Well that one need fixing,
Arghhhh Insufficient Fuel, what now?
- Thread starter gerrelli
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Well that one need fixing,
I've reported it since release as there as some systems as little as 0.33ly apart and you can do that in SC in around 30-40 mins.
Sargon
Banned
By the time you get back the canisters will have vanished... timed out.
Could he not SC there, then log out and back in to load the planets/station?
I think that has been tried. I have a feeling the way it works, is that it is simply keeping track of the system you are officially in and your distance from that sun. You are only loaded into the instance of another system when you jump into that system. Remember also it can take 10's of hours to SC from one system to another. The attempt I read about took more than 24 hours of continual SC.
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Get close to the star.
Just fly close to the star... But I suggest to sell it and make the checking of the jump distance part of the pre flight list....
Flossy
Volunteer Moderator
Fly towards the sun slowly - I usually skim across the top, keeping the green line around it just above the bottom of my screen - increase speed slightly until scooping starts automatically. Keep speed at or under the blue range and keep an eye on the temperature. You will get a warning at 100 but will be OK to wait until it reaches about 120, then increase speed and move away from the sun - I usually go 'vertical' until the temperature starts to drop. If it reaches more than about 140-150 you will start to see sparks and sustain damage, so try to get away before that happens, or you could find yourself in the position I was a week or so ago. I wasn't able to get away from the sun quick enough and my hull was severely damaged and canopy breached! I had 10 minutes of oxygen left to get to the nearest station; unfortunately I ran out of oxygen and exploded just as I was about to exit supercruise - I had a full hold of rare goods too. An expensive lesson learnt for me.
How do you even tell how much Fuel you have got? There appear to be 2 gauges: a thin line and a larger thicker dotted line. What is what?
nope. it is not.
Sargon
Banned
One is jump fuel, the smaller is the fuel used while zipping around inside systems..
fly at a star, no im not kidding.
preferably a white/yellow/orange main sequence star.
One is jump fuel, the smaller is the fuel used while zipping around inside systems..
Isn't it rather that the thin line represents one of the thicker dotted segments? It's especially easy to see with smaller fuel tanks, large tanks (e.g. in a Cobra) don't have a dotted thick line anymore
No.
The top thin line is the 'Active Fuel Reservoir' (shortened to just 'Reservoir' when you see that in-game). This is what is being used by your Power Plant to provide power to everything else in your ship. When this becomes empty it will attempt to refill to 100% from your Main Fuel Tank. The thicker line (segmented if it's a small enough tank) is the Main Fuel Tank. Apart from the Reservoir re-filling this is what's used to make Hyperspace jumps.
The size of the Reservoir is ship-dependent, anything from 0.2T to about 1.0T (or greater, I've only been in up to a Type-9 or Asp). The size of the Main Fuel Tank is determined by what you have as listed in Outfitting, i.e. Cobra comes with 16T by default if memory serves, but you can down-grade it if you want to lose some mass and know you won't need all that fuel. There's no constant relation between the size of the Reservoir and Main Tanks.
to fuel scoop you can do sun skimming technique where you fly full pelt at just above the blue line around the sun and skim the sun for a few seconds, rinse repeat - no risk of overheating - , or you can come in and slow as you skim and orbit the sun, flying over the horizon.
it is however possible to watch your temperature and fuel intake speed and come essentially a stop at the right altitude over the sun and so long as the gravitational pull isn't too strong from the sun, you'll stay in location at a constant temperature with your tank filling at around 50-75% of the potential maximum speed.
fwiw, what you are doing is skimming hydrogen fuel off the surface of the sun - but beware, not all solar masses produce fuel / you will overheat way before you get any fuel - white dwarfs are particularly deadly, as are the really dark (brown dwarf?) purple/brown suns.
not seen a black hole yet myself - but there are there too.
it is however possible to watch your temperature and fuel intake speed and come essentially a stop at the right altitude over the sun and so long as the gravitational pull isn't too strong from the sun, you'll stay in location at a constant temperature with your tank filling at around 50-75% of the potential maximum speed.
fwiw, what you are doing is skimming hydrogen fuel off the surface of the sun - but beware, not all solar masses produce fuel / you will overheat way before you get any fuel - white dwarfs are particularly deadly, as are the really dark (brown dwarf?) purple/brown suns.
not seen a black hole yet myself - but there are there too.