Post #2321971

2024-11-11 17:30 UTC

When those calls came in, several people, who again I remind you get no rewards for this, signed up for an hours long trek out into deep space to rescue the stranded explorer. Due to the distance they usually dispatch more responders, just in case one of them miscalculates and ends up in distress themselves (e.g. warping to a star type that you can't refuel from, with not enough fuel to reach another star - that's how things go wrong for deep space explorers). I dunno, I find that pretty neat.

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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2024-11-11 17:46

Brought to you by the memory of learning about the fuel rats when I first started playing Elite:Dangerous, and then many game hours later having to call on their services when I learned that fuel scoops don't work on some kinds of stars, and was just dead in the water in an empty star system between two inhabited worlds. And yeah, my experience was just like in the brochure. I honestly wonder if real life emergency responders pick up fuel rat dispatch shifts in their spare time, because wow.

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@aburka@hachyderm.io 2024-11-11 17:35

@danderson@hachyderm.io are many players full time rats? If so how do they support themselves and buy fuel to give out, is it like a collective? Or do they have wealthy patrons? Or are the rats more like independently wealthy players taking on-call shifts when they aren't out pillaging noobs or prospecting for space gold or whatever you do to make a living normally?

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@andrew@ottawa.place 2024-11-11 17:42

@danderson@hachyderm.io I had never heard about this and this is delightful. Thank you for sharing! 💖

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@schizanon@mastodon.social 2024-11-12 01:39

@danderson@hachyderm.io what types of star systems can you gather fuel from?

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