I'm waiting to hear what happens when you schedule a jump, but at the time of the jump you're out and about puttering around in your DBX two stars over. Ooops.
Fleet carriers single player owned, 500ly jump range
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In a DBX you'll be fine - worry about what happens when you're out in your explora-Eagle and your FC jumps away....
Umm... Alternately, make the neutron jump, schedule the carrier to jump to where you are. No need to suicide. (this is assuming you can't jump to planets you don't have planetary data for).
Hm? An Eagle with an SRV bay (heavy!) fitted can do a bit under 40 ly, more without. Perfectly enough to get through anywhere except the most sparse areas - so, you can pretty much always catch up to your carrier.
Although I expect people will either have the carrier catch up to them (for the services), or jump while they are on board.
My point was that when exploring you can often want to opt for a long range ship like a DBX, or a short range ship for easier sector sweeps - for which I use a suitably short ranged Eagle. I guess without context that wasn't obvious
Or if you prefer exploring in a fully combat fitted FGS or Corvette or whatever, now you can do that. You can forget about setting up your ship for long range. Hell, you don't even need a fuel scoop if you don't want one. You can explore something and if you find a human base in your Asp X, you can go back to the carrier, get your combat ship and go down. Feeling ready for whatever happens. Whether for realistic in-game reasons or just roleplayMy point was that when exploring you can often want to opt for a long range ship like a DBX, or a short range ship for easier sector sweeps - for which I use a suitably short ranged Eagle. I guess without context that wasn't obvious
Not yet. I expect we will have to wait for almost launch time to know.
In b4 the "sh*t, I forgot where I left my carrier" posts...
Now that I think about it, I have another idea in mind given the fact that travelling so far would be a pain in the ***.
IIRC, Obsidian Ant said that we will not be able to fly the carriers. Once in a system, that's where is stays.
EDIT: Of course, a Super Cruise Assist type point and go mechanism for FCs would be great.
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Personally, I'd wait for official word on this. In the meantime, what we do know is that Frontier showed a carrier orbiting a body (MCC 528 1), not the arrival star.
I think two things will be there for sure:
1) The Fleet Carrier will be the respawn point if it was "last docked"
2) At least the Explorer version of the Fleet Carrier will have UC onboard.
If it was otherwise, a Carrier would be a superheavy thing to drag around - pointlessly - for an explorer.
With these two points intact, Carriers open up the galaxy to go where no player has gone before.
I can't imagine it being otherwise.
I don't actually want a UC onboard. It breaks the basic rule that nothing is faster than a ship. I would quite like a black box backup on the carrier so that sudden death didn't result in the loss of survey data.
IMO you should be able to move them albeit very slowly.
The fuel will be tears from salty players.
If that was true we’d have infinite fuel reserves and be able to reach other galaxies. It’s more likely to need Thargoid hearts and blood
My question is, can we go to Open...jam out...then play maint and repair for all the goodguys and the gankers who pass thru? (sinister laugh as I contemplate the profits)
Everything breaks if you can instance a carrier with any other POI.
If it's by itself then it doesn't matter if it's indestrucable and also has weapons. If there is something else there then it's a source of infinite weapons fire.
Drop it into a CZ and just sit in the hanger until everything is dead.
Not going to happen. The carrier is a defensibe point to retreat to, but the game breaks if it can be used to attack.
But stations already move albeit in orbits.