Best star to practice Fuel Scooping?

[Phazon Xenomorph]

So I'm near Xihe if that helps. But what's the best star to practice Fuel Scooping for a beginner? Like Class type, color, etc...

[Ottomic]

long as it's KGBFOAM you're good. Bring a heatsink launcher in case you get bogged down on it and need to jump back supercruise.

[unknown.notregistered]

Almost any star. The only really annoying ones I have seen is a superhot white (overheat to hell and back) or a dark brown (next to no fuel to scoop) causing troubles. There is also this binary star has other problems with the jump-point landing me between them sometimes....

Largely for me, the scoop is a simple tool to scrape the edge off. There is two ways to do it for me; orbit wide, but at a moderate pace to rea-arrange bearings for a next jump and scoop fuel off the edge. There is a yellow-orange ring around stars and planateary bodies that are the warning edge to where you'll drop out completely, so aim beyond that, but keep turning to keep distance. Just watch the heat.

The second feels cheap somewhat, but is safer - slow down. drag your speed to a crawl, or near halt around the scoop range and inch to a good distance. With poor scoops you can do this somewhat easier as you can almost crawl to a halt to just linger and scoop fuel at the optimal range. There is that point to where you gain maximum fuel but the heat reamains stable and you won't overheat on almost any star. This is safer as you can slowly crawl in on the edge (like you were going to circle it) and slow to a near-stop to gather till you are full or have enough.

It gets much easier with larger-sized and better quality scoops grabbing more. My current Cobra has a fair B or C-quality size-4 scoop that literally takes seconds to fill all I need. Great for those rush runs across multiple systems where you don't want to think about stopping on the too-many waypoint jaunt.

[Phazon Xenomorph]

Which of those is regarded as the "easiest" though to scoop?

[Phazon Xenomorph]

Basically I'm looking for a smaller scoop. The vulture I'm decking uses the largest free internal compartment (4) for a hull package. So my 2 or one of my 1's would be more ideal which means a smaller scoop, but just something so I can basically reach community goals once I'm finished decking it (especially if the Community Goal is for killing Pirates which my Vulture is starting to excel at and built for).

So since I have to go smaller instead of larger and more reliable I need to know the easier stars for route planning if fastest won't exactly be safe.

[Soda]

M is the coolest scoopable star. If you want to practice, use an M star.

[Ottomic]

Originally posted by Phazon Xenomorph:

Which of those is regarded as the "easiest" though to scoop?

There's really not a lot of difficulty to it. Just get close and scoop, go far away to cool down.

[Edelweiss ✿]

Originally posted by Phazon Xenomorph:

Which of those is regarded as the "easiest" though to scoop?

all the same, you either can scoop it or can't, thats all there is

[Sir Harlz]

A really bright small blue star....those are perfectly safe. Just fly as close as possible.

[Devil's Advocate]

Originally posted by Profaned Sir Harlz:

A really bright small blue star....those are perfectly safe. Just fly as close as possible.

what is even better is the bright stars with trails coming off of them fly straight at it and curve right before hitting it to get maximum fuel possible :)

[Gropax]

turn on orbital lines and its easy mode just don't hit the circle around the star and you are good.

[tomg2012]

Get the biggest fuel scoop you can to reduce the time spent scooping. I like using a 4A minimum.

[Xmerwynd]

turn on your mouse widget and orbital lines. Put the mouse widget on the orbital line or just a little above it and 99% of the time you will have no overheating; you can use it as a guide to go to the place over the star where you get the largest volume of fuel, stop and pull up a little and just set and fuel. I have made two 21k trips to Colonia and am an Elite explorer. I have made many, many, many fueling stops. This is the easiest to fuel without overheating.