fleet carriers

The way I see it, Fleet Carriers, like other game features, can't decide whether they're intended for individual players or player groups. For a solo player, FCs are expensive*, they're too big, they're cumbersome, they're a pain to refuel if one doesn't like mining, etc. 16 pads is just way...

Colonization-Monetized (TM): Colonization Module with Colonization agent for Fleet Carrier (enables FC as colonization point), 50k ARX (2k ARX for ED lifetime-backers) re-name of procedural generated star-system (exclude custom by dev/other-player), 25k ARX per star-system (1k ARX for ED...

Problem 1) Sometimes you see a system where the nearest Frontline Solutions to a war location is thousands of light seconds away, total buzzkill. You'll spend more time flying than fighting, unless you park your own ship next to the fight and do log off - log in shenanigans. Problem 2) Fleet...

Here's an idea for update 15 or 16, however long the war is supposed to last. Suggestion: Allow Fleet Carrier owners to participate in AX with their carrier by parking them in the CZ or station/planetary battlezone. This will give AX pilots the following advantages. Covering fire that actually...

Following my discovery that my entire meager stock of 100 various items was sold out in less than a day, and thus there apparently is a high demand for Odyssey materials, I figured that we could all use a dedicated space on the Forums to advertise what we have available in our Fleet Carrier's...

At the moment, the maximum number of squadron pilots is 500 people, and if the squadron does not remain in one system, then it moves either in an organized convoy of narrowly focused ships, or the entire fleet on the fleet carrier at once. However, the control of the fleet carrier is tied to one...

There are a few suggestions that will never be introduced into the game, but I'll leave them here. Make an auction and market for used fleet carriers: If you run out of funds for servicing a fleet carrier, then it is not debited but put up for auction. This gives people the opportunity to buy a...

I don't recall if this was present in Horizons or not, but I've noticed that my bridge crew, Dara Whitfield-Vance, looks different in her weekly expense report than she does in the services section and I was wondering if this was something others had experienced as well? I do hope the correct...

Buying tritium at quantity at a station with large pads (if you can find one) and making trip after trip after trip to fuel an FC is tedious enough, but I can only use half of what I put aboard my ship or I strand myself until I can spend dozens of hours mining tritium out in the black. Why not...

I recently bought a fleet carrier and started the process of stocking tritium and generating capital to finance the upkeep on it, and I've been reading other post about how tedious it is to obtain tritium, especially outside the bubble. I can mine 100t, maybe 200t per hour if I'm lucky for a...

The actual mechanics of decommissioning a fleet carrier are mysterious and opaque, so the Fleet Carrier Owners Club spent some time, effort and about 700 million credits putting it to the test. (We got 500 million back eventually.) There are several conflicting sources of information about the...

Hi, I'm curious about that, what are opening fire conditions of Fleet Carriers? All options below provided that they are in the "fire zone"; -Ships which have "wanted" status? -Ships which are opening fire to them (FC)? -Ships which are opening fire to "me"? ( Supreme owner :) ) If there is no...

I believe squadrons should have the ability to pool credits together to purchase a fleet carrier. This feature would be excellent for small private squadrons who play together. Fleet carriers were a feature my Squadron which consists of only 6 people were excited for as we all frequently fly...

I've participated in the last few CGs after a bit of a hiatus in Elite, and boy are they unappealing now. I used to love trying to see how high I can get on the leaderboards for contributions, and its a great way to grind out additional rank and credits while I do it, but honestly Fleet Carriers...

Shortly after I got my fleet carrier this summer, I took it out into a sector of unexplored space that I had discovered some time ago on PS4, a place I wanted to make my "home away from home". It's not that far away, under 10KLY from Sol, so while my little sector remained undiscovered, there...

For the love of all that's holy, fix this system map, Frontier! Yes, I know this has been brought up a thousand times, but obviously FDev has ignored the communuty, so it's my turn. Here is just one example of what's wrong with the system map and why: Notice that Meredith City is only 361 LS...

I want to thank the fleet carrier owners who parked just a few million meters from the CGs and enabled their docking, repair, and rearm services. As a pilot of a missile-shooting shieldless Dolphin, I need lots of repairs and rearms, and it's nice having these services just seconds away. O7 to...

So I planned a jump ... cancelled it and found a moon closer to my planned destination ... happy days Carrier is getting ready to jump ... and then at 8 mins or so I get an audio alert saying "jump cancelled at owner's request" ... yet the countdown is still counting Is this another bug? or...

1: Allowing us to actually schedule jumps far in advance of the jump ( maybe like a max of 48 hours kind of thing) 2: allowing carrier routes where the carrier will give you a report on how long the route will take and how much fuel it would take, automatically jumping back to back to back...

