Patience young Obi Wan...
Out of Fuel? - Explorer Rescue Service, The Fuel Rats
- Thread starter Surly_Badger
- Start date
Patience young Obi Wan...
Could this be turned into a race?
Now I like your thinking - we clearly need to borrow Bucky's big board
That would be awesome - great idea. I would rep you but I already did recently
OK, that is perfect. I think it needs to be displayed on the top of the first post
Genius!!!
Hahaha so much potential for a whole range of instructional diagrams for Elite.
Hurricane Moon
Banned
this is a brilliant idea....not sure id be a commited fuel rat myself....but good to know there is a place to go to ask for help.
cracking name aswell
what is the preffered payment upon this RAC/AA type service?
cracking name aswell
what is the preffered payment upon this RAC/AA type service?
You know what? Like any half decent volunteer force, we need training! Once 1.3 launches we should have a rota of people willing to go somewhere and deliberately strand themselves so they can be rescued.
Happy to support even if it's just escorting in my asp (vulture's too short range).
Practice is a good idea. Assuming the best bet would be to have a spare empty tank and scoop it full in the way to minimise weight and maximise jump range until close?
Knight Cmdr Karhebron
Practice is a good idea. Assuming the best bet would be to have a spare empty tank and scoop it full in the way to minimise weight and maximise jump range until close?
Knight Cmdr Karhebron
Last edited:
I'm a grumpy old fart; not the leader type. I chose the title "Rats" because my mental image is something like a bunch of scruffy squabbling warf-critters who might swarm out to board a weakened ship - mostly to help but also perhaps to relieve them of excess weight in the form of valuables. "Vent that palladium and you'll be able to jump farther (nudge) (nudge)" I wouldn't want to be at the top of a hierarchy like that because your tail gets chewed a lot.
But: thank you for the idea.
This thing is going to evolve (I hope) and I'm concerned that it may become unwieldy (if it does, it'll evolve more) My original vision was that someone would friend all the rats and we'd go find them. But that's a lot of friend requests (Thanks CMDRs for your amazing ratlike squeals of support. I salute in your general direction. You bring a tear to my beady little remaining eye!)
I think a couple things:
- This is just going to become a long thread for now. If someone need fuel and posts here, we can swarm to help, or fold our arms and watch them die. Either way, it'll be entertaining. So I suppose we just keep an eye on the thread and if there's a call for help, we'll evolve our response.
- As future game-play evolves we will evolve with it. Someone needs to experiment with refuelling in 1.3 and make some official recommendations for a procedure, whether there are any "gotchas" or things we should watch for. I don't want to go 10 kylie just to blow up the person I am rescuing and I certainly don't want to end up needing rescuing myself.
- I don't want to do a set fee for rescue; I'm going to rescue people for the pleasure of rooting through their underwear drawer in their cabin when they're not looking. My opinion is that having no set fee allows for some fun role-play. Will you get cheap assistance, fast assistance, or good assistance? You won't get all three.
- We will need to evolve (via discussion in this thread) our methods and recommendations for both the rescuee ("stay with your ship. pray." I love the sign!) and Fuel Rats: how much to bring, whether to show up armed or not, etc. That will evolve as well; like proper rats we will remain nimble, selfish, and bitey.
- I am concerned that someone might conceive the idea of wasting a rat's time by summoning help to where they aren't. That's why I cooked up the 'friend' idea. I would enjoy it highly if someone summons me to help and tries to dry gulch me. If you think rats bite, try a badger. I intend to show up in at least an A-rated Clipper with fuel and plenty of missiles and beams. If it means I make a few extra jumps getting there, so be it.
I go through bursts of RL busy and often check the forums via airport internet and smartphone; if I miss something, it's no surprise and if you think I missed something I shouldn't feel free to PM me or throw a wet, chewed-up cigar at my head.
Last edited:
A few idle thoughts:
Did you know a group of rats is called a mischief? How utterly appropriate
The aglie kangaroo rat's taxonomy is Dipodomys agilis. Given our willingness to jump great distances I can't help but think this would be a suitable Latinname for the group. We need shoulder patches!!
If someone posted that they were out of fuel and a nearby rat jumped to help, but it turned out to be a pirate; would this be a Rat Trap (and you've been caught)
Did you know a group of rats is called a mischief? How utterly appropriate
The aglie kangaroo rat's taxonomy is Dipodomys agilis. Given our willingness to jump great distances I can't help but think this would be a suitable Latinname for the group. We need shoulder patches!!
If someone posted that they were out of fuel and a nearby rat jumped to help, but it turned out to be a pirate; would this be a Rat Trap (and you've been caught)
Lol, love it...how much faith do you have in your fellow explorers?....Can tyou trust them when they promise to deliver fuel?.....are you willing to get yourself stranded to prove your loyalty?....
Happy to help if I'm near (CMDR Todgergoblin) awesome idea!
just strip a T6 down to nothing but its barest bones for the exercise, even if they strand you, insurance wont be bad.
Now that Powerplay's about to be available to all, I wonder how many cries for help we'll start getting.
It's launching ... Err, like, NOW!!!
Count me in!
OK, so some questions.
Someone runs out of fuel and phones in a call for help, someone here responds, "friends" them and flies out to their system with the necessary fuel and refueling drones.
A) having never tried this, how do you drop in on someone who's been out of SC for a long time (so their frameshift wake has presumably long since decayed)? Do they need to quickly jump in and back out of SC to leave a new wake? or can you just wing up so they can then drop a wing beacon (or whatever it's called)?
b) what is the actual refueling mechanic? (has anyone tried it out in the beta)
c) where does the transferred fuel come from? does it come out of the refueler's main tank or does the refueler need to add an extra fuel tank in one of their utility slots?
Someone runs out of fuel and phones in a call for help, someone here responds, "friends" them and flies out to their system with the necessary fuel and refueling drones.
A) having never tried this, how do you drop in on someone who's been out of SC for a long time (so their frameshift wake has presumably long since decayed)? Do they need to quickly jump in and back out of SC to leave a new wake? or can you just wing up so they can then drop a wing beacon (or whatever it's called)?
b) what is the actual refueling mechanic? (has anyone tried it out in the beta)
c) where does the transferred fuel come from? does it come out of the refueler's main tank or does the refueler need to add an extra fuel tank in one of their utility slots?
Either works, I'd advise wing beacon if the players are already in wing. The advantage of meeting in supercruise is both players can scan each other for weapons etc and make sure the "help" and "need help" claims are valid...
Limpets (see youtube link)
Comes from main tank, as far as I know extra tanks just add to the main tank as if you have upgraded it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk0v0RbBLDA
