Fleet Carriers: Do Stations Profit from Refuel/Rearm/Repair?

[NascentChemist]

Are stations providing maintenance services to players at cost? Or do they already have a mark-up? We don't pay docking fees or any apparent taxes in the commodities market.

How are the base prices for advanced maintenance on carriers calculated? Are they just enough to cover the theoretical cost of purchased fuel/ammunition/repair supplies? Will any of that money go into the Carrier Bank?

I'm worried that player carriers will have to charge a premium for these services to scrape together a meagre profit. The carrier's base prices should be lower than what stations charge. That will allow players to raise prices to market rates to make a small profit.

(Yes, I'm aware that maintenance fees will almost never, ever cover the 10 million credit base upkeep costs.)

 

[Tsunamicom]

Refuel and repair is effectively a universally consistent price. The FC owner will be able to provide the service of repair/refuel at cost, or with a % markup (where the markup amt goes to the FC). Ex: If it costs 100 credits to refuel normally, and a FC sets a 10% tariff, then the player pays 110 credits, and 10 credits go to the FC owner as profit.

 

[NascentChemist]

Refuel and repair is effectively a universally consistent price. The FC owner will be able to provide the service of repair/refuel at cost, or with a % markup (where the markup amt goes to the FC). Ex: If it costs 100 credits to refuel normally, and a FC sets a 10% tariff, then the player pays 110 credits, and 10 credits go to the FC owner as profit.

That's certainly plausible. It is odd that these services are universally the same price. But why does Jameson Memorial and Hutton Orbital have the same rates? Everything at the latter should cost a premium due to its remoteness.

I'm just grasping at straws to give fleet carrier owners some way of making money.

 

[Tsunamicom]

That's certainly plausible. It is odd that these services are universally the same price. But why does Jameson Memorial and Hutton Orbital have the same rates? Everything at the latter should cost a premium due to its remoteness.

I'm just grasping at straws to give fleet carrier owners some way of making money.

I would imagine repair and refuel taxing would not actually provide a decent sum of cash unless it was in a high traffic area, and there was some sort of convenience factor and/or ignorance factor involved. Ex: When I'm repairing or refueling these days, I don't even pay attention to the price. I just do it by default. I think a lot of players are this way. Even at 100% tariff, the costs are probably so negligible for even large size ships that the pilot wouldn't even care or notice.

 

[Bigmaec]

I would imagine repair and refuel taxing would not actually provide a decent sum of cash unless it was in a high traffic area, and there was some sort of convenience factor and/or ignorance factor involved. Ex: When I'm repairing or refueling these days, I don't even pay attention to the price. I just do it by default. I think a lot of players are this way. Even at 100% tariff, the costs are probably so negligible for even large size ships that the pilot wouldn't even care or notice.

This.