...I run into a ton of fleet carriers in and around the Bubble, Colonia, and even nebula. But when I wake up and have a cup of coffee in the bridge of my own fleet carrier, which is stationed in my own private bubble out in the literal middle of nowhere, and I see two other fleet carriers on the...

We were worried about an invasion of Thargoids destroying the Bubble, forcing humanity to flee into deep space. We were wrong. A much more powerful, undefeatable enemy has invaded, shutting down entire systems, upsetting economic and political stability, rendering all civilized space (including...

With all the fleet carriers cluttering up the space lanes and parking spots outside the local planets/stations/facilities....isn't it about time the local authorities (FDev) placed parking permit restrictions on prime spots. A bit like premium spaces outside of shopping malls/centres at the high...

If you hate my "diary" posts and still clicked on this thread, you only have yourself to blame :p So I bought a fleet carrier (thank you everyone who assisted me in this endeavor), and I'm having mixed feelings about it already. As I moved all my stuff from ShinDez to my personal fleet carrier...

Yes carriers are a just 'cargo' vessels at the moment ✈ FDEV now we need the 'Airline' schedule page. Information is key here, and there seems to be an issue with providing tools to the CMDR's in Elite to plan and operate their activities. The issue is not spool up or spool down or how many...

Fleet Carrier Commodities Market Management. The Fleet Carrier Commodities Market is one of the most promising aspects and would great benefit from some conceptual changes. Also a number of quality of life enhancements. Here are some thoughts for possible adjustments to the Carrier Commodities...

Hi CMDR's! I'd like to introduce to you all "The Broken Limpet Initiative" and invite you all to join our player group centred around Elite dangerous and the Fleet Carrier expansion! 1.) What are we? We are a community driven discord that has been set up centred around all things Elite but...

As we all know, Fleet Carriers have been added fairly recently to the game, but outside of cargo transfer/ DSSA/ roleplay purposes, they have been a bit lackluster. This essay thread is aimed at changing that. Chapter 1: Upkeep The upkeep of a fleet carrier has been a topic of dispute since...

I don't know if I'll ever be able to afford a fleet carrier; I hate grinding and the nerfs are coming! Thing is, I don't need to own a fleet carrier to do what I want. I would happily rent a FC from another player, but this means that player would need to actually "give" me their carrier for a...

Pirates' moral code prevents them from putting the blood covered isotope into their piracy fleet carrier's fuel depot. Completely absurd. If I can set my carrier's role to PIRACY, and buy bad boy markets in it, trading stolen sht left and right, I can't bring myself to refuel my hunk of...

So when I read about how carriers were persistent across all game platforms, it gave me an idea I couldn't wait to try. A couple of good friends have ED on Xbox, while I'm on PC. I contacted them, and they were eager to help test my theory. As it happened, they had been wanting to unlock...

Allow players to sell engineered modules to stations or to other players via fleet carriers for high prices. If someone wants an engineered module but doesn't want to collect materials and engineer it themselves, they can go to someone's carrier and buy the module ready there. It's a win-win...

With prices dropping daily on LTD and Painite what other options are there for pilots to gain the 8b-12b necessary to buy and upkeep fleet carriers coming out in june

I think a great idea to add new gameplay and to help make carriers more or less self-sufficient is giving the owner the ability to arrange contracts with NPC companies such as Mastopolos Mining - they will allocate a certain amount of the fleet carrier cargo hold, say, 3,000 units to the company...

After introduction of squadrons the player interactions got a new level. It seems natural when it comes to the next big thing in this game, the Fleet Carriers. But there are som squadrons that are really big, and it is just natural. A lot of players working together for common goals have new...

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...

First, let me say I am a PS4 player with no access to the beta and therefore, the data provided here is what I have relied on from YouTubers who have had access to the beta. Let us look at the perceived issues from the Elite Dangerous community so far: The initial purchase price of a fleet...

For the upkeep costs to be met on a fleet carrier. Not pay to win but, pay to maintain. Flimley

The Panther Clipper needs to be a truly big ship, too. It absolutely should not fit in the mailslot or a large pad. It should take a minimum 2 extra crew or 1 extra player to fly it, and it should only be landable at large surface cities, capital ship docks, and fleet carriers (frontier would...

I'm amazed at how few of the existing game play mechanics are used by the fleet carriers. Fleet carriers could make use of existing game play loops that are already familiar to players. I believe the following mechanics would significantly enhance the capabilities of the carriers and make them...

Fleet Carriers seem to come with quite a few benefit as well as close-to-crippling costs. This is especially the case for explorers that will have to seriously top up the onboard credit account to be able to take them anywhere for prolonged periods of time. One solution often suggested is to...