2nd Ship Transport services

hedleyn

H
Hi Guys

I remember reading somewhere that you could rent storage for your 2nd ship and that if you were 1000000000 LYs from your stored ship you could pay for a service that delivers it to your current location. Has that been implemented yet? I dont recall seeing it.

Thanks

BEANIE
 

Red Kite

Red Kite
hedleyn said:
Hi Guys

I remember reading somewhere that you could rent storage for your 2nd ship and that if you were 1000000000 LYs from your stored ship you could pay for a service that delivers it to your current location. Has that been implemented yet? I dont recall seeing it.

Thanks

BEANIE
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You don't pay anything to store a ship, it simply has to sit at the station where you buy or if you swap seats then your first ship has to do so. Transport for parked ships is supposed to be coming but its looking unlikely to appear in the release. Without it multiple ship ownership is basically a broken feature. The only work around is to buy a sidewinder, fly to your stored ship then switch and sell the sidey and you can fly to where you have your other ship and get them together. Costs you 10% of the Sidewinder's purchase price each time (3200Cr), assuming an unmodified sidey can make the trip.
 

technophebe

technophebe
I'd love to see this feature, I change my base of operations regularly and it would be nice to have my secondary ship "shipped" to my new location of choice, for a fee of course.
 

NeilF

NeilF
As I posted in another similar thread....


IMHO the solution is:-

1) REMOTE SHIP TRANSPORT

We get the planned mechanic of being able to request a remote ship is shipped to our current location. This is done via a transporter, and takes a realistic amount of game time.

So if it's X hundred light years away, it may welll take a few hours of game time to get the ship to your current dock. So should you request this and leave the game. On your return a few hours later, your other ship will now be available.

An uber nice touch would be to actually be able to see the transporter turn up at the station at arrival time, and for your ship to go into the station.

2) PILOT TRANSPORT

Using the same system, you book your current ship (and you) to be transported to another station. Again this will take real game time. Ideally you'd do this request before leaving the game over night or something.

If you decide to cancel mid-transport, you're left in an appropriate system enroute just as if you'd jumped in, ideally seeing the transporter hyperspacing away.

To aid game mechanics I personally don't think you should be able to book transportation to a station you haven't previously been to. Use a hand-wavium of some form of registration at the station or something.



ps: NPC characters simply flying your ship is an even simpler explanation than using a transporter! But I think it would be cool seeing these transporters arriving at stations delivering and taking ships away.
 
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