Warning. The below is something of a nonsensical pre morning coffee rant.....
Having recently found my space wheels I went for a jolly drive last night for 15km away from my random landing spot on random planet. Found some materials, a crashed ship with an escape pod (sorry I didn't pick you up but I had no more cargo room) but then the fuel light comes on the SRV so called the ship down, eventually get onboard (don't get me started) then as I cannot find any refuel options I assume must be automatic. Soooooo 15km of this planet is loads lets go scout a new planet. Off we go and I find some geological features on a neighboring rock, land again, deploy SRV and WTF, WTAF still no fuel........ Head drops as a the picture of a laughing David Braben comes to mind.
Why is it so complicated? Why oh why can I not refuel it from the ships tank? Why do I need to craft fuel or go to a station? No frontier you're not making it more fun you're making an obstruction to the fun. The fun bit is exploring. The not so fun bit is searching for materials to craft fuel to then go back to the fun exploring. IN FACT why for the love of god is this thing using fuel? Surely by 3305 it'll be electric? We have photovoltaics now (solar panels that make electric). Surely by the year 3305 we might of tweaked this a bit and the SRV would be able to run of free electric energy. Or if your on the dark side then why not just batteries that I can recharge from my ship. In fact forget all that and back to the first point, just let me suck fuel from the ships tank using an old garden hose and leave the crafting for the mint afterwards.
To be honest I haven't tried crafting fuel yet because after discovering this I decided last night it was time for bed but if its like everything else in game the resources for it will be few and far between. I suppose I could just head for the nearest station but I want to explore a planet at a rate of more than 15-20km a time.