Does anyone know why there is no fleet management in the game?
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You must be wrong, i have 32 ships, so 32 Ships, one pilot?!?
What you mean is X beyond the frontier, one ship, one pilot!
Thing is, I like management sims of various sorts, and I like Elite Dangerous. I'll happily play either for hours and hours.
The X series, which is pretty much the closest hybrid of the two in existence, I could never get into. And I think that was because the cockpit of a spaceship gives a terrible interface for running a galactic trade empire, while the empire-building just gets in the way of flying the spaceship.
However, another problem is...
...instances only exist if there's a player there to observe them. So in most systems - especially the ones which get a real player visiting maybe a couple of times a day (or a couple of times a week...) - there's no instance for this NPC to fly through.
So most of the time it would have to be done abstractly - the game rolls some dice, if they come up higher than some threshold based on the NPC's combat rank and outfitting, and the security of the trade route, you lose the ship, otherwise it gets through.
But there's also another problem, which is that large ships are really expensive and small ships are really cheap. This causes balance problems already, but they're somewhat mitigated by you only being in one place at once, so even if a T-9 is far less cost-effective than a Hauler, it's still more effective for you to fly the T-9.
A fleet of cargo-only haulers will cost you ~70,000 credits per ship with a capacity of 26t each.
A T-9 at 790t costs 84 million credits minimum.
So for the price of a basic T-9 you can get 1200 Haulers, with a total capacity of 31200t (about 40 times the T-9)
Trading Ceramic Composites (several other goods are also suitable) you can buy at ~100cr/t in vast bulk and sell in the right place (which there'll be enough of that you can pick a nearby high-security system) at 10,000cr/t so your initial investment for the Hauler fleet and cargo is still under 90 million credits. On a fully successful run, taking maybe 15 minutes, their cargo would sell for 312 million credits. Don't worry about the trips per day limit on any individual ship's crew - just invest that 312 million in buying another 3600 haulers and their cargo and crew, and repeat. You'll probably lose some of them, but they're really cheap to replace and then you don't have to pay the crew.
My auto pilot crashes into the space station when I am sat next to it.... although thinking it through maybe this is the much needed rebalance 2.0 you would not be able to keep up with the rebuys 
Or to ferry a few tons of tritium from the cargo hold into the fuel tank.
Or execute a jump after the cooldown of 5 minutes have passed.
Owner: You will arrive in $system. After that, please wait 5 minutes and initiate a jump to $system.
Pilot: Uhm.... lost me after arriving in $system
Oh, is open getting a bit too empty these days? ...shame...
Thanks, that will keep me giggling all the way to new year.Put a suggestion in, maybe it'll get added
No, simply put. You're barking up the wrong tree. You want to give the npc's something to do and start micro managing everything, go play Eve or the X series of games. Elite was never about that, and never will be
Because it's a passive source of income, and it's not that kind of a game.
Sure would be cool, but it's not really what elite is about. Carriers are the closest thing to some sort of management that we have, where you can set up your own shop.
Sure would be cool, but it's not really what elite is about. Carriers are the closest thing to some sort of management that we have, where you can set up your own shop.
Because this isn't a management sim... You could try Planet Zoo or Jurassic World Evolution.
Except that it’s not anymore already And next year it will be even less.
Whilst it could be fun to earn a small passive income from NPC traders, I doubt FDev will implement it. Elite just isn't that type of game. We need to play the X series for that fix.
But what if she will betray you and take all your assets for herself? You do know that women are devious, especially pretty ones, right?My SLF pilot should be out earning billions for me everyday with the amount of wages I've paid her over the years. She should be running my ED empire for me.