My carrier is running away .. HELP!
- Thread starter Sethioz
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Happens when spheres of influence cross. Has been reported lots. This can be stations in orbit or on ground, or things like czs.
You mean your years of experience in gaming didn't teach you about this bug?
Comes up every handful of days
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Carrier Bug?
Last few days I haven't been able to approch my Fleet carrier. It just keeps getting further and further away. I'm Moving ships off it to a station. Anyone else having problems like this?
... or just jump your FC somewhere else I guess. never had it myself with FC, famous last words 
This is what happens when you give your carrier's flight crew unflattering nicknames.
As been pointing out, jump the carrier to another body.
It happened to me only one time, but at least in my case, my carrier was rather lazy (it was doing something around 300 m/s or so). So i could eventually catch up and land.
Launching was a different story since the moment the docking clamps unlocked, my ship smashed the carrier pretty bad.
Luckily it was a ship with pretty solid shields so no damage really.
But at a second launch, the ship got entangled in some of the pad/carrier structures and i said enough is enough - so i relogged (back on the carrier) then i jumped it to a different body.
Not gonna catch that up at 250m/s...
It's probably something that will never be fixed because of the way physics is simulated in the game, I mean how do you tell the game you want to drop out into the carrier instance and not the station instance if you are in range of both?
By which one is targeted when you drop out?
It's a fringe case that might not be easy to isolate and fixed.
Just jump your carrier to a different body
That has nothing to do with which instance takes priority, that's a navigation aid only, it's likely the only thing that affects which instance you drop into is which one is closer, all targeting does is tell you where something is.
"I mean how do you tell the game you want to drop out into the carrier instance and not the station instance if you are in range of both?"
"By which one is targeted"
That was the question.
In my case, the carrier kept moving away when an NPC was trying to get cargo from me. The NPC never initiated an interdiction but did quickly jump into the instance where I was getting to my carrier. I waited a few hours, dinner, came back and quickly jumped to my carrier and landed. I did see in my logs that the NPC gave its, usual, "I've come along way" message but I had landed before it instanced in without the carrier moving away.