Fuel Collector OXP - Revision history

Cholmondely: Updated link

2026-03-27T10:36:30Z

Updated link

Cholmondely: Tried to clarify

2026-03-27T09:46:11Z

Tried to clarify

Phkb: Updating BB links

2024-02-29T01:46:37Z

Updating BB links

Cholmondely: /* Gameplay and Balance Indicator */ Added tip about Autopause

2022-11-08T12:28:20Z

‎Gameplay and Balance Indicator: Added tip about Autopause

Cholmondely: Tweaks, note on conflicts, note on Scriptable Pause

2022-09-30T10:30:02Z

Tweaks, note on conflicts, note on Scriptable Pause

Cholmondely: /* Links */ Added another

2021-10-11T00:47:31Z

‎Links: Added another

Cholmondely: /* Requirements */ Tweak!

2021-07-06T09:29:49Z

‎Requirements: Tweak!

Cholmondely: /* Gameplay and Balance Indicator */ Oops

2021-07-06T08:59:46Z

‎Gameplay and Balance Indicator: Oops

Cholmondely: Note on updating via Interstellar Tweaks

2021-07-06T08:59:11Z

Note on updating via Interstellar Tweaks

Cholmondely: /* Fuel Tweaks */ added OXP

2021-03-25T15:34:12Z

‎Fuel Tweaks: added OXP

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 == Tips ==
-It takes a lo-o-o-ong time to collect enough fuel for a long jump. You might find [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=280118#p280118 Scriptable Pause/AutoPause] useful - but be aware of its limitations...
+It takes a lo-o-o-ong time to collect enough fuel for a long jump. You might find [[Autopause]] useful - but be aware of its limitations...
 == Links ==
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 [[File:Tag-colour-blue.png|right]]
 The ability to harvest fuel in almost all circumstances makes the game much easier.
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 [[File:Fuel scoop small.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Fuel Scoop]]
 == History ==
 The Navy wanted a way to give its pilots in witchspace a chance to leave witchspace, even when all their fuel had been used up. Fuel tanks were an option, however, each fuel tank takes up a missile pylon, something vitally needed for missiles when in the midst of a battle with the Thargoids. Navy brass turned to the DTP Design agency to develop, in cooperation with MIT, the Fuel Scoop Enhancer, a device MIT had worked on in the past.
 After a year of research and field testing, the Fuel Collector, as it was now called, began being fitted to Navy ships. Recognising the value of such a device to all space-farers, it was not long before it was also released to the general public.
-Originally the Navy also wanted the Fuel Collector to be able to scoop fuel from wrecked Thargoid ships, but field testing showed that the Thargoids are using a fuel solution that is twice as thin as that of normal vessels. Their technology seems to be able to use this thinned fuel, which also explains why they are able to jump twice as far as normal vessels without breaking the 7.0 ly usage barrier. Concentrating this fuel into normal fuel is a job for a refining plant - not something you can put on any normal ship.
+Originally the Navy ''also'' wanted the Fuel Collector to be able to scoop fuel from wrecked Thargoid ships, but field testing showed that the Thargoids are using a fuel solution that is twice as thin as that of normal vessels. Their technology seems to be able to use this thinned fuel, which also explains why they are able to jump twice as far as normal vessels without breaking the 7.0 ly usage barrier. Concentrating this fuel into normal fuel is a job for a refining plant - not something you can put on any normal ship. So the Fuel Collector failed in meeting this second design goal, however it works perfectly fine for ships that are not of Thargoid origin.
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 [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=4861#p4861 RabidVixen] (2005). This is a prime example of [[Handwavium]].
-== Fuel Tweaks OXP ==
+== Requirements & Updates ==
-[[Fuel Tweaks]] takes these capabilities and adds extra (with new equipment), allowing sale of surplus collected fuel.
+Latest version of this [[OXP]] requires Oolite v1.74+.
-== Requirements & Updates ==
+In the more recent versions of Oolite (v1.80 and later), Fuel Collector works less well in Interstellar Space. This is corrected by [[Interstellar Tweaks]]: the lack of a license precludes updating Fuel Collector itself.
 === Conflicts ===
 This does not work with [[Hard Way]] from the [[Strangers World]] suite of OXP's due to similarities in the code
 == Downloads ==
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 *50% average extraction speed
 *20% worst extraction speed
-The closer you are to the sun the better the extraction: however too close to the sun and the fuel collector will shut down to protect itself from damage....
+The closer you are to the sun the better the extraction: however, ''too'' close to the sun and the fuel collector will shut down to protect itself from damage....
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   Reversing the field output has two effects. First of all, it has an unfortunate tendency to make people sick to their stomachs on smaller craft due to the harmonic wave profile, and secondly, it makes my life a whole lot harder as I have to go back to watching ST:TNG to get in the right frame of mind to generate more tekbab.
-[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=4861#p4861 RabidVixen] (2005). This is a prime example of [[Handwavium]].
+[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=4861#p4861 RabidVixen] (2005). This is a prime example of [[Handwavium]].
 == Fuel Tweaks OXP ==
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 == Appendix: Original MIT specification goals in extracting fuel ==
-From [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=54268#p54268 another 2007 thread]:
+From [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=54268#p54268 another 2007 thread]:
 === Normal Space (interplanetary space) ===
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 == Tips ==
-It takes a lo-o-o-ong time to collect enough fuel for a long jump. You might find [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=280118#p280118 Scriptable Pause/AutoPause] useful - but be aware of its limitations...
+It takes a lo-o-o-ong time to collect enough fuel for a long jump. You might find [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=280118#p280118 Scriptable Pause/AutoPause] useful - but be aware of its limitations...
 == Links ==
-*This OXP was devised by Frame. There is a thread [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4883 here] on the BB (2008).
+*This OXP was devised by Frame. There is a thread [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4883 here] on the BB (2008).
-*And an earlier one [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3026 Fuel Scoops Enhancer] (2007) by [[User:Commander McLane|Commander McLane]].
+*And an earlier one [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3026 Fuel Scoops Enhancer] (2007) by [[User:Commander McLane|Commander McLane]].
 == Gameplay and Balance Indicator ==
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 The ability to harvest fuel in almost all circumstances makes the game much easier.
-Since scooping is slo-o-ow, you might like to try out [[File:Autopause.oxz|Autopause.oxz download]]: lets the game run and will then pause itself on red-alert  (see [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18900 Autopause (BB Thread)] for more detail).
+Since scooping is slo-o-ow, you might like to try out [[File:Autopause.oxz|Autopause.oxz download]]: lets the game run and will then pause itself on red-alert  (see [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18900 Autopause (BB Thread)] for more detail).
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 [[File:Tag-colour-blue.png|right]]
 The ability to harvest fuel in almost all circumstances makes the game much easier.
 {{equipment-OXP}}

