Usually the Fuel Rats only refuel your ship. For fleet carriers you should talk to the Fleet Carrier Owners Club. They might be able to help.
Colonia Bridge issues
- Thread starter Gofioman
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For carrier refueling call the Tritium Monkeys! But not sure they deliver outside of the bubble.
Understandably small and unwilling to change with the changing game. Okay.
My FC is one jump out from Colonia acting as a base for my alt account and been there for a month or so.
Sorry I missed you.
I would definitely have sold you some if I'd seen that. But it's summer, so probably fewer people indoors on their PC's playing ED.
Well the last time I was there, I purchased Tritium for my carrier from other Fleet Carriers in Colonia. I've been playing since 2015 and had a fleet carrier from the day they came out, you think I haven't been around the block a few times?
In fact Inara tells me there is a Fleet Carrier in Colonia that had nearly 10k Tritium available 13 days ago, a Fleet Carrier in Ratraii that had also had 10k+ just 16 hours ago, another in Ratraii that had 17k+ just 7 hours ago, a third FC in Ratraii that had over 19k tritium 22 hours ago. Of course you have to be willing to pay the price but getting thousands of tons of Tritium in Colonia as long as you are willing to pay 200k plus per ton seems a trivial matter.
If you complain that Inara is out of date - have you contributed to keeping it up to date (e.g. by running one of the EDDN feeder apps while playing)?
I bought a carrier in the Colonia region, and this was a mistake. There are lots of carriers there that sell tritium from 150k CR per ton (if you're very lucky) and beyond, so it takes BILLIONS to refuel there. Some CMDRs are hoarding it from markets and selling it for profit from their carriers. Well, that's the invisible hand of the market — you can either play by its rules or complain. I spent a couple of days collecting tritium from stations by 10-20 tons each, before I could buy enough fuel to get my FC closer to the Core to earn more credits from Exobio to buy more from Cariers. This can be frustrating sometimes, but it's a part of the game that makes it wonderful. I mean, what's the worth of your achievement if you can make it from Sol to Beagle Point in just several jumps? This is about the journey, not the destination.
Fleet Carriers are like real-world transoceanic yachts — you have to prepare for the long journey before you plot the first jump, or you'll be in trouble. I greatly appreciate and respect this.
Fleet Carriers are like real-world transoceanic yachts — you have to prepare for the long journey before you plot the first jump, or you'll be in trouble. I greatly appreciate and respect this.
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This is a pretty harsh take. The reality is this, I think.
Those stations with only 20 trit will actually accrue to at least over a hundred if not pillaged by a player
also some of the stations along the highway gave birth to surface stations which in some cases are massive producers
look at it like this, from my view, I was coming back to bubble from colonia on empty, stopping every jump or two to mine trit in a hotspot. When I'm halfway and I can get 400-500 trit at about market price from the 2-3 sellers in the immediate area for market price, that's insane. boom 5 jumps paid for.
idk man biggest thing for me is, i've made like 5 bil selling trit for rediculous profit up there and if suddenly the stations started cranking it out like candy it's gonna kill player traded trit
I'm currently bringing a near-empty Carrier back to the Bubble from Colonia. With 1,000t of tritium in the depot and around 1,200t in the hold, I knew I wouldn't have enough, so I've been stopping at all the Colonia Bridge megaships.
I'm doing OK. Many are in lockdown, but from those that are still open I can get around 40 to 100+ tons, and occasionally more. I've recently bought more than 3,000t from Cannon Complex station in Prua Phoe MI-B b17-5 (which is more than I've gotten from the megaships, there are now a few new full-size stations on the route too) - which is more than what I needed to get all the way back to the Bubble.
If you're travelling light, and stop to scavenge at every opportunity, you can make it.
I'm doing OK. Many are in lockdown, but from those that are still open I can get around 40 to 100+ tons, and occasionally more. I've recently bought more than 3,000t from Cannon Complex station in Prua Phoe MI-B b17-5 (which is more than I've gotten from the megaships, there are now a few new full-size stations on the route too) - which is more than what I needed to get all the way back to the Bubble.
If you're travelling light, and stop to scavenge at every opportunity, you can make it.
Thank God!
Some people do not know how to prepare for any contingency, I just wonder how many how many carriers go charging off out into the black without even a mining ship or the knowledge of how to use one
Once I was returning from an expedition, and when I ran out of tritium about 3-3.5 kLY from the Bubble, I just jumped on my Beluga and fetched some from the nearest station. I don't really like to mine, though I have a couple of mining ships on my carrier if things go south. The point is, it's so easy to maintain a carrier; I just don't understand why people keep whining about it. To me, it looks like it's their problem.
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I've just taken my carrier out to Colonia and I had a similar idea to the OP. I was in the Bubble while most of my ships (including my Type-10) was in Tir. I had my new Type-8 but CBA with the hassle of filling up enough trit to get to Colonia and back before leaving. I stopped off at CB stations and was a little surprised to find most of them had next to no trit. However, consulting Inara gave me hope that (as noted earlier in this thread) the starports (rather than megaships) would have decent levels and so it proved. I found two stations on the route that had well over 10k tonnes trit when I visited.
I'm now parked up in Carcosa with about 5.5k trit on board, ie enough to get back to the Bubble without needing to refuel. So, the Colonia Bridge certainly enabled my journey, I just had to do a bit of research and planning. (Yes, I made a spreadsheet!)
On reflection, while filling up in the Bubble and jumping out to Colonia with the most direct route possible would probably have been quicker, I quite enjoyed the slight adventure of doing it on the Colonia Bridge.
I'm now parked up in Carcosa with about 5.5k trit on board, ie enough to get back to the Bubble without needing to refuel. So, the Colonia Bridge certainly enabled my journey, I just had to do a bit of research and planning. (Yes, I made a spreadsheet!)
On reflection, while filling up in the Bubble and jumping out to Colonia with the most direct route possible would probably have been quicker, I quite enjoyed the slight adventure of doing it on the Colonia Bridge.
Done that trip several times in my FC, and all trips I ended up with a full hold of Tritium when arriving at the other end, there's plenty on the route, but yes the smaller megaships don't carry much, they are there for ships traveling the route to repair, turn in UC data and stuff like that, the big starports are the ones that have tritium for carriers. Mind you some of the small stops didn't even give you basic services due to being shutdown by pirates and uprisings, always surprised me that, single megaship in the middle of nowhere being shutdown.