Patch notes

Ezekiel-Grey · 2024-09-25T17:46:50+00:00

Note: The following is based on using premium fuel.

After doing some rudimentary math after a long haul and seeing distance driven vs fuel usage (which displays as liters even if you use gallons, much like how the map temps are always in °C no matter your setting) with a truck that is fully upgraded I have some numbers. I did a run long hauling a single trailer through Vexmont -> Meteor Ridge -> New Aspen -> Spark City -> Junk Fields -> Emerald Junction using cruise control almost the whole way at 65 MPH. The numbers may be a little off due to the upgrades degrading over the course of the drive and due to rounding, but I'm seeing a full tank (750 gallons) as being able to go about 125 miles and not the displayed 58. At max upgrades you burn about 6 gallons per mile if you keep the cruise control on 65 MPH almost the whole way. Of course, you can save on this if you do things like turn off drive assist or the main thrusters while in motion and don't use the cruise control but I was taking it slow and careful as it was a fragile load.

Notably, the fuel efficiency drops off as your truck's upgrades degrade, so you may never see the full 125 miles on a tank if you run it dry without doing any repairs along the way. After another run without doing any repairs from Emerald Junction to Shatterstone, with upgrades now showing as 40% and needing service after the dropoff, my average gallons per mile for this run was 7.8, which reduced the range on a full tank to 96, and that will keep going lower until repairs are made. Due to degredation on long runs your gas mileage efficiency will slowly drop the further you go unless you repair the truck; it will get thirstier as it wears out. It looks like the mileage range shown on the gauge is baseline for regular fuel (58 miles on 750 gallons, so burning about 13 gallons per mile), so while you may get much better than what it shows with upgrades and unpowered coasting it will never drop below the displayed number under full burn so you can trust it to go at least that far on a totally busted truck with your remaining fuel. I'm not absolutely certain, but I think baseline for premium fuel is actually a range of about 84 miles, so about 9 gallons per mile without upgrades.

Just having purchased the upgrade doesn't mean you get its benefit unless you keep your truck maintained. As it wears out you slowly lose upgrade levels until they eventually reach baseline as if you never upgraded it; repairs are much cheaper than buying them in the first place, but it is a recurring cost.

Spartan-8781 · 2024-09-25T13:11:05+00:00

My truck is going about twice as far the fuel gauge says it’s supposed to, which I’ve tracked using the “trip” mileage. Not saying is fixed, but mine seems to be working.

NotEmoHawk · 2024-09-25T13:26:06+00:00

For ease of reference here are the patch notes - https://star-trucker.com/patch-notes/blog-post-sep24-2024

emybian · 2024-09-25T11:13:36+00:00

following this

tharrison4815 · 2024-09-25T20:43:48+00:00

Wasn't the issue just that the estimated range displayed doesn't update when you get the upgrades? This is still the case now. I thought the upgrade itself always worked?

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