/r/FuelRats
The Fuel Rats are an anarchic collective in Elite: Dangerous dedicated to rescuing stranded CMDRs that have run out of fuel in-game. The Fuel Rats are currently on PC, Xbox One and PS4.
The Fuel Rats are an anarchic collective in Elite: Dangerous dedicated to rescuing stranded CMDRs that have run out of fuel in-game. The Fuel Rats are currently on PC, Mac, Xbox One and PS4.
We don't guarantee we can help everyone. Depending on your situation, you may be beyond rescue and, if you are, we'll tell you that.
We don't take money nor donations to refuel you. Our service is free for the community. We tend not to ask for payment, we like to do this because it's fun. We wouldn't turn down spare cargo, but that's entirely the client's choice.
Generally, we are proud of what we do.
Official website: http://fuelrats.com/.
PC/MAC | /r/EliteDangerous
Xbox One | /r/EliteOne
PlayStation 4 | /r/ElitePS
/r/FuelRatDiscussion (Fuel Rats Only)
/r/FuelRats
Didn't want to bother dispatch as I'm not currently in an emergency, but I was wondering if fuel rats have ever or do ever service carriers?
You see, for the last 2 years my crew and I have been on a galactic tour zigzagging across the galaxy to Beagle Point. I already mined thousands of tons near Colonia and managed to buy a bunch more from some other carriers stationed in Azura Initiative space.
Unfortunately my hold is now under half and at some point during our return trip I'll need enough fuel to make it to Colonia. The quantity would likely be in the thousands of tons to be delivered roughly 20,000LY away from Sag A on the far side of the galaxy.
I don't necessarily need anyone to help me mine the Tritium, I made sure my crew was prepared for that (although anyone who wants to is welcome) but I feel that if there were CMDRs up to the challenge, a group effort to ship the fuel from Colonia would immensely speed up the process and would drastically reduce my risk of defaulting on the carrier balance (as I would have to allocate my time to both mining and exploring life forms to fund the weekly balance).
Thoughts?
Was stranded after making a personal mess up and a fuel rat was dispatched to me within seconds and they were there within less than a minute! Awesome work guys! Your saying really stands true because I didn't have fuel and you did
Thank you A1-Ace for the rescue!
I started exploring and of course I ran out of fuel, I posted on fuel rats and got fuel within minutes. I thought this was automatic thing done by the server, but then I found out there are people out there doing the gods work, the AAA of Elite Dangerous. This game is 10 years old and to have a community like this just blew my mind. Thank you all that do the work.
I’m on my way to the coal nebula. I am trying to get to Synuefe RL-NA116-2 on solo play but ran out of fuel. Am I f’d?
Hello everyone! I have recently wanted to become a fuel rat and went to their website to sign up. I accidentally messed up the numbers on my email and now I can't verify my email to complete sign in. I contacted their support about changing my email and have not heard back. How long should I wait before trying to make a new account. Its been about a day and a half since I submitted my request. Again I dont know how long it normally takes them. Wish they had a way where you could just change your email on the website without having to contact support lol. Anyways, thank you for reading this!
So i want to get back in it because i can finally play elite again on my new pc. BUT there is no way i can get my NickServ password correct. Is there any way to reset it and assign a new password?
Hi, juSt posting here to show appreciation!!!! Got the game recently, have about 10 hours of gameplay and have been saved by you guys, would've been stranded otherwise!! Thanks again!!! Saved me a lot of trouble!!!!!
Hi!
I was wanting to join the fuel rats, I sent a request on elite dangerous itself, but when I go on line to the website to fill out the application I get an error so the site can't process it.
I am trying to be more social in the game, nothing is more social than helping that's why I want to join. I can do. It only fuel but also repair if needed.
Anyways let me know what I can do to join, I do have IRC so I can join the server later on if that works as well.
Well just like the tittle, i will appreciate the help
Heya, I was interested in becoming a fuel rat, but it didn't seem like there was a discord server anywhere that I could find--I did find some posts from ~3 years ago that explained why, at the time, they did not use Discord, but I was curious if things had changed in that time.
How's it going? I'm just trying to crowdsource help with organizing drills.
- Are there better times to ask for a drill than others?
- Are certain 'seers more likely to assist than others, and if so, which ones?
