Does it take the same TIME as a 500LY jump? What about an in-system jump? If I want to move body-to-body, I have to wait an hour for that?
ANNOUNCEMENT Fleet Carriers - Content Reveal Recap
- Thread starter Stephen Benedetti
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- Upkeep cost vs exploring - Im fine with the price tag here - you do some mining grind like 8 or so hours - have one billion at the end, transfer to carrier and have upkeep for 2+ years real time covered ---> happy exploring
- I like the idea of having no UC onboard, bringing the data back to civilized regions should be part of exploring but...however I would like to see:
- being able to safely store the exploration data in the carrier, so that you can sell it when you return.
- this way upon return you get the money - and upkeep is covered by the data you bring back.
- Advantages for exploring: getting repairs+ refuel whenver you want, switchting ships + loadout any time.
- Restocking SRVs
- And of couse one important point, we still have the beta ahead of us:
- numbers like upkeep cost, time to jump, range, amount of required fuel etc. can easily be adjusted according to feedback they receive.
- Also: Carriers have just been introduced, I can imagine some additions which will make them more worthwile are in the pipeline for the next bigger update.
- What I would like to see:
- definately less spinup + cooldown overall, should scale with jump distance. 15/30 min max spinup, less or no cooldown
- More freedom in Navigation: eg. designate jump destination freely in the orrey system map, not just within bodies.
- Alternatively : A jump to my location button in my cockpit --> Bam - Carrier arrives in my instance
- They also should be able to navigate in real space somewhat.
- additon of smaller carrier classes ( e.g.with: less than 25k unit space , fewer/smaller landing pads), but also smaller price tag and less upkeep
- addition of carrier modules (eg : better FSD, more Cargo etc. ( to make them even more customizable)
- being able to plot a jump route consisting of more than one jump, this way carriers performs succesive jumps until it arrives at destination or fuel runs out
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Can fleet carriers jump into asteroid rings or no?
You can pay Arx to speed up reloading FSD)))
I know, right? Seriously. The one thing that would make it useful to explorers is what they chose to leave out. For us, we might as well save the credits and stop grinding for it now.
Normally I don't take a fatalistic view, but I can't help but feel like my whole community has been left out in the cold by this one design choice.
I agree with almost everything you said, just one thing made me smile... So I can get freaking Galnet news 65,788LY from Sol, but I cannot have a safe transfer of astronomical data that I just collected?
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My guess is, since they said you select a planetary body and the FC will orbit it, that they don’t go into instances other than their own making.
Na plenty of people think its a really good idea and respect the fact the FD tryed to tread carefully.
We saw that fleet carriers can block commanders with notoriety, but how about having it possible to block all commanders who do not possess notoriety.
This would create Fleet carriers that are homes to the biggest scum and villainy in the galaxy, and would help create emergent gameplay opportunities a plenty.
This would create Fleet carriers that are homes to the biggest scum and villainy in the galaxy, and would help create emergent gameplay opportunities a plenty.
That of course must be because of the one way quantum entanglement communication deviceI agree with almost everything you said, just one thing made me smile... So I can freaking Galnet news 65,788LY from Sol, but I cannot have a safe transfer of astronomical data that I just collected?
Grind baby, grind!
But seriously - Depends how common Tritium is. If you can fill a 512 cutter in 20 minutes, it's acceptable. If it is as rare as hen's teeth (LTD or VO low), then it's a pain in the Arx.
I reckon the 1 hour wind up/cool down is too high. 30 minutes each would be more like it.
Anyone with an exploration ship will jump 500Ly in 15 minutes or less, and that's without jumponium.
Not to mention you still have to refuel your carrier after 2 jumps. So taking your carrier anywhere will take ages.
They are obvioulsy designed for wings. It seems to me like they are designed to hang round the bubble more than anything else and thats great really.
Does this include the FC Owner - their own FC will shoot them if they shoot it?
That of course must be because of the one way quantum entanglement communication device
BTW, from there I could also talk "audio" to another commander sitting at Amundsen's Star...
No, seriously I really hoped that it would be obvious that FC had some "much bigger antennas" and could communicate back to the nearest civilized location
This is what awaits trading without NPС))
- Acually what I got from the info you can use the storage space on the carrier to store more Tiritium than what fits the fuel tank by doing cargo transfer.
- Also we do not know that 1t tritium = 1 LY distance. I have not seen this specific info anywhere.
i wait till beta before i complain because i wanna try it out first.
napkin math: 24/2 = 12 jumps * 500 ly = 6000ly/day
Sol => Colonia = 22'001 ly / 6000 = 4 days...
Semotus Beacon - 10.9 that is why, I would not support different cooldown, it's already too good
