ANNOUNCEMENT Gamescom Reveals - Fleet Carrier Details

[Gully Foyle]

So... first question I'd like to see answered (when more info is presented) is where in systems do they jump to? Can you move them within systems to a specific point?

Looks great though, don't read as a complaint, just first of many curious questions.

I think you'd have to pick a planet to orbit for your nav plot.

 

[Teall]

I can imagine SD... hundreds of personal carriers parked (and parched?) around spaceport...

 

[tanacs.imre]

Will it be destructible?

 

[NeilF]

Look forward to seeing the deep involved mechanics and gameplay these bring to the game...

 

[Kaocraft]

• Commanders can choose a number of loadouts for their Fleet Carrier, governing services/module and ship availability to support a number of different activities, such as:
  • Bounty Hunter
  • Mercenary
  • Pirate
  • Trader
  • Smuggler
  • Miner
  • Explorer
  • Search and Rescue

no goid hunter? that's potentially disappointing.

Isn't that because large vessels are unable to defend against shutdown fields? Hence all those capital ships and stations dropping like flies early in the invasion. A fleet carrier would be no different.

 

[EUS]

I know it's not Dec yet, but can you increase the carrier's storage please?

Seriously though, I like the fact that it can be modified, yet questions about re-modding it come to mind.

 

[zipline]

Wow, solo players can get one and 500lyr jump range?
Unique fuel source? Grindium?

 

[Ashnak]

DWE3 is going to be kinda dull.

Different, certainly. 500 ly per jump is only ~10 times the jump range of a fully equipped explorer ship. Depending on the resources needed per jump and the available amount of jumps per time (FSD cooldown estimates, anyone?), it may or may not be faster than a Phantom in neutron mode.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

So let me see if i understand this.

We are getting:

server tick jumps

and no way for squadron members to pitch in in order to buy one of these?

I really hope i'm wrong here.

The quote you truncated was:

• Schedule jumps from the Galaxy Map when you want and from wherever you are in the galaxy.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Different, certainly. 500 ly per jump is only ~10 times the jump range of a fully equipped explorer ship. Depending on the resources needed per jump and the available amount of jumps per time (FSD cooldown estimates, anyone?), it may or may not be faster than a Phantom in neutron mode.

It may not be faster, but 'Repair, Refuel, Rearm' just removed any risk from the activity.
Oh, and the Universal Cartographics module will help too.

 

[RolloTreadway]

Guardian SRVs confirmed then. AXI skins. AI npc crew for solo players. A pub on the Officers deck.

Space legs + carriers + interior decoration + alcohol

This is what I want. Make it happen, FD.

 

[Gully Foyle]

Need to wait for info on this, can they take damage for a start. For me the personal ownership does not make sense - maybe just me....

<whispers> ...we want .... npc crew.....

 

[colinhype]

Looks great, but how much is "a large amount of credits"?

 

[Jenner]

<whispers> ...we want .... npc crew.....

Yes please.

 

[Scoob]

"Commanders require a unique resource to fuel the Fleet Carrier in order for it to jump"

I hope this isn't a grind to obtain...but I'm looking forward to fleet carriers.

As FDev are making them one per Player rather than Squadron, hopefully they'll not be too many billions of credits...

Scoob.

 

[Ebel]

Only have about 11b Credits on hand, time to mine.

 

[Siobhan]

Looks great, but how much is "a large amount of credits?"

2.8

 

[Viajero]

So one fleet carrier per cmdr means usable for solo players!?
Nice!
Please don't make the fuelling requirments too onerous.

Presume you should be able to dock lots of your own ships in there aswell.

 

[Jenner]

Looks great, but how much is "a large amount of credits?"

I'm willing to bet FD have not dialed that in yet, hence the ambiguity.

Or they don't want to give us all sticker shock on announcement day. lol.

 

[Lestat]

Sounds great.