Unless I'm mistaken, all the planes in that photo aren't owned by the same pilot (nor is the Aircraft Carrier tbf).Can I fill the pads of my fleet carrier with all of my ships, allowing me to display and photograph my lovely fleet? Or is the FC just like a station or outpost where my fleet is stored away in the unseen depths, except the ship I'm currently flying? The most important function of any fleet carrier is to SHOW OFF our collection of ships! If this is missing, well.....
Is this your convoluted way of saying "No"? Make all the excuses you want, but if I "own" the carrier and I own all the ships stored on that carrier, then I ought to be able to see those ships on the pads. Where else are these ships kept? I don't see any mechanism to move ships in and out of the "depths" of the carrier like we have in stations.
Nope, I think the ability to have all your ships displayed on your FC is a great idea. Your IRL example is still flawed though.
Photoshop!
I would argue your IRL objection is flawed. If a rich man buys a carrier and a bunch of planes, you are saying for some magically reason he CANNOT display the planes on the deck. You are saying that the laws of physics dictate that each plane have a separate pilot in order to be on the deck at the same time. I've read lots of silly things in this forum this week, but your objection takes the cake.
Then fleet carriers are dead to meI guess you know the answer to that, Old Duck.
A shipyard inside a carrier behaves like a shipyard inside a station. You can't summon your stored ships to various landing pads for display.
What objection? Where did I say any of what you've claimed there?
Then fleet carriers are dead to me
An Asp hole?
The original thinking (which has since been proven wrong IIRC) is that you could only store as many ships as there are pads, because there is no mechanism to move ships into and out of unseen storage. And hence why a fleet carrier has SO MANY PADS and a "garage" that the pads lower into. The original thinking (at least my original thinking) is that any ship we transferred to the FC would occupy one of these pads / bays, and thus be visible. But instead, as you suggest, it appears FCs are using magical Time Lord technology where they can hold 32 ships and also have dozens of NPCs coming and going, and we are prohibited from moving more than one of our ships to a pad at a time.
