FD please make the refuel feature with drones useful

cheekibreekisuka

cheekibreekisuka
the title pretty much says it all, I'm really concerned about the functionality the refuel drones will give, as in 1 Drone refuels 1T; that would be utter useles for a hypothetic "Tanker Role" ship on a exploration expedition.

For example: let's imagine I have a explorer anaconda, with 288T of fuel storage, 64T of drones and i'm in a explorer wing with various ships; asp with 64T 2x32, clipper with 80T, T6 with 48T; and all of them run out of fuel and I have to act upon my role and give them fuel to get out of the non-scoopable sun area; unless the consume of 1 drone means that I can connect a hose, pipe or whatever between my tank and my selected wingmate tank, and transport all the fuel I want to him (like half or full tank) then the tanker role for a explorer's expedition will be utter useless in case of emergency; because if the same situation occurs and i'm just fitted with 64T of "1 drone = 1 Ton" that would mean that I can only give 64T of fuel ONCE and that might be not enough.

please, make the ship fuel transfer a real useful thing
 

Stiffmaister

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Really looking toward rescue missions in the bulletin board..A human commander stranded in space with no fuel send an S.O.S. instead of self-destruction. The SOS will appear on the bulletin board of all nearby system. The waiting could last hour or days but the stranded commander will avoid the lost of ship, cargo, and eventually exploring data...couldn't this be a good idea?
 

Troa Barton

Troa Barton
Stiffmaister said:
Really looking toward rescue missions in the bulletin board..A human commander stranded in space with no fuel send an S.O.S. instead of self-destruction. The SOS will appear on the bulletin board of all nearby system. The waiting could last hour or days but the stranded commander will avoid the lost of ship, cargo, and eventually exploring data...couldn't this be a good idea?
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I like this idea a lot. Player generated BB missions a plus in my book. Would be nice to hunt down commanders this way too.
 

Kyokushin

Kyokushin
1T of fuel is be or not to be when you are in neutron star cluster in a short range ship ;)

I need refuelling only to one thing - to call a friend if i will be in above situation. I have always fuel scoop, but it is not enough sometimes.
 
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Bacon Sarnie

Bacon Sarnie
It would be good, but as Im 10 days out from the nearest populated systems the amount of moneywould have to be quite high for someone willing to spend that long reaching me, refuelling me then flying back
No good samaritan is going to spend lets call its 5 or 6 days, as I have dawdled a little to survey some good systems, flying to me to help for rep or good feelings
It would have to be many millions before I even thought about going that far to help some stranded soul
 

jgm

jgm
cheekibreekisuka said:
the title pretty much says it all, I'm really concerned about the functionality the refuel drones will give, as in 1 Drone refuels 1T; that would be utter useles for a hypothetic "Tanker Role" ship on a exploration expedition.
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They aren't there to provide a fuel tanker role they're there for emergency refuelling. What you are after would probably have to be an entirely different system.
 

DB Cooper

DB Cooper
Could have used this last night.
I had a long day and had about an hour to play, so I thought I would jump on and do a couple of rank progression missions. I wake up my vulture, I'm docked at an outpost from the night before they don't have a refuel station. I pick up a mission to deliver documents to a nearby system. It is also an outpost with no refueling capability. I notice that this station is near a res zone and make a mental note to come back and check it out. I go back to original station to deliver goods for another mission and head back to check out the res. I am litterly seconds from dropping out of SC to dock when I get a warning that fuel tank is depleated. WHAT! I look at the Gage and nothing, my ship emergency drops from sc and I am on life support, with no thrusters. I have been playing this game since Beta and always top off my tank when I dock, so, it has become so automatic that I seldom look at the fuel gage. It seems that flying back and forth between stations with no refueling capability has run me dry. I try an emergency reboot, but that doesn't help, still no thrusters. I try to log out and back on to see if that helps ( I know that is an exploit and I felt dirty doing it) that didn't help either. All I could do was watch the countdown as I slowly died. Well, I didn't die but my ship did. My emergency escape pod took me back to my last stop, and I awoke to find myself in a fully fueled and restored ship. Of course, my insurance company deducted 570K from my account for this service. there is not enough room in the escape pod for paperwork, so all my uncashed bounties must have burned up with the ship too.
Well that was an expensive lesson on fuel management. It could have been worse, I am really close to buying an FDL but didn't have enough time to do that --that insurance claim would have hurt a lot more
 
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