The Dumbest thing I've ever done in Elite
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This sounds like a job for... THE FUEL RATS!
In your defense, at least you made it to the station. I assume the fuel margins are so thin because SCO?
In your defense, at least you made it to the station. I assume the fuel margins are so thin because SCO?
it was when i trusted the docking computer and it smashed my cutter like an accordian against the side of the station. also when i started playing i tried jumping to the center of the galaxy and didnt know i needed a fuel scoop
The dumbest thing I ever did in ED was looking for Raxxla. The second dumbest was starting a colony. All in the last three weeks. My inner commander currently has the self esteem of a moldy turnip (if moldy turnips were self-aware, obviously).
I doubt that. A cutter in SCO burns through its fuel at around 100,000 ls. I frequently have 5% left when I get to my colony ship about 78kls from the arrival point. 5% fuel was maybe still enough to jump to Sol, though?
If there was no SCO use then I'd expect plenty of fuel remaining. (When I have a long supercruise distance to cover and have a SCO drive I use SCO as much as I can without running out of fuel so that by the time I arrive I'm very low on fuel. I don't leave it in SCO then wander off to make coffee, I just use SCO to speed up the trip as much as the fuel reserves will allow)
Maybe. I haven't tried cruising the 6.78 million ls to Hutton Orbital in a cutter with or without SCO, so I can't say for sure. I doubt I've taken it farther than about 450k. There aren't really any other long cruises that compare to Hutton unless a guy just cruises to the limit of a system.
Exactly, SCO!
I think I'd rather take the hit and keep playing than skip a whole evening waiting for rescue and then flying back - all for nothing.
This is why I used the Cutter - lots of fuel. But I forgot that the station doesn't have large pads.
Jump to the very nearest star with a station with large pads, it will take a tiny amount of fuel, then fly carefully, no SCO, to the nearest station!
When I first looked I though the dumb thing was almost running out of fuel. It has only just clicked that you can't land. I hate this getting old crap.
So that's my dumbest thing for today... but I still think yours is dumber
Hope the suggestions above get you home (or to a servo at least).
So that's my dumbest thing for today... but I still think yours is dumber
Hope the suggestions above get you home (or to a servo at least).
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There might actually be an open carrier nearby.
I've just done the dumbest thing I've ever done in Elite. In my defense I've been away some years and I'm a bit rusty
As you can see I cannot land and I cannot refuel.
There might actually be an open carrier nearby.
wow, could that be possible? I'll try!
Yes, it will use only a tiny fraction of the fuel needed for a long jump, you may not even see the fuel bar drop, then a long slow cruise to the nearest station in the system. You still have fuel left in your main tank plus auxiliary fuel, you should have plenty. The other option if it is to far is to generate a FSD boost using Jumponium, then jump to the nearest useful star, that will reduce the fuel requirement by half.
Yeehaa, you did it! I was able to limp home to Sol and dock there. Thanks for the help, you saved me 20 million credits and a bunch of engineering!
Given that the stranded CMDR was able to save themselves after your advice, I think that makes you an honorary Fuel Rat!?
(I am not a Fuel Rat, I do not speak for them or know their ways, but you kinda rescued someone from their fuel stranding, so I think it should count
)Given that the stranded CMDR was able to save themselves after your advice, I think that makes you an honorary Fuel Rat!?
(I am not a Fuel Rat, I do not speak for them or know their ways, but you kinda rescued someone from their fuel stranding, so I think it should count
You learn a lot about distance and fuel use when you are out on the edge of the galaxy, just you and your ship and nothing else for 20kly, lessons learned, lessons imparted, that is the way!