Post #1943378
2024-11-11 17:08 UTC
This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats.
Elite:Dangerous is an MMO space sim game, with a big galaxy in which you fly a spaceship doing stuff. Spaceships need fuel, which you buy at stations, or if you have a fuel scoop you can skim the surface of certain stars to get usable fuel.
Space is big though, and it's quite possible to run yourself low on fuel in a way that you can no longer warp to any inhabited system to refuel. At which point you're screwed.
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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2024-11-11 17:11
Or at least you would be, in the game as designed. But one item spaceships can have is "fuel limpets", effectively small missiles that can transfer fuel to another ship. So, shortly after the game launched, a group of players formed the Fuel Rats, an emergency refueling service. Ran yourself out of gas? Don't panic, head to the Fuel Rats website and hit the distress button.
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@puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social 2024-11-11 17:09
@danderson@hachyderm.io Oh the fuel rats. https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Anaconda_Graveyard The Anaconda graveyard it's all coming back