So, here’s what we usually cover in a standard FuelRat debrief (you know, after we’ve attempted to, and hopefully successfully, rescue you): 1. Where one ship might be able to make six long jumps on a full tank, it might be three or four short ones with another ship. Various ships with varying configurations can have vastly different fuel tank sizes as well as jump distance capabilities.
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Now, without further ado … How To Avoid Running Out Of Fuel Take this into account along with #2 above, and you can understand why a normal “out of fuel” situation can quickly become a Code Red. Even in Solo Mode, the game continues to move, and sometimes the controls continue to operate in a manner that’s unexpected when looking at certain screens other than the view out the front of your ship. You can log out (and if you’re Code Red, we tell you to do so), but game time (which is very closely tied to real time) passes when you’re in the Galaxy Map, System Map, or Options Menu (if you were in game when you went to it). There’s a numerical indicator in “tons per hour” as to how fast you’re using fuel over the fuel bar. This is why when you hit the FuelRats site we tell you to power everything off except life support. If you do, and you run out of fuel, and then end up on emergency O 2, it will be unlikely that the FuelRats will be able to save you. Even if you give your game the time to get from the system you’re in to the next system over, it still won’t work – there’s a whole programming/code/game set of related reasons as to why, but just take my word for it: Don’t try it. Yes, sometimes people actually attempt this, even though the game tells them it might be days before they make the trip. So … let’s start with key pieces of information that usually make rescues harder on us than they should be: 1. And if my post stops one person from needing our services (or at the very least, makes it easier on us to get to them), it was more than worth it. But, writing these posts are as much a learning experience for me as it might be informative for you. There’s a better than an average chance that everything you’ll read here is also available somewhere on the FuelRats website.