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 == History ==
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 == Requirements & Updates ==
 Latest version of this [[OXP]] requires Oolite v1.74+. In the more recent versions of Oolite (v1.80 and later), Fuel Collector works less well in Interstellar Space. This is corrected by [[Interstellar Tweaks]]: the lack of a license precludes updating Fuel Collector itself.
 == Downloads ==
+The most recent version is downloadable through the in-game [[Expansions Manager]]
 Older versions:
-* [http://www.box.net/shared/p8y5x8dnzu4dkor5qanj ''Fuel Collector V0.07''] Beta Version.
+* [http://app.box.net/shared/p8y5x8dnzu4dkor5qanj ''Fuel Collector V0.07''] Beta Version.
-* [http://www.box.net/shared/6r8hqn6zas ''Fuel Collector V0.06''] (for Oolite versions 1.70 - 1.73.4)
+* [http://app.box.net/shared/6r8hqn6zas ''Fuel Collector V0.06''] (for Oolite versions 1.70 - 1.73.4)
-== Appendix ==
+== Appendix: Original MIT specification goals in extracting fuel ==
 From [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=54268#p54268 another 2007 thread]:
 === Normal Space (interplanetary space) ===
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 *About 30 seconds at best conditions, while player is at maximum speed... that's 35 mins for a full tank.
-===== Speed intervals =====
+==== Speed intervals ====
 *Over 100% the fuel collector will shut off
 *90%-100% best extraction speed
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 *If the targeting computer detects a derelict ship, it will start to extract fuel from the ship in question by sending special commands to the ship's onboard computer. If successful the ship will start to vent its fuel: the player has to be less than 300 meters from the ship in question. Sometimes other pilots have boobytrapped their ship to self-detonate, if a computer infection is detected while no pilot is aboard. Such booby-trapping is however a time consuming effort, and many do not do it, while the most scurrilous of pirates do it so that the police cannot find their lairs.
 *Military & police Computers have far too good a protection to be infected by the standard hacking software onboard civilian vessels.
 == Gameplay and Balance Indicator ==

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 == Requirements ==
-Latest version of this [[OXP]] requires Oolite v1.74+.
+Latest version of this [[OXP]] requires Oolite v1.74+. In the more recent versions of Oolite (v1.80 and later), Fuel Collector works less well in Interstellar Space. This is corrected by [[Interstellar Tweaks]]: the lack of a license precludes updating Fuel Collector itself.
 == Downloads ==
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 == Links ==
-This OXP was devised by Frame. There is a thread [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4883 here] on the BB.
+This OXP was devised by Frame. There is a thread [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4883 here] on the BB (2008).
 == Appendix ==
-From a [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=54268#p54268 another 2007 thread]:
+From [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=54268#p54268 another 2007 thread]:
 === Original MIT specification goals in extracting fuel ===
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 ==== Target Fuel Extraction ====
-* Status: Working
+*Status: Working
 *Originally the military also wanted the Fuel Collector to be able to scoop fuel from wrecked Thargoid ships, but field testing showed that the thargoids are using a fuel solution that is twice as thin as that of normal vessels.. their technology seems to be able to use this thinned fuel, witch also explains why they are able to jump twice as far as normal vessels without breaking the 7.0 ly usage barrier. Concentrating this fuel into normal fuel, is a job for a refining plant.. not something you can put on any normal ship...
 *So the fuel collector failed in meeting this design goal, however it works perfectly fine for ships that are not of thargoid origin.. which is why allready some pilots have started to rename the fuel collector into the "soul collector". Rumours are that pirates already have a Fuel Collector. while no one can explain where they got it from...
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 *If the targeting computer detects a derelict ship, it will start to extract fuel from the ship in question by sending special commands to the ship's onboard computer. If successful the ship will start to vent its fuel: the player has to be less than 300 meters from the ship in question. Sometimes other pilots have boobytrapped their ship to self-detonate, if a computer infection is detected while no pilot is aboard. Such booby-trapping is however a time consuming effort, and many do not do it, while the most scurrilous of pirates do it so that the police cannot find their lairs.
 *Military & police Computers have far too good a protection to be infected by the standard hacking software onboard civilian vessels.
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