Console Profile Transfers: FAQ and Expected Date

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria

Frode8228

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HeatherG said:
Everything is posted in this News and Announcements. There's are several at the top of the page in that section, 1 from Bruce ( which is this one) and a couple from Sally. Sally had the latest announcement.
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Can you confirm that the latest announcement on carriers is the one at the beginning of this thread?
 

Wildbill336

Wildbill336
what do i do if my steam and xbox console use the same email address? i want to keep my pc commander and transfer my xbox to new pc commander maybe somewhere other then steam. anyone have some suggestions for me to prepare?
 

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria
Wildbill336 said:
what do i do if my steam and xbox console use the same email address? i want to keep my pc commander and transfer my xbox to new pc commander maybe somewhere other then steam. anyone have some suggestions for me to prepare?
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If it's Gmail you can use a suffix, the free account can go through Fdev's launcher.
 

stormyuk

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stormyuk
Felix DiCestria said:
Hmmm.
So they didn't access the console account, however the FC should have been visible across all platforms.🫤
That said they didn't have a carrier to start with so.🤷
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Indeed the carrier won't be 'scrapped' it will just live on with the console account.

Has anyone with a fleet carrier been transferred yet? Any bugs with ships docked there or any other shenanigans?

I am still curious with my entire PS5 fleet being sat on the PS carrier that it all goes over ok, with the fleet carrier staying put.
 

Dylanthalus

Dylanthalus
This is great news. I bought a PC and started playing ED and was very disappointed to not be able to transfer my progress and content from console to PC. Can't wait! :)
 

stormyuk

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stormyuk
I've actually decided to decommission my fleet carrier and re-buy it on PC as if I am paying for it I might as well pay for it on an active account.

Means I can't transfer now for a week. 😬

How long will the transfer window be open?
 

stormyuk

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stormyuk
angusmadmac1 said:
I decommissioned my FC straight after Consolegate. Once/if the transfers happen I can always buy it back on console and then on PC and I can have two 🤣.
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True. 👍 Not sure I'll be using my PS account for Elite if I am honest. I was planning on leaving the carrier there but, there really probably isn't much point having one on PlayStation.
 

angusmadmac1

angusmadmac1
stormyuk said:
True. 👍 Not sure I'll be using my PS account for Elite if I am honest. I was planning on leaving the carrier there but, there really probably isn't much point having one on PlayStation.
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Yeah you lose credits and then once they have gone your modules and ships. I want to keep my console as it's 6 years worth of gaming , not sure when i can get a pc to run EDH v4.0 ( bought series X just for EDO 🤦‍♂️much like I bought betamax 🤣) so will wait out
 

maehara

maehara
So, Fleet Carriers. I plan to continue playing on PS4 and wouldn’t see the need to decommission my PS4 carrier (I’ll buy another one on the PC copy) - is the position that the PS4 carrier will be scrapped regardless, or would it be left in place?
 

angusmadmac1

angusmadmac1
The way I read it was FC aren't copied across . If you sell it your credits get copied across , if you don't sell them you won't see those credits copied across ( willing to be corrected if wrong )
 

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria
maehara said:
So, Fleet Carriers. I plan to continue playing on PS4 and wouldn’t see the need to decommission my PS4 carrier (I’ll buy another one on the PC copy) - is the position that the PS4 carrier will be scrapped regardless, or would it be left in place?
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It sounds like an iffy interpretation by/of a tester who didn't have a carrier and may have gotten the wrong end of the stick.
CMs have always worded it as an if statement depending on whether you have sufficient credits.
I'll be giving the console to my son once transfer is complete so whilst I may not be as active on console as previously I would still be able to make use of my console accounts when he's at school or doing something else.
It makes sense for me to have carriers on both platforms as I use them as a central pool of credits which my commanders can access as required. This is less risky if I restrict access to friends only during transactions which isn't possible cross platform.
 
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stormyuk

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stormyuk
Yeh I was hoping FDev would pick someone with an FC to check how it works if the console account has a carrier. So far not heard but, I wouldn't expect it to be auto scrapped. It will probably just stay there. I have decided I don't want to pay 2 upkeeps considering I doubt the PS account will be used. I could always buy a carrier again on PS should I choose to as the credits will still be there.
 

angusmadmac1

angusmadmac1
Yeah I didn't think it would be me as I'm slightly jaded and dont have a PC yet to check with .. Unless they want to give me a PC so I can check 😉. I'm always willing to help
 

seas76

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The ED game is only present on Xbox and Playstation consoles, as this transfer is to take place in a few days, given the information posted that would be started on the 12th of this month, I was thinking for Xbox platform players, we know that Loja the Xbox is present not only on the console, it is on the PC as well, and with the same console account you can also access it on the PC, wouldn't that be the facilitating process? just check if the CMDR Name already exists and make the change, but the data would already be on the platform itself, today I already do that, I can play the same game on the console and continue on the PC if I want... you will be asked where you want to receive a copy of the ED, if it will be on Frontier itself, on Steam or Epic Games, why not on the Xbox Store? I don't understand why the game exists on the Xbox console and doesn't have the version in the store for use on PC.
 

GraphiteGB

GraphiteGB
AtkinsonCharlie said:
Is there going to be a window that this transfer is available with an end date and if so when will this porting cease to be an option? Thanks.
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They need to confirm start date to give an end date.. 12th was start date if nothing went wrong with testing they have not announced that friday testing went well yet thursday testing meant twitter was able to say yep still on track for monday...
 
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