I think it's a fair fee. They paid for the module for it to be installed, they have weekly costs for having in the deep black. They did the grind for the FC initally and for the mining resourses it took to get it there. All so us explorers can have a place to repair and recharge. We shouldn't be expecting something for nothing. Perhaps it needs to be made more clear to the user when selling data. But to assume it would be a free service is a little naive(I don't mean offence with that). To me its justified and I'll actively sell to them to help with the costs
Selling exploration data to fleet carriers: do they take much of a fee?
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The fallacy in this piece is that half of that fee doesn't go to the FC, it is discard money.
If you're that bothered by the loss of cartography cash, the 25% fee isn't what you should be worrying about.
It's the loss of the opportunity to get up to PowerPlay rank 5 with Li-Yong Rui and sell to him for a +200% bonus.
Nowadays I sell mostly to my own Carrier, but the 2.3 billion I got from selling to LYR after returning from Beagle Point helped me to buy it.
It's the loss of the opportunity to get up to PowerPlay rank 5 with Li-Yong Rui and sell to him for a +200% bonus.
Nowadays I sell mostly to my own Carrier, but the 2.3 billion I got from selling to LYR after returning from Beagle Point helped me to buy it.
Is there any time requirement 'til one can get G5 perks with Yong-Rui? Can one join the Power, immediately earn 10,000 merits, and get the perks the following Thursday?
If one parks their fleet carrier in a Yong-Rui controlled system and has Rating 5 with Yong-Rui, will they get a boost in credits when selling to their fleet carrier?
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No time-pledged requirement, you just need 10,000 merits by Thursday. I did it by hauling in a Cutter. Of course you have to remember that you still have the data onboard (saving it until you rank-up), so try not to get blown up.
As for parking a Carrier in LYR space... hmm, I don't know. I doubt if Carriers are considered part of the local PP Power's territory.
As for parking a Carrier in LYR space... hmm, I don't know. I doubt if Carriers are considered part of the local PP Power's territory.
give away 1/4 of your game play time.
instant math should make you go 1/4 ??? ouch. no.
give away 15 minutes out of every hour for no reason? no.
even if it was your own carrier...
if you die you lose it all.
if you don't die, what do you get. of that, what did you want?
the only good reason to sell to a carrier is if you are concerned that you might die and lose it all or that someone else might get a first that could have been yours.
if it about credits, nobody cares.
it is also NOT saving anyones time in any way. selling carto data to a carrier is throwing 1/4 of spent time into the trash..
instant math should make you go 1/4 ??? ouch. no.
give away 15 minutes out of every hour for no reason? no.
even if it was your own carrier...
if you die you lose it all.
if you don't die, what do you get. of that, what did you want?
the only good reason to sell to a carrier is if you are concerned that you might die and lose it all or that someone else might get a first that could have been yours.
if it about credits, nobody cares.
it is also NOT saving anyones time in any way. selling carto data to a carrier is throwing 1/4 of spent time into the trash..
Selling to my carrier saves me time, since I can then swap out to a different ship right there instead of flying all the way back to the Bubble/Colonia; it also means that I am carrying less data around at any given time and can comfortably do more risky (read: fun) flying. As you mentioned, credits are pretty meaningless.
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Well for the own Carrier it's only 12.5%, since the other 12.5% goes directly into the Carrier Credit Balance.
And when the nearest System with UC is thousands or even ten thousands of LY away.... 12.5% is nothing.
A hand-trained ELITE NPC Crew alone takes a minimum of 10% income cut for the payroll and offers far less Utility than a Carrier.
Only if you care about credits.
Some people care about credits and exploration rank progression the most, and for them, the carrier fee could be significant. If you're look at Cr / h, then yes, that's -25%. Or if you're using your own carrier, the credits are only -12.5%, although the rank progression malus is still the usual.
Others care about first tags the most - and to them, carriers are a big boon. I'd estimate that no matter where you are in the galaxy, there is a carrier within about 3,000 ly of you. So, if you come across something that you want your tag on ASAP, like a GGG, you can sell the data within an hour. Without carriers, they'd most likely be looking at a long detour to the nearest inhabited system.
The third group would be those who care about new information the most. Carriers are mostly irrelevant to this aspect.
All three are valid though, and having different priorities doesn't make anyone superior to others.