Newcomer / Intro Does fuel deplete during autodock?

Aasir Omondi

Aasir Omondi
I was in a system and out of fuel. Like, OUT of fuel. I received the announcement that my primary tank was empty, and so I started picking through landing options within the system to refuel. A lot of noise in this system, lots of junk, and I'm just getting back into the game. So, it took me a few minutes to look through Inara and find landing pads suitable for my Anaconda.

I'm in mid-auto-docking sequence when my whole ship shuts down, life support kicks on, and I just go crashing down to the planet's surface (was docking on a terrestrial settlement). No warning, nada. Just lights out and drop. But then I got kicked from the server. So, I figured there was some weird connection issue. I logged back in, and now I'm in orbit . . . all mods offline and life support running. Aaaand, I fall down to the planet, this time getting shot whilst in deadfall. Not sure which blew me up, the angry settlers or gravity's sweet kick in the nards, but I met an ugly rebuy screen.

I sent a support ticket into Fdev, because what the hell really happened? Did I simply run out of fuel during my docking? I mean, OUT OF FUEL during dock? Is that a thing?
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
1) While the ship is running (i.e. you're in it), it consumes fuel. How much exactly you can see in the bottom right of the HUD (above that wiggly line).
2) Next time call the fuel rats. If you're on life support, thats's called a Code Red. If they can save you, they will.

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aRJay

aRJay
As @Ashnak said your ship uses fuel to run everything, shutting modules down will reduce how much it uses but when it is gone you will have nothing but increasingly frosty windows and increasingly disturbing breathing noises which will last 5 to 25 minutes depending on the life support module fitted.
 

Aasir Omondi

Aasir Omondi
Ashnak said:
1) While the ship is running (i.e. you're in it), it consumes fuel. How much exactly you can see in the bottom right of the HUD (above that wiggly line).
2) Next time call the fuel rats. If you're on life support, thats's called a Code Red. If they can save you, they will.

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The Fuel Rats are Elite: Dangerous's premier emergency refueling service. Fueling the galaxy, one ship at a time, since 3301.
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It looked like I still had reserves. I probably blew through them looking for an L pad to land on, though. I thought about calling the Fuel Rats but all this happened during the landing computer's approach, so I figured I was safe. And when the server kicked me after the first bounce off the surface, I figured it was a connection issue. I really wish I was recording that because it was kind of funny.

Codger said:
Yep. Out of fuel is out of fuel. Autodock does not provide fuel. Now you know :)
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That's what I wasn't quite sure about. My tanks were empty but I had enough in reserves, and when I started the docking sequence and the ship was making its way down to the pad, I really thought I was safe. I haven't played in a couple of years, so I'm not independently wealthy like a lot of currently active folks (I only have about 300mil in the bank). This turned out to be an expensive blunder on my part.
 

Aasir Omondi

Aasir Omondi
Untilting said:
Just curious, how full was the reserve bar when you started autodocking? IIRC autodock makes plentiful use of boosting while manouvering, am wondering if this burned it up fast fast.
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Honestly, I wasn't even looking at it. Also, this was a planetary landing, so not as much boosting since gravity was doing all the work. I'm sure your thinking is correct all the same. I really wish I had a recording of this. Not just for the comedy but to review the footage for all of these little questions. :)
 

0threeleven

0threeleven
You have two fuel gauges, a big fat one (primary) that you can see being used when jumping and a much smaller tank (secondary) used for running the ships systems and super cruise, it's the thin line above your primary fuel tank bar and refills from that tank. The number displayed above the fuel, 1.24 as an example, means you'll burn 1.24 tons of fuel per hour. That number changes leaving highwake or when making a jump.

It's like Untilting and Timber McWolf said, autodocking uses a lot of aggressive maneuvering and boosting and landing on a surface requires constant use of the thrusters to slow you. I'm assuming you chose it because it was the only place offering fuel and a large landing pad, maybe go back to the primary star and commence to scooping next time.
 
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