- Should I contact a 'seer directly, or openly through #ratchat?
- Will a submitted request (on the fuelrats.com service desk) last indefinitely, or will it expire after a time?
Basically, if I can't get one organized, what are some ways to get one scheduled more reliably? Thanks!
o7
Found these stored away from over 6 years ago. Any else still have theirs?
I just registered to join the fuel rats and was wondering how do I go on rescue missions
I MIGHT NEED FUEL OOOOPS!
I need fuel for my imperial cutter in the Audumui system Iam CMDR Junius Drakus
PM me with details
Found my first Fuel Rat fleet carrier today while doing the longest cargo mission I’ve ever attempted. Did I need fuel? No! Did I land anyways because I appreciate the Fuel Rats? HELL YES. Its name the “TAKE A DRINK FUEL RATS”. To the Cmdr of that carrier, I give a hearty hello! O7, thanks for what you do
Thank You everyone for being awesome,
i've had pleasure, years ago, being stuck somewhere in space on late friday night (for which im sorry).
Recently done some reading of GitHub and Grafana, since im software engineer by day i was wondering:
Is there any code contributions You guys would need to improve the services (that i could help with)?
Howdy comrades, fellow rat here. I’m out exploring the galaxy in Legacy Horizons, still packing my fuel transfer controller, and I was wondering if there’s any way for me to get a rat signal of anyone way out here, besides sitting in the IRC to get rat signals coming from the bubble.
I’d like to be able to help but if I can’t get any word of anyone out here who may need help, I can’t, so are there any good options for that kind of communication?
o7
o7 Commanders. I am interested in being a fuel rat. While I’m not 100% sure on the timing, I am sure about trying it.
I am on Xbox and play almost daily. Have fleet carrier (if needed)and have BP pinned with every engineer in the game including Lori Jameson and the 4 in Colonia. My current location is between bubble and Colonia and I am thinking about basing out of Colonia for a while so I could be useful further out as my guess would be the bubble is pretty well covered, even on console.
My current ship-friend is a leggy little phantom with 75 ly jump range. Highest I’ve seen for heat was 67% while scooping from nearly empty to full. She’s decked out w repair limpet controller, 2 amfu modules and an SRV. To add a fuel limpet control for rescuesI would take out the SRV while ratting.
Let me know what the next steps are. I have a couple prior obligations until about mid May but am willing to get things rolling.
TIA
Fly Dangerously and I’ll see you in the black.
I posted in the elite dangerous community about this but I ran across one of your fc members hugging a neutron star just outside the omega nebula Don’t remember the name but they might be in trouble Might wanna ask around in your ranks and see what’s up. I attempted to get close to land but decided it wasn’t worth the risk If I get on later I can try and find the system name for you guys but I’m already a couple hundred ly out
I joined as a fuelrat b4 and I want to do it again. Can someone help?
I'm thinking of becoming a fuel rat because it would give me a good way to contribute to the community but I have a couple questions.
Have just received generous help from a British Rat named Havenhurst in Elite. The problem I encountered, actually, was not fuel shortage. It was shortage of the knowledge required to comprehend the system of Elite and play the game as a rookie in the galaxy.
The England guy noticed this and tried to communicate with me by voice com but as a Chinese I’m really bad in English listening. His London accent is beautiful but I can only understand a little info conveyed from it.
He was patient, slowing down his speaking but it was still hard for me to get what he meant, so he had to teach me in the traditional way, typing, despite the pirates-concentrated dangerous system we were in.
The typing way of communication lasted dozens of minutes, as I remember, and I was so afraid he might lose his patience and be mad about my rookie-kind foolishness, but he didn’t. He kept guiding me step by step in order not just to let me simply get what I wanted but to make me truly understand how this button works and how that method should be adopted, until the issue was finally solved.
Hard to believe the likes of him serve us players for free and ask for nothing in return. Really wish more RPG open world games can have such great people in them, so that every player may get a hand when in need and feel the people-to-people love from continents away.
So I tried to talk to some fuel rats but I got stopped by kiwi.fuelrats.com what should I do to reach out to the rats.
No I am not asking this for fuel but I want to conduct an interview with a newbie fuel rat, veteran fuel rat and if possible the founder. I am working on a project to prove that even video game communities have discourse communities. So how do I contact them to conduct this interview?