It feels like the engien take less gas, since you can put more gas into it, and thus have to refill it less often.
true. but the better each part, the overall performance of the bike is improved. have you tried riding the bike with low tier tires or bars? it's a pain in the ass to control, and you waste more gas trying to fight it. this is before bugs kick in of course.
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Aimee May 10, 2016 @ 2:12pm 
Originally posted by kreig:
true. but the better each part, the overall performance of the bike is improved. have you tried riding the bike with low tier tires or bars? it's a pain in the ass to control, and you waste more gas trying to fight it. this is before bugs kick in of course.
I have tryed this countless of times in the years i have played this game, and its always been the same.
The Tires affect the tracktion you have on the ground, and that affect how well you can drive up hills and keep controll on uneven terrain. The handlebars however dont affect the ''preformance'' of the bike when it comes to controll in any way, it has a set steering angle thats the same on every quality handlebar, and even the breaking power is the same, the only thing the handlebars affect is the amount of light it provides.
Any other bike part does not affect the preformance of the bike when it comes to controll either, the chassis and seat reduce the dammage taken by a fall, and the battery affects how much power it can hold (how fast it drains when the light is on and the bike not moving)
All parts affect the durability but that in itself is only hitpoints and not how well it steers, or how much controll you have over it.
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Yippie21 May 10, 2016 @ 2:24pm 
I love the bikes, but... I don't trust them. I didn't know they could vanish until mine did and then I did some forum searching. I had a nice purplish bike, loaded with gas... stopped on road to get off and go kill deer. See another deer, kill it. See coal. Get that. See more over hear. Get that coal. Oh, theres' some Nitrate!. Oh, a pig... then chop a tree down. Walk back to the road where I left my bike ( and I did mark with flag) and... it's gone. The cars are there that I parked next to. Long walk home.

I have started experimenting with taking the bike partially apart, say take tires and battery or somesuch, and then make a box, put on pavement next to whats left and store... so far, I've not had a bike that was partially disassembled vanish... but who knows. At least I didn't have a basket full on the one that vanished,
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Aimee May 10, 2016 @ 2:29pm 
Originally posted by Yippie21:
I love the bikes, but... I don't trust them. I didn't know they could vanish until mine did and then I did some forum searching.
Im not sure how often this happens in the current version since i went back to 14.4 when the bugs hit, but i havent had my bike vanish. I do however make sure it does not move after i get off, since if it jumps up and down it seems to make the bike glitch true the ground more often.
You could try building a new bike and making sure its not moving before you leave it parked somewhere, this should help fix your problem from what i can tell.
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Yippie21 May 10, 2016 @ 2:42pm 
Appreciate it Crossfire, but I did. It wasn't moving or hoping. I've seen it do that before. I'm playing 14.6. I just think it was a quirtk of being away for a bit, .. well... don't know. My new process works .. so far. It is no big deal to place a little chest here and there. I take my bike apart and store in a chest everytime I got to main base to craft or mine... just in case.

The weird part is, the game trolling me so hard. Earlier before the bike vanished, I'd riddent o hub city.. it was full of zed dred , and me zipping around scouting POI's to come back and loot later. I stop at pumping plant to check out basement stash and a bear shows up outside. So I go upstairs and knock out glass to look at him. He's trying to smash through gate when cop saunters up next to the bear. They both start wailing on. the. gate.. not each other.

So I shoot he bear with an arrow and the cop with an arrow. Then they attack one another. heh. The a spidey shows up ... and dogs... and ferals... and assorted concerned town folk looking to eat my brains. So as they assault the perimeter, I look at my bike, sitting on the street.

I kill a few. The bear breaks into the bldg first and hits be from behind ( I'm upstairs shooting out of window ).. I don't know how he tracked up to me but he almost killed me. I run from him only to run into two ferals and a few others. I hop on the consoles, jumping around, hop down over the railing to first floor ( thanks Pimps for nerfing the fall damage! ) then run outside as fast as I can to the bike. I'm on it and outta there....

If that bike had vanished in that encounter I would have been rightly pinched cause I had no real out... and it was getting late in the day. BUT, I was in fairly close proximity to the bike the whole time so maybe it's a game-map-drawing thing? Don't know.
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