I hope that your interpretation is in error , I read it as One FLEET CARRIER per commander not one transportable ship per commander. With the latter interpenetration there would be no point in having the carrier.
ANNOUNCEMENT Gamescom Reveals - Fleet Carrier Details
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Have another look at the reveal video. Prior to the carrier jumping it appears that all the 'pads' are pulled down but we don't see any type of cover going over the top and the pads are abnormally close together, such that there may be no room in between for the typical hangar space seen in stations or outposts.
Another good example to check is the parallel layout of the pads on the detention megaships.
I wrote that "if". If it has a shipyard, ship transfer will be a thing like in any station that has a shipyard. That's what I meant.
Yeah, I always wondered about that when I saw people referring to the 16 ship threshold. It says pads, not ships. I can see the reasoning, but the fallacy as well.
Doesn't matter. Ships are not physically present in hangers anyway unless being piloted. Once you switch ships the ship you wrere in just despawns.
Ship goes down, ship goes up, ship goes down, ship goes up.
We'll see in December I guess.
Hopefully if they reveal more in a live stream they'll at least turn up the volume so we can hear it...
Has anyone wondered how many Fleet carriers can spawn in a single instance, would be cool to see multiple FC's warp in just outside a station or just in the same area of space 
lol - funny guy ehHas anyone wondered how many Fleet carriers can spawn in a single instance, would be cool to see multiple FC's warp in just outside a station or just in the same area of space
I'm hoping that as it's called a fleet carrier it does exactly what it says on the tin and we can get all our ships on board, that's the only reason i want one. If we can't get all our ships on board(some have too many, myself included) I'd be happy with at least 2 from each size group but if it's only 1 personal ship then I'm out
I highly doubt they would be but even if they were they're not really that difficult to get especially if you started to obtain said rank now there's plenty of time until December
I think the FC's are gonna be ultra expensive, upward of 5 billion and I think they'll be costly to keep the number of carriers out there at a manageable level if carriers are going to be persistent across all modes how the hell would the servers cope if everyone jumped into sol in their carrier the place would be littered with hundreds if not thousands of carriers
Might or might not matter.
It's true that, going by the reveal video footage, they have gone to the trouble to implement a new hanger structure. That would be a curious choice if it does not reflect some functional difference from the ones we're used to. But it could just as well be as simple as them wanting to fit more pads in a smaller space.
However, it seems reasonably clear that FCs are going to offer outfitting services. Unless they are significantly changing the interface, that requires entering the station, which means ships will be able to retract into somewhere.
It's under capacity though, rather than being labelled simply as pad count.
If the limitation is simply cosmetic then capacity doesn't seem like the right word to use.
If you're 1000's lys away from the bubble in your FC and you launch your ship to say go mining and are somehow destroyed will you respawn at rebuy screen on your FC or at the last station you docked at leaving your FC in the back end of nowhere or would your FC somehow respawn with you
after releasing September
I think they mention a cap of a single carrier per system and those, will be depending on the config, public or privates across in all the instances of the same system.
I wish they implement a fee to use them so we can pay the upkeep of the carries based on the fee collected by other players
I wish they implement a fee to use them so we can pay the upkeep of the carries based on the fee collected by other players
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