Fleet Carrier FAQ
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Q: Do I need to manually restock my Carrier's Tritium tanks?
A: Yes, it is necessary to manually restock your Carrier's Tritium tanks, as the technology for automated restocking does not exist.
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A: Yes, it is necessary to manually restock your Carrier's Tritium tanks, as the technology for automated restocking does not exist.
During his lunch break, Phil, the ever-resourceful janitor, finds himself perusing old photographs from humanity's early industrial era. As he delves into this visual history, he seeks to uncover methods and strategies used to transport large quantities of bulk ore with efficiency.
Your missing the bit to the right of that picture where a shoveler (now jcb or telehandler) had to manually load the conveyor
O7
And what all that people in my bar do ?Your missing the bit to the right of that picture where a shoveler (now jcb or telehandler) had to manually load the conveyor
O7
They could press the button Most are asleep in my barAnd what all that people in my bar do ?
O7
Yes it can if you have the tritium ready in your hold and not that hard to do as long as you've got enough time every day to oversee the process.
Best case, assuming no server delays, you can make about 3 jumps per hour which means to make a 100 jumps in a week you will need to average 16 - 17 jumps per day which will take you at least 5 to 6 hours. Since each jump doesn't require much work to initiate (less than a minute) you'll still have the rest of your time available to do something else, except that every 8 to 17 jumps (depending on how loaded your carrier is) you'll need to take some time to "refuel" but that also doesn't need to take more than a minute.
Yes it's the boil off. But it's a use case where the cargo is use as a fuel source for the engine because this is usefull.
For that game mechanic with fleet carrier, is just an annoying thing force a cmdr to stay near a fleet carrier for moving it in the black. They can fix that with a button and a substraction and addition between two variable. It's can be a very simple qol improvement. As I understand this, I don't see any problem with existing game mechanic that this small qol improvement could break.
Recently I take a passenger mission with my dolphin and I travel to a tourist beacon. 5000 LY from the bubble. At a moment, I want to move my carrier to join me. And I can't refuel it despite I have 6000 t of tritium in the cargo bay And even if I can travel to it, I need to refuel with the 4t cargo bay of the dolphin because with the passengers, I can't change my ship.
My fleet carrier was totally useless because of these arbitrary limitation.
As I say, it's just a simple improvement, maybe 2 line of code for fix a boring limitation. And I don't see how this little change can be a problem with any gameplay...
I think you will find it's not an arbitrary limitation, I think you will find that FDEV did it on purpose and for a reason!
Maybe they plan to implement an ARX fleet carrier refill pack ?
I do wonder if some sad person could use that to automate their FC.
Everything is 2 lines of code
, i think it would take a lot more than that.The idea was never to have an autonomous 500LY hopping space station.
O7
I don't understand why. In fact this is an autonomous hopping space station. It's just need to have a cmdr on board to transfert fuel from the market to the main tank. And it's just annoying. You can have an another account just doing that. A simple pseudo cmdr with a T9.Everything is 2 lines of code
The idea was never to have an autonomous 500LY hopping space station.
O7
Fdev can change their code and break game mechanics, (like interception on commercial way by npc), as they want, to permit cmdr to travel in supernavigation superfast and sell ships optimised for that. But a simple improvement without any identified consequence on gameplay loop is impossible ?
Presse say me why there is any other reason that is not a really subject for the dev ? (Indeed that for me the most probable reason)
But its not simple and certainly would be game breaking, you want a mobile base you have to have restrictions otherwise the vastness of the galaxy becomes to dumbed down.
Why does everyone want easy mode?
O7
Really ? The fleet carrier is a mobile base. You can refill it with the tritium stock. It's just you need to be docked to doing that. I can understand this limitation if fdev had made the design choice as "you can move the fleet carrier only with the fleet carrier owner on board", but this is not the case. You can remotly move the fleet carrier.
Why, in this case, you can't remotly refill it ? This is inconsistent. Either we can't remotly move it and we can't remotly refill it, either we can remotly move and refill it.
But I agree also with the fact that I can live my commander life with this and the fact that is not the most inconsistent thing in this game.
O7
What would be next? Auto pilot for jumping a ship and scooping? Fdev (and me) don't want automated flying beyond SCA.Really ? The fleet carrier is a mobile base. You can refill it with the tritium stock. It's just you need to be docked to doing that. I can understand this limitation if fdev had made the design choice as "you can move the fleet carrier only with the fleet carrier owner on board", but this is not the case. You can remotly move the fleet carrier.
Why, in this case, you can't remotly refill it ? This is inconsistent. Either we can't remotly move it and we can't remotly refill it, either we can remotly move and refill it.
But I agree also with the fact that I can live my commander life with this and the fact that is not the most inconsistent thing in this game.
O7
O7
OK, remotly refill a fleet carrier with his tritium stock is automated flying .... I don't understand why. I have two hypothesis, a bad understanding due to my poor level in english or you're using a straw man argument.
sorry, but I’m not convinced.
Not a straw in sight, if you can remotely refill the trit tank from the cargo hold you could jump the carrier remotely without being there for huge distances.
Not what was intended.
O7