Patch Notes Fleet Carriers Update - Patch 4 Patch Notes

I'm not seeing any changes to mining whatsoever.

Just went prospecting for LTD's in a triple hotspot, a hotspot, and away from any hotspots -- nada but a single surface deposit.

I'd say mining is dead, Jim.

2 hours, expended 192 limpets. Single VO hotspot. Found 75 Void Opals (5 asteroids total.. in 2 HOURS), 99 Tritium, 17 LTD

The patch has made a VERY minor difference over patch 3. This is B.S.; 4 patches and they're STILL not getting it right.
 
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Update - 28.07.20

Due to an issue found during testing, the date of this patch has been moved to Monday 3 August. It can still be expected at 11:00 UTC with an estimated 15 minutes downtime. Thanks for your understanding!

Greetings, Commanders!

We're pleased to confirm that the patch described in our Known Issues post from earlier this week is expected this Wednesday 29 July at 11:00 UTC with an estimated 15 minutes of downtime. Please find the Patch Notes and Known Issues below:



Please note that the above notes are liable to change as adjustments are made and changes are added or removed. Tweaks may be made up until the time of launch.

Thanks as always for your continued feedback!

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Ok. Major FAIL AGAIN!!!
Finally got the patches installed.
Both ships/Commanders are on the same station.
Both showed in the CURRENT GAME MODE "PRIVATE GROUP"
IN "SOCIAL" and the COMM PANEL" one saw the other in PG and the other one saw the other one in SOLO.
SO. No wing ability again.
 
Talking of purchasing, I purchased ARX for carrier custom this & that - is it time to ask for a refund? To be honest we are 4 patches in and it's clear to me Carrier Fuel issues are not going to go away. You would think they would have at least allow you to fuel from carrier cargo.

This ! And I'm thinking about trying to get a refund, too. At least the Arx for my Alt commanders carrier paintjob as it is pointless to try to establish a regular ferry service to/from Colonia at this point and the now totally useless carrier will be decommissioned in the near future.

Please keep us informed.


P.S.: would be fun to see support flooded with refund demands because of that issue… 🤔
 
Comparing to carrier - it has maximum speed too.
Exactly it is 1500ly/hr.

Forget the carrier, FC is not a ship anyway.

I just realized, that FC is much much slower than you wrote.
It only travels several km per few minutes, every 20 minutes.

Of course there is a small detail - FC creates a wormhole in the middle of this short movement, this is why for OUTSIDE observers it looks like it has traveled "a bit" larger distance. :)

But there was no travel, no path in this perspective.
Only start and end point.
 
It will not happen, this should already be clear.

Unfortunately FD will probably keep in silence about it, because they should have be more communicative in this area a long time ago.

Now it's too late, they can't really do any comment on the subject of Tritium
  • if they admit it's as they have planned - even more commanders would feel "betrayed" by keeping it secret when FCs were introduced.
  • if they admit that patch failed to achieve planned goals even after 4 weeks of testing - well, we expect SOME level of incompetency, but not to such extreme.

So, we're gonna need much more popcorn.
Simply ask for a refund en-mass - media hype - Keep the popcorn

FDev have two options, bring back some DEvs to finish Fleet Carriers and save some dignaty. Or Refund the ARX and look a little shabby at best
 
I was thinking in the same way. Either a fuel scope in the same way KGBFOAM fuelling works. Or that we simply just mine water as some form of fuel to the imagined fusion reactor on the FC. Then we possibly could use tritium as some form of jumponium.
It all points to what is likely to come in Odyssey ....
Scooping in some planetary atmospheres (maybe gas giants ?) ...

Possible planetary mining. 🤷‍♂️

Of course, they can't shout about it yet, because .... well they like to keep things secret. Maybe they are even taking notes of the problems encountered here and are designing new bugs solutions into Odyssey for the FCs.
 
Forget the carrier, FC is not a ship anyway.

I just realized, that FC is much much slower than you wrote.
It only travels several km per few minutes, every 20 minutes.

Of course there is a small detail - FC creates a wormhole in the middle of this short movement, this is why for OUTSIDE observers it looks like it has traveled "a bit" larger distance. :)

But there was no travel, no path in this perspective.
Only start and end point.
I wish you would realise the FC is a unfinshed roadmap item, 'given' to all players to increase ARX Revenue
 
Simply ask for a refund en-mass - media hype - Keep the popcorn

FDev have two options, bring back some DEvs to finish Fleet Carriers and save some dignaty. Or Refund the ARX and look a little shabby at best

Do what you want, I am having fun in my FC.
On a exploring - mining trip.
It takes so much time to go through all potentially rewarding sectors after every FC jump, land at biological signals, etc, that an additional hour of miing when is a no-issue to me.
 
You know what ? you should stop complaining and complaning. Just write here in the forum that you will not buy any " ARX " for real money anymore until they patch it back to normal mining.

I wrote that a few times to Frontier and I did buy 4 times " Arx " for 70 euros.
And I would like to buy again some.. But I am not happy as the game is now. I will not buy any " ARX " anymore as long as they dont patch it back to normal LTD mining and selling as it was.

This will change the mind of Frontier and patch it back to normal as it was and how we loved it all..

I dont like to play Elite and buy " ARX " anymore.. This is just a game for hobby and not a full time job ! No one has the time to farm so much credits for the carriers now !
I maybe sell mine soon.
 
Do what you want, I am having fun in my FC.
On a exploring - mining trip.
It takes so much time to go through all potentially rewarding sectors after every FC jump, land at biological signals, etc, that an additional hour of miing when is a no-issue to me.
exploring is not about rewards, at least after 2 billions earned on that and all upgrades installed to Conda.
it's about finding some hidden things. While u're on bios ... have you found 2 different bios in same system yet? I think I had once ... Main big star with big planets and smaller star as planet which had own planets ... and on those 2 I saw 2 different bios once.
Interesting to find out how often it happens.
Scan for just scan all - not really fun.
 
Do what you want, I am having fun in my FC.
On a exploring - mining trip.
It takes so much time to go through all potentially rewarding sectors after every FC jump, land at biological signals, etc, that an additional hour of miing when is a no-issue to me.
Exploring next to the bubble?? I bet you still see Signal sources hahaha - Well at least you won't have to mine fuel I guess
 
I wish you would realise the FC is a unfinshed roadmap item, 'given' to all players to increase ARX Revenue

If it was EA or any Take 2 subpublisher (Rock*, 2K), we would already have Tritium in ARX shop.
THIS would be worth some noise.
And those are VERY successful gaming publishers.

So, everything depends on the background and having some "bigger" picture.
I agree that ED should have played this somehow less "enigmatic", but I am a realist.
I do not expect too much for so few $.
 
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