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Chenni

Jul 8, 2017 @ 5:31am

How Do You Get Fuel?

Okay, first time playing. Done the shooty and mining tutorials, off to my first delivery. I kept on jumping to systems, but ran out of gas. How do I get more fuel? Iirc there's the scoop thing, but when I deploy my cargo it's not getting anything from the star.

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One Eye Jack has Elite Dangerous

Jul 8, 2017 @ 5:34am

fuel scoops work automaticly. You don't deploy anything, just fly close enough to the star and slowly circle around it. You will start collectin fuel then.

The other way to get fuel is to land at a outpost or station and buy it.

Edit: you do this while in super cruise.......you had to drop out to deploy your cargo scoop. Don't do that. Stay in SC and circle the star.

Last edited by One Eye Jack; Jul 8, 2017 @ 5:35am

Snipy

Jul 8, 2017 @ 5:35am

You should have Fuel scoop and then the you getting the fuel from the stars

here more info http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Fuel_Scoop

SirKarzee Jul 8, 2017 @ 5:36am

Either refuel at stations, or buy a Fuel Scoop. To use the Fuel Scoop just get close to a star and your ship will automatically start refuelling, you don't need to do anything.

Dolphin Bottlenose has Elite Dangerous

Jul 8, 2017 @ 5:54am

Keep in mind that not all stars can be scooped for fuel. So if you already have approached the star so close, that it turned red on your radar, but scooping didn't begin - it's the unscoopable star. Luckily, most of stars in the habitable Bubble are scoopable. Scoopable star types are K, G, B, F, O, A, M (KGB Foam - easy to remember). You can see the next star's type in an information field (top right on your HUD), when you start charging your FSD to jump there.

Last edited by Dolphin Bottlenose; Jul 8, 2017 @ 5:54am

funkynutz

Jul 8, 2017 @ 6:20am

Originally posted by SirKarzee:
Either refuel at stations, or buy a Fuel Scoop. To use the Fuel Scoop just get close to a star and your ship will automatically start refuelling, you don't need to do anything.

You don't need to do anything, apart from make sure you don't fly into the star... Sounds obvious... But you'd be surprised...

SirKarzee Jul 8, 2017 @ 6:43am

I was kind of giving the OP the benefit of the doubt that they would know that flying into a fiery sun wouldn't be great for the paintwork.

One Eye Jack has Elite Dangerous

Jul 8, 2017 @ 6:56am

It's actually fairly easy to get to close and accidentially fly into a star.....I know this from experiance, sorry to say.....;o(

Chenni

Jul 8, 2017 @ 9:56am

Hey thanks for all the help, managed to get it to work lol.

r_c

Jul 8, 2017 @ 10:42am

Originally posted by Chenni:
Hey thanks for all the help, managed to get it to work lol.

awesome! This game doesn't explain much as you go but thanks to the community and figuring things out through trial and error it's ok. I'm just starting out to and learning so much every time I play it's kinda overwhelming but amazing!😀

HairballHacker has Elite Dangerous

(Banned) Jul 8, 2017 @ 11:19am

Originally posted by Funkynutz:
Originally posted by SirKarzee:
Either refuel at stations, or buy a Fuel Scoop. To use the Fuel Scoop just get close to a star and your ship will automatically start refuelling, you don't need to do anything.

You don't need to do anything, apart from make sure you don't fly into the star... Sounds obvious... But you'd be surprised...

If you don't throttle down to 0 when the FSD count down starts (or while in witch space, or as soon as you arrive) your ship will start heading to the star upon arrival. Since you are so close to the star upon arrival, new players might panic and not know what to do before the sparks start to fly.

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Fiveball

Jul 8, 2017 @ 6:09pm

Originally posted by astroknott58:
It's actually fairly easy to get to close and accidentially fly into a star.....I know this from experiance, sorry to say.....;o(

I just did a short 1000ly trip out the bubble and came back to an edge station. Last jumping station system and I forgot to hit stop on the engines while in the shift tunnel. After shifting things got relatively hot.....

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Urazz

Jul 22, 2017 @ 7:54pm

Originally posted by Funkynutz:
Originally posted by SirKarzee:
Either refuel at stations, or buy a Fuel Scoop. To use the Fuel Scoop just get close to a star and your ship will automatically start refuelling, you don't need to do anything.

You don't need to do anything, apart from make sure you don't fly into the star... Sounds obvious... But you'd be surprised...

That and pull away from the star if you get too hot. Some ships run hot enough that you can't stay at a star for too long and fuel scoop to your heart's content. Though there's nothing to stop you from diving back close to the star to resume fuel scooping once your temperature is down again.

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