Ramscoop

Ramscoop	Catalytic	Wanderer	Emergency	Fuel Processor	Fuel Sail
== Description ==
In the early days of space exploration, when ships could travel through half a dozen systems before encountering an established colony where they could refuel, ramscoops were an essential piece of equipment, harvesting plasma from the solar wind to refill your hyperspace fuel tanks. Although you can install more than one ramscoop, additional ramscoops on a single ship are not as effective as the first.
Different kinds of stars will generate varying levels of fuel in the solar wind, but in all cases the closer you are to the star, the faster fuel will accumulate. As a safety measure, all ships are able to harvest tiny amounts of fuel by flying close to a star, but this outfit allows you to accumulate fuel much more quickly.
== Location ==
This outfit can be found in the Deep, the Core, and the Far North.
== Item Details ==
A ramscoop allows a ship to regenerate hyperspace fuel in mid-flight without landing on a planet or requesting help from another ship. Unlike Escape Velocity, all ships in Endless Sky can regenerate small amounts of fuel by hovering over a star, so it is almost impossible to be completely trapped by running out of fuel. However, recovering fuel this way takes an enormous amount of time even in fast forward, and if hostile ships are in the area, staying near the system's star may not be practical. A ramscoop allows for fuel regeneration anywhere in the system and greatly accelerates fuel recovery. This is essential if you spend extended periods traveling through uninhabited or hostile space, as even the largest fuel tanks can be exhausted during long trips, especially if using a Scram Drive or Jump Drive.
The standard human ramscoop is the easiest in the game to acquire, as it can be found in the Deep right after the game starts, while other ramscoops require either story progress or making contact with alien species. However, it is also the least space-efficient of all ramscoops, so while it is better to have than no ramscoop at all, if you have the extra outfit space, it is recommended to replace it with something else as soon as possible. The Wanderer Ramscoop renders this outfit entirely obsolete by weighing 3 tons less and having 4 times the ramscoop value. The Emergency Ramscoop also renders this outfit obsolete by weighing 6 tons less and having 1.25 times the ramscoop value.
The effectiveness of ramscoops scales with the square root of their total amounthttps://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/blob/v0.9.16.1/source/Ship.cpp#L2294. So a Wanderer Ramscoop with a value of 4 is twice as effective as an ordinary Ramscoop, and two Wanderer Ramscoops is roughly 2.83x as effective. This also means the smaller ramscoops are more effective on their own than they appear: the Afterburner (Asteroid Class), for example, has a Ramscoop value of 0.25 but is actually 50% as effective as a normal Ramscoop.
Category:Human
Category:Human outfits
Category:Fuel
Category:Ramscoop
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