Missing Fleet Carrier after returning to game from a long hiatus.

[clane121]

I left enough funds on beard covering fees for the carrier to sit idle for the next five years Needless to say it's barely been two since i played last. Anybody else experience this "phenomena"? Any way to recover my losses? Or should I just go buy another one?

CMDR PROTEOUS

 

[SlickPBW]

INARA has a search capability for fc’s.

 

[yianniv]

I left enough funds on beard covering fees for the carrier to sit idle for the next five years Needless to say it's barely been two since i played last. Anybody else experience this "phenomena"? Any way to recover my losses? Or should I just go buy another one?

CMDR PROTEOUS

I think you just lose 5% of the carrier's value, the rest is refunded.

 

[yianniv]

INARA has a search capability for fc’s.

A big hint for a decommissioned carrier would be the missing "Carrier Management" button from the interface. Inara wouldn't help in this case.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

r u booting the old game version?

 

[Dragsham]

If Op had as he said, enough funds for 5 years yet came back after 2 years to find it 'gone', then what's transpired?
Only thing I can think of is he didn't put enough funds into the carriers balance, rather left the bulk of his funds in his main account.?

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

well he did say on "beard"
maybe he shaved by mistake..............

 

[yianniv]

well he he day say on "beard"
maybe he shaved by mistake..............

 

[clane121]

INARA has a search capability for fc’s.

Thank you, I'll check. Had forgotten about INARA

 

[clane121]

r u booting the old game version?

Latest version of ODYSSEY, yes. Thx...

 

[clane121]

If Op had as he said, enough funds for 5 years yet came back after 2 years to find it 'gone', then what's transpired?
Only thing I can think of is he didn't put enough funds into the carriers balance, rather left the bulk of his funds in his main account.?

Had several Billion Credits and left roughly a Billion to funding the Carrier. Thanks for the input.

 

[Fixitman]

If the weekly upkeep allocation is left at default, five years of funds will equate to about a year's worth of upkeep. IIRC, the default is only 20% for upkeep (I changed it to 100% as soon as I got both my carriers). If it was decommissioned, that may be the reason.

I've never tested this, nor have I found a definitive answer on how the allocation system works. Has anyone else done either?

 

[clane121]

If the weekly upkeep allocation is left at default, five years of funds will equate to about a year's worth of upkeep. IIRC, the default is only 20% for upkeep (I changed it to 100% as soon as I got both my carriers). If it was decommissioned, that may be the reason.

I've never tested this, nor have I found a definitive answer on how the allocation system works. Has anyone else done either?

Well we're talking a couple years ago, so the memory is gonna be a touch faulty but as i recall it was 25,000ish weekly for the fees, repeatedly. That was over the course of a year or a year and a half that I have it so I made sure I funded it with plenty of money to cover those fees for a whole hell of a lot longer than I sat, lol. I can't imagine any reason why that fee structure would change whether I was there or not. Unless frontier posted something I didn't see that suggested they would do that. Hard to tell at this point. Thanks for the input.

 

[clane121]

I put in a support ticket last night, so we'll see what comes of it... Thanks for all the insight guys.

 

[Robert Maynard]

Carrier upkeep costs are, at a minimum, 5M Cr. per week for a Carrier with no additional services.

 

[Untilting]

Well we're talking a couple years ago, so the memory is gonna be a touch faulty but as i recall it was 25,000ish weekly for the fees, repeatedly. That was over the course of a year or a year and a half that I have it so I made sure I funded it with plenty of money to cover those fees for a whole hell of a lot longer than I sat, lol. I can't imagine any reason why that fee structure would change whether I was there or not. Unless frontier posted something I didn't see that suggested they would do that. Hard to tell at this point. Thanks for the input.

Had several Billion Credits and left roughly a Billion to funding the Carrier. Thanks for the input.

I presume 25000 is a typo, if the upkeep was 25M a week and you put 1 billion on the carrier, that would only last 40 weeks.

 

[rootsrat]

If the weekly upkeep allocation is left at default, five years of funds will equate to about a year's worth of upkeep. IIRC, the default is only 20% for upkeep (I changed it to 100% as soon as I got both my carriers). If it was decommissioned, that may be the reason.

I've never tested this, nor have I found a definitive answer on how the allocation system works. Has anyone else done either?

This is a valid point. Maybe OP put funds in the carrier, but didn't allocate them to FC upkeep?

 

[GroG79]

This is a valid point. Maybe OP put funds in the carrier, but didn't allocate them to FC upkeep?

You do not need to.unless you have big open buy orders

 

[Fixitman]

You do not need to.unless you have big open buy orders

Considering how difficult it is to see what buy orders you have, that is a possibility.

 

[Tetra Trash]

I recently was away for awhile and had upkeep exceed what was available based on my open buy orders, and it just randomly reduced one of the orders to fulfill its cash upkeep requirements. I'd lean toward the issue here being a higher upkeep than expected. Also reminds me I need to do some funding activities sometime soon