Stranded at the edge of the galaxy...

[Non Grata]

No other activity in the game can lead to the same losses (of real time) as death during exploration. A hold full of Void Opals is an afternoon, a hold full of exploration data could easily be 6 months or more.

I couldn't agree more - the only part of the game with any real risk as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Martyn W]

Is it possible for someone to mine a ring and get the necessary jumponium mats to drop and then the stranded commander can collect them.

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Is it possible for someone to mine a ring and get the necessary jumponium mats to drop and then the stranded commander can collect them.

No.

 

[Martyn W]

Hmm I wonder why

 

[Rixxan]

Here are some things that came up:

1. You can't transfer materials... why not? This needs to be a thing.

Is it possible for someone to mine a ring and get the necessary jumponium mats to drop and then the stranded commander can collect them.

It is not a feature as the game currently is.

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Hmm I wonder why

Currently materials are non transferable. My guess is that FDev didn't want people selling them for real world money and as such, made them that way.

 

[Martyn W]

I didn't mean transfer from one commander to another, what I was trying to say was if a commander did some mining and mats dropped he could leave them floating in space for another to pick up. I think that could work.

 

[rOmiLaYu]

I didn't mean transfer from one commander to another, what I was trying to say was if a commander did some mining and mats dropped he could leave them floating in space for another to pick up. I think that could work.

Yes, that could and does work. The problem in this instance was that the materials needed to synthesize the proper FSD injection were not present in the system in which the CMDR was stranded.

 

[Para Handy]

Is it possible for someone to mine a ring and get the necessary jumponium mats to drop and then the stranded commander can collect them.

No.

It is not a feature as the game currently is.

I didn't mean transfer from one commander to another, what I was trying to say was if a commander did some mining and mats dropped he could leave them floating in space for another to pick up. I think that could work.

That is precisely how Cmdr Macedonica was rescued by Cmdr Chiggy Vonrichtofen -

End of the Road

I've messed up. I am less than a thousand light years out from Beagle Point beginning a slow-boat journey home. Using the new feature in the galaxy map which highlights previous systems you have visited, I was retracing my jumps back and made a 50% boost into a system. It has one landable...

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The 48-hour Elite Dangerous rescue mission to the edge of the galaxy

An Elite Dangerous fan spent two days travelling across the galaxy to rescue a marooned player who had declared his gam…

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... There is now a tourist beacon called "All for Germanium"

 

[rOmiLaYu]

That is precisely how Cmdr Macedonica was rescued by Cmdr Chiggy Vonrichtofen -

End of the Road

I've messed up. I am less than a thousand light years out from Beagle Point beginning a slow-boat journey home. Using the new feature in the galaxy map which highlights previous systems you have visited, I was retracing my jumps back and made a 50% boost into a system. It has one landable...

forums.frontier.co.uk

The 48-hour Elite Dangerous rescue mission to the edge of the galaxy

An Elite Dangerous fan spent two days travelling across the galaxy to rescue a marooned player who had declared his gam…

www.eurogamer.net

... There is now a tourist beacon called "All for Germanium"

Right...see my post above. I misread the post and thought he was suggested material transfer. Yes, mining for others who then collect the materials themselves is a thing.

 

[Micha]

Is it possible for someone to mine a ring and get the necessary jumponium mats to drop and then the stranded commander can collect them.

Not only is that possible, but it's also possible for SRVs to mine surface materials and have a ship pick them up.

That's how we got Cmdr Frawd Digger (flying an unengineered Sidewinder without an SRV) to Beagle Point during DW1 :

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4cgbgh

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4cgbgh/distant_worlds_rock_rats_help_sidewinder_reach/



The problem, as has been pointed out, is that the system needs to have the required materials in the first place.. and some materials are restricted to either planets or rings.

 

[Para Handy]

Right...see my post above. I misread the post and thought he was suggested material transfer. Yes, mining for others who then collect the materials themselves is a thing.

Ah yes, sorry, I didn't notice that you had posted that one whilst I was putting together the links for that post of mine. mea culpa