Fuel for Hubologists and Tanker?

[golbat]

Trying to get my F2 game to the finish line and having trouble with the Hubologist quest line. I want to get fuel for their spaceship, but if I do that I can't get fuel for the tanker, there seems to be only 1 store of fuel. I've tried different combinations of talking to Badger, Dave, and Jing, but don't seem to be having any luck. I know San Francisco in this game has all the design integrity of a sand castle, but this seems really egregious.
EDIT: I have already given a copy of vertibird plans to the Shi, otherwise I haven't done anything else for the fuel quest lines.
EDIT2: I HAVE ALREADY BEATEN FALLOUT 2 BEFORE. I do not help learning about basic methods to progressing like badger.

[psychotron666420]

There's several ways to get fuel to the tanker, that doesn't require the hubologist fuel.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/The_tanker_needs_fuel

[Mennan]

Did you check the navigation computer and read the status list of things it wanted fixed? Sometimes quest interactions don't work if you skip a step. Because your character doesn't *know* he needs fuel yet.

[Mennan]

When you talked to badger did you already save his girlfriend? He won't help you if you haven't or failed to do that.

[Mennan]

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be scripted that there's only enough for 1 fuel transfer. However with exploits you can send the fuel twice.
Once by doing one of the original quests to transfer fuel to the Shuttle then you hack Dr. Jing's computer to send another batch of fuel to the Tanker.

Maybe if you're playing a patched version it fixes this exploit so now you can't fuel the tanker normally and would be forced to use the Vertibird to travel to Enclave HQ.

Take some psycho and buffout and talk to AHS-9 as a stupid character he will usually send the fuel to the Tanker for you once you kill the emperor (or atleast Ken Lee) for him

[golbat]

Originally posted by Mennan:

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be scripted that there's only enough for 1 fuel transfer.

and I'm pretty sure the game that has the side quest for transferring the fuel to the hubologists, and the end slide talking about it, means you can get fuel to the shuttle and the tanker.
I've tried a few other methods, checking the fuel status from every Shi workstation including the Emperor terminal, but nothing changes. Best I was able to do was get vertibird plans from Badger, get fuel to Hubs from Jing, then ask Dave to transfer fuel from the shuttle to the tanker, but that seems to take away fuel from the hubologists, which defeats the entire point and I don't even know if that affects the ending slide.

[Mennan]

Well yes, but in the original game plan there was multiple ways to reach the Enclave HQ.

One option would take the Tanker, another option would be steal a Vertibird from Navarro, and then the final way would be the Hubologist shuttle (don't know how that would work honestly).

Since the Vertibird and the shuttle method got cut that leaves only the Tanker unless your using a patch that fixes them. I'm using the restoration project and it does not seem like those were fixed (unless im using the wrong version).So now that cutscene is just another orphaned ending, just like the Living V13 Death Claw ending.

So it seems like now you have softlock prevention where if you send fuel to the Hubologists you can always send it back to the tanker and finish the game.