Abducted by Fleet Carrier

hellomike

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Hi,

What if:
  • you docked a fleet carrier while in The Bubble with your 7Ly jump range Sidewinder, w/o a fuel scoop
  • left the game for a week
  • return to find that the fleet carrier jumped that week to an outskirt of the galaxy with the nearest system is 30 Ly away
  • and the carrier decides it will stay in that system for the foreseeable future

Does that mean you are effectively out of game play w/o the means to return to The Bubble?

Thanks for your input on this.

Mike
 

Bravo17

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You would have to self destruct and choose the "sidewinder back in the bubble" option. You would lose all of your extra modules though, but if in a Sidey with 7ly range you probably wouldn't have much in the way of modules anyway so it wouldn't be that great a loss.
 

Krash

Krash
As a carrier owner, I can say this situation is emergent gameplay as intended. I don't have a bulletin board in which to post a flight itinerary and I can't see who is docked at my carrier. Let the hilarity ensue. I offer cheap ship stock as an option for situations like this, but that's all I can do.
 

askavir

askavir
I expect the result might be somewhat similar to deciding to spend the night inside a random container ship anchored in the nearest port. You might awake in the morning and find yourself in the middle of the atlantic, and the ship's captain may not really care if you had a doctor appointment at 10am.
 

pnellesen

pnellesen
[VR] Orodruin said:
Don’t log off on strangers’ carriers that you have no idea where they are heading. This is not them abducting you, it is you making a choice to set up camp on a movable asset and being made to deal with the consequences.
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This - they have literally NO WAY of knowing you're there (amazingly poor design decision, imo) so it is NOT "abduction".
I stand corrected by XYZ below: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/abducted-by-fleet-carrier.553465/post-8670059
 
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Ghostmaker-71

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hellomike said:
Hi,

What if:
  • you docked a fleet carrier while in The Bubble with your 7Ly jump range Sidewinder, w/o a fuel scoop
  • left the game for a week
  • return to find that the fleet carrier jumped that week to an outskirt of the galaxy with the nearest system is 30 Ly away
  • and the carrier decides it will stay in that system for the foreseeable future

Does that mean you are effectively out of game play w/o the means to return to The Bubble?

Thanks for your input on this.

Mike
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Rofl
 

XYZ

XYZ
pnellesen said:
This - they have literally NO WAY of knowing you're there (amazingly poor design decision, imo) so it is NOT "abduction".
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Acutally there is a way to check if other players docked at your fleet carrier.
You need to go to options / decomission / and there you see how many your ships is docked to FC at the moment and how many other players ships are docked. 🥳
 
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Miko

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I find it pretty poor show from Frontier having been behind schedule with Fleet Carriers for years and then releasing them without us having the ability to know who is aboard and being capable of cross platform messaging them or at minimum being capable of ejecting all known ships not owned by the carrier admin who can then spawn in the area surrounding it.

Becoming trapped or losing valuable modules is not a good outcome.
 

Nikephorus Phocas

Nikephorus Phocas
Miko said:
I find it pretty poor show from Frontier having been behind schedule with Fleet Carriers for years and then releasing them without us having the ability to know who is aboard and being capable of cross platform messaging them or at minimum being capable of ejecting all known ships not owned by the carrier admin who can then spawn in the area surrounding it.

Becoming trapped or losing valuable modules is not a good outcome.
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Should Frontier play the game for you as well? Where is the personal accountability?
 

Bravo17

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XYZ said:
Acutally there is a way to check if other players docked at your fleet carrier.
You need to go to options / decomission / and there you see how many your ships is docked to FC at the moment and how many other players ships are docked.
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...and if they do find there is someone on board, are they supposed to wait around for them to get off again before jumping? I would think not, they may have stopped playing the game for a few months or so.
 

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos
Miko said:
I find it pretty poor show from Frontier having been behind schedule with Fleet Carriers for years and then releasing them without us having the ability to know who is aboard and being capable of cross platform messaging them or at minimum being capable of ejecting all known ships not owned by the carrier admin who can then spawn in the area surrounding it.

Becoming trapped or losing valuable modules is not a good outcome.
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Satire is hard, isn't it? On the one hand, it has to remain close the truth, so people know what is being satirised, on the other it has to be slightly over the top, so we know that it is satire and not simply a 'reenactment'.

I might have added something like 'If they continue to ignore this burning issue, I will write an open letter'. It is a bit OTT, but it gets the message home that it is satire.

Just a thought.
 
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