Newcomer / Intro A question to Fleet Carrier owners

Frags

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I'm about to buy my first FC (and the last one). I'm planning to buy at least refuel/restock/repair/shipyard options.
Mostly I'm planning to use FC to keep mined minerals/metals to sell it for a good price. I'm not planning to travel to Colonia etc. yet.
What else do you do with your FC in the bubble?
 

Maolagin

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When in the bubble, my FC is good for a lot of things!

  • The obvious one, it carries my fleet. Very handy to have all my ships in one place that I can move around as I work in different systems.
  • Also very useful for running large volume cargo for missions or BGS. Beyond around 3-4 T9 loads I find it more efficient to park FC next to the source station, load up, then jump FC next to destination station to unload.
  • Good to have a repository of found items that you don't immediately need. Escape pods, stolen goods for black markets, tech broker commodities for unlocks, for example.
  • Save yourself extremely long SC trips. If I have some errands 100k+ ls from arrival, might queue up a FC jump directly to the destination planet, either before a bathroom break, or while I wrap up another mission or two.

Just a note, if you don't have a group you're playing with, you can save yourself a lot of money by skipping the shipyard module. FC owners can store their ships without a shipyard, so it's only needed if you want to enable other players to store their ships on your FC too.
 

Frags

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Maolagin said:
Just a note, if you don't have a group you're playing with, you can save yourself a lot of money by skipping the shipyard module. FC owners can store their ships without a shipyard, so it's only needed if you want to enable other players to store their ships on your FC too.
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Oh, good to know, thanks. I play solo.
 

Frags

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Another question:
Should I allow other commanders to use my FC (I play solo)? Is there any advantage/disadvantage allowing it or not?
 

CMDR Saigon

CMDR Saigon
Frags said:
Another question:
Should I allow other commanders to use my FC (I play solo)? Is there any advantage/disadvantage allowing it or not?
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I've 99% of the time leave it as allowing everyone to dock & use services except specific squadron missions as you have nothing to lose. If you want to you can add a levy to the services (but I don't) and I, myself, have also benefited magnificently from many CMDRs do the same during my long trip to the black, Colonia etc in my Cobra MK3, Anaconda's! I think of carrier as a community station/respite in uninhabited space in the black!
 

Jumper_

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Frags said:
I'm about to buy my first FC (and the last one). I'm planning to buy at least refuel/restock/repair/shipyard options.
Mostly I'm planning to use FC to keep mined minerals/metals to sell it for a good price. I'm not planning to travel to Colonia etc. yet.
What else do you do with your FC in the bubble?
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refuel/restock/repair: ok, you will need when out there.
shipyard? Not so much, not worth it in my opinion. Do you picture players coming to your FC to buy ships? I don't for mine.
I bought my FC this week, and Im using a high-range taxi for the bubble and as a base of operations.
Other commanders use it to load/unload commodities, its something that I want to try one day (https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteTraders is filled with these FCs).

Should I allow other commanders to use my FC (I play solo)? Is there any advantage/disadvantage allowing it or not?
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I don't see any disadvantage in allowing, it's not like their mass is added to the jump calc making the jumps more expensive.
 
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