Out of Fuel? - Explorer Rescue Service, The Fuel Rats

Well I thought I was smart enough, careful enough, to never to have to call the Fuel Rats, then I ended up with 10% fuel at an unscoopable star with no stations, outposts, nothing. They were very prompt, courteous and offered suggestions to avoid the incident happening again. God bless the fine souls of the Fuel Rats. I made a donation to show appreciation for their fine work. Wish their merch store was operational, would like a T-shirt.
 
I had to use them today. Been playing this game for a long time, never had to call them. Was doing three things at once, coming back (rather impatiently) from a long time in the black, one jump after another, alt-tab, then back again....landing in a brown dwarf system and realising to my horror that with 750LY to my destination, i was out of fuel.

The Fuel Rats were out to me within 10 mins. Seriously. Unbelievable service. Saved my sorry behind and about 2bn in exploration/ cartography.

Cannot praise them enough!
 
You guys are nuts
I'm a long time explorer (~2016) but stupidly got myself stuck in a WD system after a misclick in the galaxy map and not paying attention until the jump started. A wonderful 20 seconds or so in witch space as I realized what I had just done and could do nothing but just stare at the empty fuel gauge
Despite being in a horrible location (Mare Somnia) it only took 4 hours for a rat to reach me. CMDR tblFlip you're a legend, I just looked to make sure and you saved me 19b in exobio data and ~2b in exploration data. Really like the whole process you guys have in your IRC as well

Will def be making a donation when I can
 
Enormous thanks. Ran out of fuel making cargo runs for the CG, whilst watching a film in the background. Will no longer try to shave off a few seconds every time, by not pressing the single button...

At the very least, I have the right avatar for this situation. Seriously though, thanks so much and all the best to you all. o7
 
Hello everyone !

First of all , sorry for my bad english, it's not my native language.
Second, sorry if my question had been asked before .

I would experiment a different way of play by helping others with the fuel rats, but i have some questions :

1- Does i need to leave my squadron to become a rats ?
2- Is it mandatory to be a full time rats or can i "work" for the fuel rats just sometimes when i want ?

Whatever, I want to thanks rats for being here for community
 
Irae69 said:
1- Does i need to leave my squadron to become a rats ?
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No. There are no in-game requirements for joining and participating in rescues (well, other than building yourself a decent ship for the task). To start the process you need to register at the Fuel Rats website and then read the instructions on how to become a Fuel Rat.

Note, however, that for practical reasons a decent skill at English is necessary. You need to be able to communicate efficiently with other rats and with clients.

Irae69 said:
2- Is it mandatory to be a full time rats or can i "work" for the fuel rats just sometimes when i want ?
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There are no requirements. You can do ratting whenever you want, as often or as rarely as you want. When not ratting, you can do whatever you want (as long as you don't do it in the name of the Fuel Rats).
 
I am writing an article on the Fuel Rats for the DW3 Newsletter and wondered if I could:
1) Have permission to quote the current rescue stats from the Fuel Rats website.
1a) Have permission to quote a couple of sentences from the history section of the Fuel Rats website.
2) Observe a rescue or go through/attend a training exercise and take screenshots.
I'm leaving the Bubble with the rest of the DW3 fleet on the 18th, so can someone please let me know, or let me know whom to contact more directly, within the next couple of days, please, by Saturday 17th at the very latest.
 
Edelgard von Rhein said:
I am writing an article on the Fuel Rats for the DW3 Newsletter and wondered if I could:
1) Have permission to quote the current rescue stats from the Fuel Rats website.
1a) Have permission to quote a couple of sentences from the history section of the Fuel Rats website.
2) Observe a rescue or go through/attend a training exercise and take screenshots.
I'm leaving the Bubble with the rest of the DW3 fleet on the 18th, so can someone please let me know, or let me know whom to contact more directly, within the next couple of days, please, by Saturday 17th at the very latest.
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I'd recommend that you ask on the Fuel Rats IRC server. To do this go to our rescue request form ( https://fuelrats.com/i-need-fuel ) but instead of requesting fuel, click the "I don't need fuel but I still want to chat" button (that will connect you to a channel where rats hang out but where you will not interfere with any live rescues that might be going on at the time). You'll need to talk to one of our Admins or operations rats in order to get permissions to quote stuff.

I very much doubt that you'd get permission to attend a rescue or take screenshots from rescues, we'd not normally allow that (however it's not for me to say yes or no).
 
Thanks very much, I'll do that this evening!
A training exercise would be fine for screenshots. It would not be authentic if I took screenshots of myself refuelling an NPC in a Distress Call signal source (that's pretty much a last resort - I'd probably just use a screenshot of myself launching a limpet, or showing one attached to my hull.)
 
Edelgard von Rhein said:
Thanks very much, I'll do that this evening!
A training exercise would be fine for screenshots. It would not be authentic if I took screenshots of myself refuelling an NPC in a Distress Call signal source (that's pretty much a last resort - I'd probably just use a screenshot of myself launching a limpet, or showing one attached to my hull.)
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I think it's unlikely they will take outsiders into an exercise because fuel rat exercises are quite a serious business with quite some bureaucracy. :)

Anyway, from the outside it would just look like a ship sending limpets to another. You doing this with another commander wouldn't look any different.
 
OK, then, I'll just ask for permission to quote from the website. Thanks for responding!
EDIT: not able to use IRC for some reason! I need to find one of their admins elsewhere and ask.
 
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Edelgard von Rhein said:
OK, then, I'll just ask for permission to quote from the website. Thanks for responding!
EDIT: not able to use IRC for some reason! I need to find one of their admins elsewhere and ask.
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The method I told you should put you into a web portal that connects to our IRC. To all intents and purposes it's just a website.
 
That's what I did but I just wound up not connecting, with a blank page on the right and the start button still greyed out after entering a nickname - and I have no password to tick the 'I have a password' box.
I've contacted a well-known member via forum DM, so hopefully I'll get a response that way.
 
Many thanks to the Fuel Rats today - after eleven years and a month playing the game, I finally messed up and ran out of fuel, traversing the brown dwarf layer without noticing how low my fuel was. The rescue, in spite of my bad typing and being 44KLY from Sol, was swiftly and professionally concluded (about ten jumps away from Rendezvous Point). o7 and fly safe!
 
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