Fleet Carrier Year 1 Result

nafnist · May 30, 2021

Hello CMDRs,

We are almost at the one year mark for the release of Fleet Carriers.

Since release I have been setting up Buy and Sell Orders for all kinds of commodities. In the hope it could passively pay for the running costs.
Here is my result for the first year of Fleet Carriers in Elite Dangerous.

Thanks to all the CMDRs for being suppliers and consumers, be it on PC, Xbox or Playstation!

Red Rocket · May 30, 2021

After 1 year.
thousands of carriers sitting in the bubble plugging up systems.
Tritium expensive to buy and can not buy outside of the bubble and colonia.
if you want to explore with your carrier better like mining.

nafnist · May 30, 2021

I understand where youre coming from

Red Rocket said:
After 1 year.
thousands of carriers sitting in the bubble plugging up systems.
Tritium expensive to buy and can not buy outside of the bubble and colonia.
if you want to explore with your carrier better like mining.

Seems like a small issues, easily fixed, compared to the recent dlc. Not that I have any confidence in fdev fixing it.

dm06 · May 30, 2021

I have never relied on trading profits from the FC.
I do buy tritium and other commodities which I am lazy to buy/mine by my own.
The point to have the FC because it is mobile base. It stores all my modules and 40 ships I use most often.
It has 50bCr on its account which I got doing activities I like.

nafnist · May 30, 2021

dm06 said:
I have never relied on trading profits from the FC.
I do buy tritium and other commodities which I am lazy to buy/mine by my own.
The point to have the FC because it is mobile base. It stores all my modules and 40 ships I use most often.
It has 50bCr on its account which I got doing activities I like.

I wouldn't rely on this at all either. But it turned out to be fun, and I made a profit. Very unexpected.
Was lucky a few times, having low stock of LTDs when they got nerfed and same with meta alloys here in Odyssy.

Red Rocket · May 30, 2021

dm06 said:
I have never relied on trading profits from the FC.
I do buy tritium and other commodities which I am lazy to buy/mine by my own.
The point to have the FC because it is mobile base. It stores all my modules and 40 ships I use most often.
It has 50bCr on its account which I got doing activities I like.

It’s not just to lazy to mine for Tritium when out exploring. It’s just it takes about 1 hour of mining per jump plus time hunting for Tritium hot spot.
I would spend that time exploring, that’s why I am out exploring.
At least Explorers Anchorage should sell Tritium

Erei · May 30, 2021

So if I'm reading that properly, you made ~2 billions of profit, right ? That's interesting.

nafnist · May 30, 2021

Erei said:
So if I'm reading that properly, you made ~2 billions of profit, right ? That's interesting.

That's right. And I'm just messing about on my own here.

Erei · May 30, 2021

nafnist said:
That's right. And I'm just messing about on my own here.

Did you use stuff like the PTN on reddit, or the various trading/carrier subreddit, or just on your own ?

nafnist · May 30, 2021

Erei said:
Did you use stuff like the PTN on reddit, or the various trading/carrier subreddit, or just on your own ?

I used Market Connect to upload to inara, but that's it.

Erei · May 30, 2021

nafnist said:
I used Market Connect to upload to inara, but that's it.

Very interesting ! Thank you for the explanations.

I'll admit, it was unexpected^^

goemon · May 30, 2021

are your numbers taken from the ingame stats?

nafnist · May 30, 2021

goemon said:
are your numbers taken from the ingame stats?

Yeah, from the Codex stats. Running upkeep is calculated.

goemon · May 30, 2021

nafnist said:
Yeah, from the Codex stats. Running upkeep is calculated.

Inspiring!

but doesn't work on my side :-( (as i very often transfer commodities personally instead of selling or buying them myself, so i have a billion more spent on commodities, than earned via FC from them)

125K tons of exported commodities, 51K tons imported commodities according to codex.

nafnist · May 30, 2021

goemon said:
Inspiring!

but doesn't work on my side :-( (as i very often transfer commodities personally instead of selling or buying them myself, so i have a billion more spent on commodities, than earned via FC from them)

125K tons of exported commodities, 51K tons imported commodities according to codex.

I totally get why you'd do that. If only fdev gave us some more stats !!

Your tonnage is very impressive. Your FC must be a busy hub :=)

goemon · May 30, 2021

nafnist said:
Your FC must be a busy hub :=)

it is - i only bought it for manipulating the backgroundsimulation, and it is stocked with all kind of fetch-mission commodities (sold for 125% of galactic average), so a bunch of active bgs players use it (because you can get everything there in 1 docking). I'm always impressed how much it is used. i restock it once a week or so.

dm06 · May 30, 2021

Red Rocket said:
It’s not just to lazy to mine for Tritium when out exploring. It’s just it takes about 1 hour of mining per jump plus time hunting for Tritium hot spot.

aight, and my FC has 20000t of tritium onboard which I bought using its market with 200% price and that is about 60000Ly of travels (1500Ly i my max to HIP 36601).
I don't even know how many time it will require to mine such amount.
So the FC is just a handy thing which I can afford.

The Roofus · May 30, 2021

Wow, moaning about Fleet Carriers?

How retro!