I have a bit of time on my hands so I figured why not write something about it. I still have some investigating to do but it's probably my fault. I wrote down my purchases from a new system and somehow wrote the wrong orbital name down. I got to what I thought was my 2nd to last stop with fuel for enough to one more leap.
I was making a couple grand more without fuel scoop so I ditched it for cargo room. Well I get to this stop and to be safe I checked my last stop to be sure it was correct and ofc NOT! Lol, so I look at my nav screen and there is 2 jumps highlighted and I could already tell that they had no orbitals in them. I then start looking on map and nothing in range. I sit there shaking my head eyeballing the destruct button and a tear rolls down my cheek.
Wait...wait a minute, I have cargo weighing me down...
I start playing with the slider to see how much more jump I can get without some cargo and little by little I'm not having much luck. I drop the slider to zero and have a few more selections but not many. I was able to move it up and save 28 cargo and there was one jump with a large orbital. (oh yeah btw, I can only use large landing pads.) Luckily I looked at my fuel meter and it was totally filled and I would have made the jump but probably not enough to fly the rest of the way, so I dumped them all.
Turns out the flight from the star to orbital, well it says in title but 275k+ and I just pulled in
with this much fuel left
I will be double checking my routes from now on, that's fer sure or go back to the fuel scoop...Hmmm...
I was making a couple grand more without fuel scoop so I ditched it for cargo room. Well I get to this stop and to be safe I checked my last stop to be sure it was correct and ofc NOT! Lol, so I look at my nav screen and there is 2 jumps highlighted and I could already tell that they had no orbitals in them. I then start looking on map and nothing in range. I sit there shaking my head eyeballing the destruct button and a tear rolls down my cheek.
Wait...wait a minute, I have cargo weighing me down...
I start playing with the slider to see how much more jump I can get without some cargo and little by little I'm not having much luck. I drop the slider to zero and have a few more selections but not many. I was able to move it up and save 28 cargo and there was one jump with a large orbital. (oh yeah btw, I can only use large landing pads.) Luckily I looked at my fuel meter and it was totally filled and I would have made the jump but probably not enough to fly the rest of the way, so I dumped them all.
Turns out the flight from the star to orbital, well it says in title but 275k+ and I just pulled in
with this much fuel left I will be double checking my routes from now on, that's fer sure or go back to the fuel scoop...Hmmm...
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