On empty and in a system you cant refuel from

I've upgraded just about everything on my Hauler now. Better FSDs take a lot longer to charge than the smaller ones. Switching power over to it helps a bit. Unladen I can make it half way to Lave from Wolf 1301.

Yeah, this was a valuable lesson that didn't cost me to much.

On another note: I HATE those stations that are WAY out on the edge of their system. I makes for a long haul!
 
I did a rescue mission for someone the other day from another forum board. After fitting an extra fuel tank and finally finding a station with a fuel transfer drone controller, I set off to rescue the guy. Fortunately he had an upgraded life support system and so had about 15 minutes to spare. Got him to log off until I got to his system, then logged back on and winged up with him to find out where he was.

Well, in desperation he had tried to fly to the nearest star and so he was over 100,000ls out from the jump in point. So I pointed myself in his direction, got him to log off again and started out for his location, checking my distance away from the main star as a measure to how far out I was towards him. He was only a couple of thousand ls away when I got him to log back in again, which I didn't think was a bad attempt at finding a needle in a giant haystack. Made the last few ls to his beacon and got him powered back up with just a couple of minutes to spare. It was pretty cool sending that first probe over and seeing his dead ship light up and come back to life again.

One of the most rewarding things I've done in the game so far. A proper user generated mission. Ed could do with a lot more of these sorts of co-operative activities that don't involve ganging up and shooting things.
 
It would be nice if you could send a SOS, then on the bulletin board a mission is generated so a player could get the details to refuel you, for a fee of course.
 
3 Minutes might work... but this requires strict and precise pre-coordination.

The Tanker jumps in and moves close to the last known Position he got from the Emergency Ship.
After being added as a Friend and once in position, the Emergency guy logs in.

A Wing is instantly created, Emergency guy activates his Wing Beacon and the Tanker should be able to drop into the Position within 1 Minute.

Tight - but it'll work that way.
Group mode is likely the best - since the last thing you want to happen is a failure of P2P pairing. Won't have the time to sort out such additional issues...

I'd take a shot at it - but I've never refuelled another Ship (does Target have to i.e. have Cargo Hatch open? Shields offline? Don't know...).

No you don't need your cargo hatch open or your shields offline, but turning it all off is advised as they all use fuel and until we arrive you need to conserve as much as possible.
 
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