ANNOUNCEMENT Gamescom Reveals - Fleet Carrier Details

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SciTrekker

SciTrekker
CMDR_Raikkonen said:
Pleased to hear about modular upgrades. It would be awesome if a high end modular upgrade added NPC fighters / defense flying in formation around your fleet carrier (just like they do around stations). If this isn't already planned for - could FDev make it happen?

Also - how about a WEDDING BARGE loadout? :ROFLMAO: If I want to get married in ED then I'd expect to turn permissions on and have Commanders join me for the first time I've seen my whole family together.
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No. You won't go through with the wedding. Nobody ever does (in ED). But it was nice to see the whole family together. 😁
 

CMDR Big Mike

CMDR Big Mike
picommander said:
Not necessarily, I also could imagine some sort of flip ship mechanic, similar to that of the SLFs. With a longer range of course...
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There is no other method to get multiple ships in one spot other that transfer for purchase. I dont think the carriers will be able to sell ships, so i think they must be able to accept delivery via ship transfer. I dont know what type of system you are talking about
 

who?

who?
This has probably been answered a quadzillion times, but can carriers be destroyed? With someone's entire fleet on one carrier, it takes the potential for ganking to an entirely new level.
 

bigcee75

bigcee75
I get and am not bothered that we have to fuel the FC and I could be totally wrong here but if the support ship follows you everywhere do I need to fuel that too or will there be some hidden mechanism that takes care of that
 

Gut Rumble

Gut Rumble
Only thing for Exploreres this is good for ,would be a ferry service , it could take 16ships to the other side of the gaxaly and drop them off to go explore ,then in a month go back and pick them up lol , what a waste.
 

Skip Rockbounder

Skip Rockbounder
bigcee75 said:
I get and am not bothered that we have to fuel the FC and I could be totally wrong here but if the support ship follows you everywhere do I need to fuel that too or will there be some hidden mechanism that takes care of that
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Well, if it's anything like the life support system it will just run out and explode
 

Skip Rockbounder

Skip Rockbounder
Gut Rumble said:
Only thing for Exploreres this is good for ,would be a ferry service , it could take 16ships to the other side of the gaxaly and drop them off to go explore ,then in a month go back and pick them up lol , what a waste.
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Nah, as far as I see, you and a couple of mates could go do some 500ly jumps to an unexplored area and use it as a Base, to go do some exploring in the field have fun and return for fix or go eleswhere!
 

Dutchman141

Dutchman141
CMDR Big Mike said:
I assume ship transfer. If there is no ship transfer on the carrier, then I see no point to them. Since the start, I have assumed they will have some iteration of a shipyard that can do transfers but not buy/sell locally
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All of your ships will be right there with you on the Fleet Carrier using telepresence.
 

Guywired

Guywired
CMDR_Raikkonen said:
LOGICAL QUESTION:

How do we get all of our ships ON TO the carrier?

I buy one > Fly my cutter to it and land > How do I go retrieve the rest of my ships? :unsure:

And since there won't be any hangers on board ... can we view our "fleet" of ships out in front of us on the landing pads?
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SWEET, I thought I was the only one sweating this question.

Without a transfer feature it would be impossible to load all your ships onto it. But with the current mechanic that alone could be.. costly and time consuming.
 

Alien

Alien
CMDR Big Mike said:
I assume ship transfer. If there is no ship transfer on the carrier, then I see no point to them. Since the start, I have assumed they will have some iteration of a shipyard that can do transfers but not buy/sell locally
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I've had a foreboding thought .... Shipyards and ship transfer has not been mentioned by Frontier (someone please correct me if they have mentioned it)
AND given Frontier's track record of features aimed at encouraging players to play together (for a given value of "together")

I seriously am starting to think that the Fleet Carriers WON'T have ship transfer. You own one, you dock with it, you manage it from the cockpit of the ship you docked in ....
But putting your other ships on the carrier, NOPE.

Feel free to doubt me and disagree and argue all you want, but it's the sort of thing Frontier would do, introduce a feature and then mess it up royally somehow.
(P.S. Frontier, please feel free to comment and prove me wrong.)

EDIT: I should probably note that "Frontier royally messing it up" is entirely an opinion, and I accept other's and Frontier's opinions will be that Frontier have not messed it up, and that's Ok.
 
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Virandar

Virandar
Guywired said:
SWEET, I thought I was the only one sweating this question.

Without a transfer feature it would be impossible to load all your ships onto it. But with the current mechanic that alone could be.. costly and time consuming.
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Not if you have all your vessels in one station. You just have to get your carrier to that system. That would work for me. But not that nice for people who have them scattered over the bubble.
 
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