Siphon Fuel From Vehicles

[RedEyedJedi]

Adding a rubber or plastic tube would make for some interesing game possibilites.
Imagine getting fuel from all the abandonded cars.

Or using it to drink clean water from waterfalls or other little captured pools.
Obviously you would need to judge the sources clenliness and take a risk or not.

Campfire salvaged charcoal to purify water when theres no time for boiling or purifying tabs available?

And how is there no pine sap/pitch to start fires? The natural methods for when all manmade options are exhausted are still needing to be explored more in this game.

[Ogami]

A: The fuel would be frozen.
B: Disregarding popular movie believe, car fuel only lasts a few months before becoming stale and unusable.

[cfett199]

Originally posted by Ogami:

A: The fuel would be frozen.
B: Disregarding popular movie believe, car fuel only lasts a few months before becoming stale and unusable.

Granted, the fuel would most likely be sludge. As for it being frozen, it's gasoline, not water, it freezes at around -40F and from what I have seen, the ambient temeperature does not get that cold. It's a game, and many things have been games up to keep the game interesting and accessible.

Siphoning fuel is most likely a coming possibility since one can already interact with the fuel caps.

There's a lot of real life ways to do many things in this game, but most are ommited to keep the game simple, both from a player and technical aspect. Not bad suggestions, but I wouldn't hold my breath on them being implememnted (aside from the siphon that will most likely come about)

[Mako Heero]

When story mode starts, you should be allowed to syphon the fuel from the acft you crashed.
Jet-A certainly does not freeze, and doesn't turn to sludge.
And if it isn't Jet A, all plane fuels are almost the same.
Plus, often acft carry hand-squeeze-pump-siphoning tool thingies to take fuel samples, so Devs could possibly place a siphon in the crashed plane.

[cfett199]

Originally posted by Mako Heero:

When story mode starts, you should be allowed to syphon the fuel from the acft you crashed. Jet-A certainly does not freeze, and doesn't turn to sludge.
And if it isn't Jet A, all plane fuels are almost the same.
Plus, often acft carry hand-squeeze-pump-siphoning tool thingies to take fuel samples, so Devs could possibly place a siphon in the crashed plane.

Jet-A freezes at the same point as gasoline; -40C/F

As for pulling fuel samples, I've seen them be pulled, they are form the low point in the fuel cell, there's no siphoning, you push up on the sample point witth the appropiate collector and gravity does the rest, as well as the elastic nature of the fuel bladder. Fuel samples are always from the lowest point in the fuel cell since that is where comtamination is most likely to be present.

There is no 'hand-squeeze'pump-siphoning too thngies', just a glass bottle/jar really, at least when it comes to naval aviation.

[Frosty]

Did the developers even specify what time period this takes place in? There's flat screens... but you can't use a flash light (a GeoMagnetic Event would not wipe out a simple circuit like a flashlight, even an EMP would probably fry a simple incandecent bulb flashlight, though LEDs might not survive) and the rifle you use appears to be a Lee-Enfield from WWI. Yet, there's flat screens dotted through out the wilderness?

In anycase, the point being that all the vehicles appear old enough to possible not have "anti-siphoning" devices in the filler necks... so yeah that'd be nice to have for refilling your lantern or maybe starting a generator (because what bearing does a GeoMagnetic event have on electrical circuits besides those tied to say cardinal directions?) While fuel does in fact become "stale" over time, it seems that this event is recent (otherwise how is your plane flying before hand?)

[Mako Heero]

Originally posted by cfett199:

There is no 'hand-squeeze'pump-siphoning too thngies', just a glass bottle/jar really, at least when it comes to naval aviation.

Hand squeeze thingies exist because I've used them, I've often slid them down a tube at the top of the fuel cell down to the sump, which was the design of the acft I've been around. But I guess all acft aren't the same!