ANNOUNCEMENT Fleet Carriers - Content Reveal Recap
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That would be awesome to make them earn the credits to show and test stuff they make.
Imagine job requirement: We can only hire testers that have at least 7 bln credits so they can test FC.
Also if You fly without rebuy and lose Your ship You lose Your job, because You cannot test the game anymore.
Only Senior members can test and develop ships like Cutter and Vette because only they have high enough rank.
That could be job requirement for mid level QA.
Also, there is few percent discount for FC if You backed the game on kickstarter, so to test that feature they can only use people that crowdfunded the game 6 years ago. Maybe it would be problematic to hire anyone, but at least they would be sure that their employes cared for the game for long time.
Brilliant idea!
Seems super legit.
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More likely it was a test account set up specifically for the stream - probably on some dev server somewhere. I doubt they'd use their own personal accounts (if they have one
) on a live stream.I will leave this here for redirection purposes.
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My Fleet Carrier experience
First: Yamiks perfectly sums up my opinions on the costs associated with this. Not the initial investment so much, because that's not terribly unreasonable. But everything else that's wrong with it. That said: I figured I would just park this here. Anything I feel is negative I will mark in...
I see your point. I hadn't considered that angle and well I guess I was considering you could cheat a little. And have took like your guys are doing stuff but its actually all off screen and they just gain stuff at a certain rate and then return it. Maybe say a few dozen tonnes an hour it's no less hanky than anything elite already does.
I guess I'm just trying to think how this could work cause I'm having something of a crisis with elite that fleet carriers and an observation about them made me realise I have just poured days of my life into something meaningless....
I want fleet carriers to work....but I suspect they will not.
It would be better if they would send an alert to the system or neighboring systems in the chat that the ship "name" is sent
Why not free the imperial slaves, give them work for food, and travel to outer space. Unfortunately, we have no such choice. Rent, it’s strange because I couldn’t get into a company where they would give me a ship and modules for it, work in security or on the same FC ...
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more precisely 145 million a week
more precisely 145 million a week
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It seems to me that Frontier does not like Explorers , so what was the point of making a vast game with 400 Billion stars......And you don't do anything with them. might as well have kept the Bubble and that's it.
Maxed out carrier upkeep is...
You have simply GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?!?! I am required to buy the most expensive module offered to use the thing to carry my ships. Yes.
The year is 52 weeks. That is, we have an annual total FC == 7.6 billion.
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500 tons = 500 light, hold 25,000 tons, i.e. if you score it is 50 jumps for a total of 25,000 lightP.S.Maxed out carrier upkeep is...
You have simply GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?!?! I am required to buy the most expensive module offered to use the thing to carry my ships. Yes.
The year is 52 weeks. That is, we have an annual total FC == 7.6 billion.
but this is without any modules at all
without repair
in general, if I have it now, mine is able to jump to 13-15000 St.
But even if so then 100 hours of outsourcing))) 100 hours of waiting CARL !!
1 jump in 1 real day ...
What are you talking about? 1 jump 1 hour waiting before and after
Not if you only get 2hr to play aday.
Movable outposts for infrequent travel to the right place, not flight aids.
For example, he sat down for the game, aimed the FC, flew the ships, jumped, got out of the game, went to bed.
good afternoon
Thank you very much for the update. I hope the carriers will get even more functionality in the New Era. Although now it is a solid innovation.
I'm not sure I write where I need to, but ...
1. The carrier price is fair.
2. The price of maintenance is insane. I think 3kk for basic services and from 50k to 100k for each additional would be nice.
3. It is highly desirable that after the death, the pilot reprimanded in his "carrier".
4. It is a good idea to place the “cartography” service on a medium.
5. Cooldown should be reduced by 10 minutes repair + 20 minutes preparation for the jump.
6. It may be worthwhile to reduce fuel consumption per jump and the cost of the jump itself.
I am sure that many have already written similar texts.
I just want to say that my opinion is the same as theirs.
Thank you for your attention and your work.
Thank you very much for the update. I hope the carriers will get even more functionality in the New Era. Although now it is a solid innovation.
I'm not sure I write where I need to, but ...
1. The carrier price is fair.
2. The price of maintenance is insane. I think 3kk for basic services and from 50k to 100k for each additional would be nice.
3. It is highly desirable that after the death, the pilot reprimanded in his "carrier".
4. It is a good idea to place the “cartography” service on a medium.
5. Cooldown should be reduced by 10 minutes repair + 20 minutes preparation for the jump.
6. It may be worthwhile to reduce fuel consumption per jump and the cost of the jump itself.
I am sure that many have already written similar texts.
I just want to say that my opinion is the same as theirs.
Thank you for your attention and your work.
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You think they have time to grind? Maybe that's why FC are so empty. They better work on FC.More likely it was a test account set up specifically for the stream - probably on some dev server somewhere. I doubt they'd use their own personal accounts (if they have one
One thing it was taken out from the original concept is that out Fleet Carrier looks would reflect the services installed in it and this should be restored.
I'd still like to see parts of the previous support vessels added as a "segment" on the Carrier and the station-like ring if all services are installed so it would reflect the amount of crew members needed to operate the damn thing.
I'd still like to see parts of the previous support vessels added as a "segment" on the Carrier and the station-like ring if all services are installed so it would reflect the amount of crew members needed to operate the damn thing.
having listened to the Lave radio interview, one thing that strikes me is that the feature set that we have with Fleet carriers is a function of what they had time and money for. As someone who regularly works on IT projects, I fully understand the frustration with having to balance a launch window and also include functionality.
It sounds like that they wanted to do lots but eventually had to to cap the development so that they could get something out of the door that people could test (and use) to meet their summer 2020 commitment.
It also sounded like some of the ‘missing’ features were either close to being ready but had to be dropped at the last minute because they weren’t working properly or were subject to large arguments about whether they should be included. It felt that a lot of the beta feedback would be used to justify various positions within Frontier about the inclusion / exclusion / price point or potential use of different aspects.
For example, the omission of Universal Cartographics appeared to be touching on an already had argument. Whether it is close to being included or was the subject of an early cull will only come out in beta 2 but frontier did appear to be referencing internal discussions.
Here’s hoping that the changes most people want will make it by either beta 2 or the final build
It sounds like that they wanted to do lots but eventually had to to cap the development so that they could get something out of the door that people could test (and use) to meet their summer 2020 commitment.
It also sounded like some of the ‘missing’ features were either close to being ready but had to be dropped at the last minute because they weren’t working properly or were subject to large arguments about whether they should be included. It felt that a lot of the beta feedback would be used to justify various positions within Frontier about the inclusion / exclusion / price point or potential use of different aspects.
For example, the omission of Universal Cartographics appeared to be touching on an already had argument. Whether it is close to being included or was the subject of an early cull will only come out in beta 2 but frontier did appear to be referencing internal discussions.
Here’s hoping that the changes most people want will make it by either beta 2 or the final build
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