Post #2321977

2024-11-11 17:35 UTC

@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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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2024-11-11 17:38

@aburka@hachyderm.io I believe many fuel rats do the thing as a primary reason to play the game, yes. Rats provide their own fuel, once you're past the very early stage of playing the cost of fuel is effectively zero so it's not much of a hardship, the trouble is just being in a location where you can buy/scoop the stuff. So, more like experienced players (== fairly wealthy, owning fast ships that are ideal for ratting) donating their time and resources to give a leg up to others.

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@Ripp_@chitter.xyz 2024-11-12 09:45

@aburka@hachyderm.io I think most people go into fuel rattery after getting a sutiable setup. Fuel is also very cheep in elite dangerous, and actually free if your ship is equiped to scoop it from stars (which any ship planning to travel outside the small amount of inhabited space know as the bubble will be)

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