Why does the route planner assume I have a fuel scoop when I don't?

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

How do I set it so that the route only plans for fueling stations? I got completely f*cked over because I thought the "fuel" icon indicated fuel stations and I somehow ended up in deep space without a single human station even remotely close

[ShelLuser]

The Galaxy map (as its name implies) accounts for the galaxy, not the bubble which us mere humans have created.

Question: if you don't have a fuel scoop why do you need fueling stars? That doesn't add up, if you don't have a fuel scoop you can only get fuel from buying at stations. Thus you're limited to the bubble.

[InsaneMatt]

If you're leaving the bubble--or just travelling vast distances--it's always best to have a Fuel Scoop.
As ShelLuser hinted at, humans only populate a pitiful fraction of systems in the galaxy. Hell, 99.7% percent of systems haven't even been "discovered" by players the last I heard.

Bottom line, if you're going to explore always bring a scoop! There's no Stations to dock at in the depths of space!

[Bannor]

Ummm, why do you imagine the entire galaxy is filled with fuel stations?

[phulcrum]

Time to call the Fuel Rats.

[Alyx]

If you don’t have a fuel scoop you’re doing something wrong lmao always have a scoop no matter where you are.

Also the route line will become dotted meaning after that point you’ll need to refuel.

[JL::Jose-Juan Kenobi]

lol... very likely you are not as far away from civilization as you think

[♥ Beepy ♥]

Get a fuel scoop, don't leave the station w/o it and set your map to scoopable stars only. There you're set and unless you have some seriously bad luck, you'll always be able to obtain fuel.

[phulcrum]

Scoopable stars are KGBFOAM.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Oedipus's Stepdad:

How do I set it so that the route only plans for fueling stations?

You don't - there is no such an option.

Inside the Bubble it's pretty easy to find a station near by by simply looking at a star system name. Or if you want to be sure - by filtering your Galaxy map by population size (use high population if you need stations with large pads).

If you go out into deep space - the are no stations around for many thousand of light years. So you must bring everything you need to survive with you. It includes a fuel scoop.

I got completely f*cked over because I thought the "fuel" icon indicated fuel stations and I somehow ended up in deep space without a single human station even remotely close

Well, you thought wrong. It can happen. We learn from mistakes and move on. C'est la vie.

[Carm3D]

You don't know what fueling stations a star does or doesn't have unless you explore it, or purchase exploration data for it at another station.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Carm3D:

You don't know what fueling stations a star does or doesn't have unless you explore it, or purchase exploration data for it at another station.

Filter star systems by population. High population systems do have large stations, regardless of you visiting it in the past or purchasing the exploration data.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Bannor:

Ummm, why do you imagine the entire galaxy is filled with fuel stations?

This is exactly how I first ran out of fuel in the game, a few years back. And yes, I called the fuel rats.

I'd never heard of the bubble, and I didn't know there was a limit to occupied space. (It's the distant future, and there was no fence around the inhabited zone.)

[tomimt]

Why would you go out without a fuel scoop? I mean I did so yesterday, but only because I had accidentally sold mine when I was kitting up Vulture to be as beefy as possible. I instantly went back to a station and exchanged some of that beef to a scoop.

[Erei]

The game already plan your route with the lack of scoop in consideration. When the travel line is full, it mean you can do it. When it's a dotted line, it means you don't have enough fuel. It's up to YOU to find a station on the way, not the game.

Also, I don't know how you went from "FUEL STAR" which is written on the map to "refuelling station".


For long range travel, use a scoop. IF you're stuck, call the fuel rat. They'll come, no matter where you are (no, really).

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

There's the bubble by Sol and the area around us, but how then did civilization get so far and isolated in some cases, when I have engineer locations half way across the galaxy? Like how did they colonize planets and build outposts that far away without a steady supply route of some sort?