It's not that we NEED this Information before the carrier is in game, right?
ANNOUNCEMENT Gamescom Reveals - Fleet Carrier Details
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If you had read the tread before posting, you would have noticed that the answer to your question regarding the tick has allready been answered.
But just to amuse you. "Whenever you have the resources to jump". As stated here:
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Robert Maynard
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Indeed not - however the name Fleet Carrier suggests that it can carry more than one ship - it'd be odd if the owner, who had invested a not inconsiderable sum of credits, could not carry (at least some of) their fleet with them.
20+ pages and at least some enthusiasm for "new".
It makes sense to me, at least after reading all of this, that the scheduled jump function is both a: "when you want" and b: "because if there are 16 ships doing something, a nice timer in the corner stops someone missing it".
Since we cannot PILOT the thing, how else was anyone expecting the jump to happen when trying to line up your wing/squadron?
I mean, there's a TON of good thought here, but some of the naysaying (true some of it will be) is just knee-jerk hating from ex-players or those that, for some reason, live to hate this game and FDev.
I'll believe it when I see it - and I have some hope that this is a good and positive move towards the 2020 content with the carriers and what comes later (it'll be v1 people; things move on!).
I dream that I can call a ship or two along for the ride; so that I might mine a distant ring, and then disappear off to new things, or materials, and return for an onward journey. Doesn't feel like an impossible dream either.
It makes sense to me, at least after reading all of this, that the scheduled jump function is both a: "when you want" and b: "because if there are 16 ships doing something, a nice timer in the corner stops someone missing it".
Since we cannot PILOT the thing, how else was anyone expecting the jump to happen when trying to line up your wing/squadron?
I mean, there's a TON of good thought here, but some of the naysaying (true some of it will be) is just knee-jerk hating from ex-players or those that, for some reason, live to hate this game and FDev.
I'll believe it when I see it - and I have some hope that this is a good and positive move towards the 2020 content with the carriers and what comes later (it'll be v1 people; things move on!).
I dream that I can call a ship or two along for the ride; so that I might mine a distant ring, and then disappear off to new things, or materials, and return for an onward journey. Doesn't feel like an impossible dream either.
It is true nobody knows for sure, but it would be pretty stupid to release personal fleet carriers, with a currently undisclosed level of grind attached to it for fueling and a big price tag, but then not being able to carry your personal fleet... It would render the whole thing pretty much pointless.
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I know they were originally advertised or seem to be for squadrons although owning one personally would be great it would also be good to have lots of squadron functionality so we can work together and have an achievable goal to maintain it
Speculating... this seems to me to provide some limited cross-platform functionality. The easiest way to implement carriers would be in the same way as megaships and stations - which exist persistently in every mode on every platform. (That requires them to be non-destructible, at least by player action). I'm hoping that I can be aboard my carrier in Open, while a friend docks in Solo and another friend docks on PS4. (Although chatting in-game to the guy on PS4 probably won't be possible).
<Edit> I further speculate that the Squadron functionality will occur in the "who can dock" rules: one option might be "Squadron only". Maybe other settable options for "Who can refuel", "Who can outfit" etc.
<Edit> I further speculate that the Squadron functionality will occur in the "who can dock" rules: one option might be "Squadron only". Maybe other settable options for "Who can refuel", "Who can outfit" etc.
Been away from the game for a while, but this is interesting. As a mainly solo explorer I really hope to be able to carry a selection of my fleet with me. It would also be great to be able to submit exploration data as part of an explorer load-out, alongside repair/refuel services. Fleet Carriers could then function as a genuine base of operations for individuals or groups to explore distant, isolated regions of the galaxy.
Because it could be some kind of player-homebase it should have at least:
- outfitting to store and fit my stored modules.
- shipyard to store my owned ships
- Ship Transfer function of course
It is quite possible that shipyard is something that you can add. I got the impression that the carrier is customizable. But then again a carrier suggests that you can hold several ships.
Ram this!
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Does "driving off" use up some of the unique fuel resource? A new form of grieving is born.
It doesn't? Have your friends help you to travel for free.
It could mean that you don’t have to be on board when it happens, I am sure we will find out in a few months.
8A gets about 1t/second, which would sell for about 80 credits if you could put it in a container, or about 288,000 credits/hour.
An 8A scoop conveniently costs - without discounts - 289 million credits, so would pay for itself in approximately 1000 hours of continuous scooping, a bit more if you can't get close enough to maintain peak scooping rates.
(Unsurprisingly for this sort of work the 8E pays for itself considerably faster)
However, the fuel scoop can be sold back to the outfitters for 100% of cost. So technically any fuel scooped at all with it is pure profit provided you don't have to rebuy it at any point - each rebuy will cost you 20 hours of scooping to recover.
Well the programmers of Coriolis and ED Shipyard will to update their software.It's not that we NEED this Information before the carrier is in game, right?
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