(And just maybe update 3 will be the one)Long story short, ships can only travel about 1/2 their listed range, ~52%. Speed setting is not a factor, at least on the user end (possible under the hood it's burning fuel at flank speed rate for all settings or something), it makes a very minimal impact on potential range: couple hundred km on a ship with a listed range of 8,850km where actual range 4,656 @ normal speed, might be ~4,900 at other speeds.
This is easily reproduced, take a ship, travel in ~1,000km straight legs back and forth and see how far it goes before it runs out of fuel. At normal speed, ~52% of the listed unit range. Using the campaign as USA, waters off Norfolk Virginia are a good testing ground, a half dozen or so ~8,000 km DDs ready to roll.Can grab a couple ships (not the carriers, don't want resupply muddying the water) and use them as start/end point markers, one just outside territorial water, the other ~1,000km South East. Now grab one of the other DDs and run the circuit. Of course, make sure to lock the minister from their control first.
As a side benefit if this gets fixed, might help AI ships getting stranded out of fuel.
