Always check your fuel!

Chunky007

Chunky007
Learned this lesson the hardway, did a couple of multiple jumps, ended up in a system without a base/station to refuel, and didnt have enough to jump again. In a sidewinder so didnt have a fuel scoop. Ended up self destructing and lost my mission i was on.

but loving every second of this game, even if you want to scream :D
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
Chunky007 said:
Learned this lesson the hardway, did a couple of multiple jumps, ended up in a system without a base/station to refuel, and didnt have enough to jump again. In a sidewinder so didnt have a fuel scoop. Ended up self destructing and lost my mission i was on.

but loving every second of this game, even if you want to scream :D
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Too late now, but there's always the Fuel Rats.
They have fuel, you don't...
And they're always ready to answer questions.

Www.fuelrats.com
 
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Siobhan

Siobhan
Chunky007 said:
playing in solo, dont have ps+
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Ah, sorry.
Well at least someone else may benefit from your plight and the reply.

I guess it's not a mistake you'll make again in a hurry, so that's a plus. And it's better done in a sidey than in something expensive.
 

ChiefRedCloud

ChiefRedCloud
Chunky007 said:
Learned this lesson the hardway, did a couple of multiple jumps, ended up in a system without a base/station to refuel, and didnt have enough to jump again. In a sidewinder so didnt have a fuel scoop. Ended up self destructing and lost my mission i was on.

but loving every second of this game, even if you want to scream :D
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I think every other player does this. I know I did but I was lucky enough to have a mentor/friend outfit and come save me.

I learned my lesson that day .... but things may have changed (or not) because the other night I tried to jump only 6 jumps (27 in Ecco) and it refused to allow me to as it exceeded my full copasitty.

Chief
 

antodena

antodena
Noob question: is there a way I can double check and then plan the trip? It happened to me too but I was unable to find a way to Plan the trip... actually every station I see I get in and refuel but it's tedious when you need to refuel 2 or 3 times during a trip... any advice in NOOB Language? (I really feel in shame since I played Elite extensively on PC... but had Always the same problem, never been able to understand and plan the multiple jumps... :p)
 

fish77

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antodena said:
Noob question: is there a way I can double check and then plan the trip? It happened to me too but I was unable to find a way to Plan the trip... actually every station I see I get in and refuel but it's tedious when you need to refuel 2 or 3 times during a trip... any advice in NOOB Language? (I really feel in shame since I played Elite extensively on PC... but had Always the same problem, never been able to understand and plan the multiple jumps... :p)
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When you first plot the route check the system where your fuel runs out, if there's no map data look at the population, if it's populated it has a station so you can either gamble on it having one close to the star or having to do a 300k ls trip for fuel or you can keep checking the next system back for one with map data, after refuelling repeat again if you don't have enough fuel to make it all the way.

Fortunately I've never made this mistake when flying around in the bubble, no my mistake came after possibly 1000 hours of playing, in an Anaconda that I'd spent a fortune on and was over 20k ly's from the bubble scanning black holes and neutron stars, was busy watching tv while playing the game in auto pilot and didn't realise my fuel had got too low to jump, luckily someone from the fuel rats was stupid great enough to come all the way out to me [big grin]
 

Mr. Stevens Catering

Mr. Stevens Catering
Does it still map your route with a dotted line for the part of the route that you don't have the fuel for? It used to plot the route and give you solid lines between the systems you had fuel for and dotted ones toward the end that signified you didn't have fuel for that leg of the journey.

Also keep in mind you can plot routes based on FASTEST or ECON. ECON are shorter jumps but safer in terms of refueling along the way. That said, grab a scoop and do fastest and be sure to filter star types by their scoop-ability.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Mr. Stevens said:
Does it still map your route with a dotted line for the part of the route that you don't have the fuel for? It used to plot the route and give you solid lines between the systems you had fuel for and dotted ones toward the end that signified you didn't have fuel for that leg of the journey.
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Yup, it still maps the whole route, with dotted line at the point where you would run out, exactly as you decribe.
 

disintegration7

disintegration7
Mr. Stevens said:
Does it still map your route with a dotted line for the part of the route that you don't have the fuel for? It used to plot the route and give you solid lines between the systems you had fuel for and dotted ones toward the end that signified you didn't have fuel for that leg of the journey.

Also keep in mind you can plot routes based on FASTEST or ECON. ECON are shorter jumps but safer in terms of refueling along the way. That said, grab a scoop and do fastest and be sure to filter star types by their scoop-ability.
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Yes it does. You can also toggle it to ONLY plot routes through scoopable stars (i.e. apply star-type filter to route planning). Just keep in mind that some plots may fail using this method if the only path to your destination runs through a star-type you have toggled off.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
disintegration7 said:
Yes it does. You can also toggle it to ONLY plot routes through scoopable stars (i.e. apply star-type filter to route planning). Just keep in mind that some plots may fail using this method if the only path to your destination runs through a star-type you have toggled off.
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Is that true? I thought it still plotted a route and, for that reason, the plotted route was not 100% guaranteed to honour your chosen filters?
 

fish77

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Alec Turner said:
Is that true? I thought it still plotted a route and, for that reason, the plotted route was not 100% guaranteed to honour your chosen filters?
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Yeah it works, was recently out in the neutron fields and plotted 200 ly, economic jump routes with only non sequence stars, every jump hit something worth scanning, then on the return journey filtered out all non scoopable stars and was able to do 990-1000 ly routes without having to stop every few jumps to find a nearby star to refuel at then re-plot, it's great for avoiding the millions of brown dwarfs with a few snowballs orbiting them
 
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