I'm not saying you're advocating for normalized OKW income, I'm saying that multiplying OKW fuel costs by 1.3 is really silly. OKW get less income but have stronger map presence and can temporarily double their fuel income with resource conversion. A little bit of micromanagement with resource conversion and OKW actually have a resource advantage over other factions.
I'm multiplying them to show how much fuel other factions have in comparison. To enable a better comparison with other factions.
Fuel is time.
For example: Its meaningless to compare okw pziv to ost p4 (for example) by saying ost piv is inferior. You have to factor in that OKW will save that 135 fuel in the same time ost will save 202 fuel. So in that sense, the balance is clearer.
By that same logic, luchs is horribly placed because it actually costs 10 more fuel to rush a jpiv. btw i didnt straight out multiply. I did deduct the 40 starting fuel arithmetically. Heres the math:
JPIV: Tech cost: 0 (starting 40 fuel) + Unit cost: 135*1.5 = 202.5 fuel.
Luchs: Tech cost : 80*1.5 (starting tier free, only T4 cost) + 50*1.5 = 195 fuel.