Royal Navy buys the aircraft carrier and maintains it, not the captain through money brought in by taxes. With the house situation, people arent restricted to passing over cash to each other rather than buying random stuff and dumping in front of them.
Not a good move Frontier - Fleet Carrier upkeep
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Royal Navy buys the aircraft carrier and maintains it, not the captain through money brought in by taxes. With the house situation, people arent restricted to passing over cash to each other rather than buying random stuff and dumping in front of them.
Tune in next week to find out
All this time waiting for this feature and Fdev manage to lockout a lot of players from the content!
Gotta wonder who makes these decisions as they seem highly detatched from actually playing Elite.
Bottom line for me is I am not credit grinding for this.
Maybe the gold sellers will finally click onto this game!
Gotta wonder who makes these decisions as they seem highly detatched from actually playing Elite.
Bottom line for me is I am not credit grinding for this.
Maybe the gold sellers will finally click onto this game!
I could deal with the price, even if I consider it about twice as much as what I'd call reasonable. But the upkeep idea needs to die, that's just stupid. Considering how many people can't deal with debt in real life, I fully expect at least one poor each month losing their shiny carrier, and lots of bitter, salty tears until Frontier stops hurting people. Alternatively, the game will lose a ton of players and die a slow death. Both options are possible, from my viewpoint.
Yes, exactly. I hope that inactivity results in the carrier getting mothballed, after a certain period of time - essentially frozen, with whatever debt has accumulated needing to be paid off before it can be re-activated.
And I certainly hope this "huge" debt cannot be accumulated just by not logging in. But if it gets mothballed before than can happen, we are okay!
That's true. Now let's tally up all those upkeep costs for every ship you have ever owned, plus costs for docking in every station you ever docked and deduct it from your account. Hopefully you don't fall too far into the negatives, after all you just agreed Frontier should delete all your ships to pay your debts.
Basically, you log out, and after some time the staff begins to fire and lay off people in the crew, until it's a skeleton crew, and then they're gone too. You're just a dormant and quiet ship somewhere in space.
Now, if that means there are scavengers stealing stuff, I'm okay with it, as long as it's relating to proximity of the bubble. For instance, if you have your carrier in some never visited area of the galaxy, there shouldn't be a truckload of scavengers there reducing your carrier to just an empty frame.
Absolutely... if it comes out of your balance without you having to log in, like bills, they just deal with themselves as the money's in the bank, the trouble should be when the pot is empty, then you can slap me about a bit.
Press Release recent news | page 1 of 595 | Game Developer
"Carriers decommissioned and sold for parts" = lore("despawn from game, refund CMDR")FDev Press Release said:
It's incredibly funny that despite being repeatedly told that full details on Fleet Carriers are coming next week, some CMDRs have panicked themselves into thinking that their Fleet Carrier will get wiped along with all 5b Credits
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So, decommissioned then?
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If it was only 5m credits then there'd likely be significantly less in the way of complaint.Press Release recent news | page 1 of 595 | Game Developer
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"Carriers decommissioned and sold for parts" = lore("despawn from game, refund CMDR")
It's incredibly funny that despite being repeatedly told that full details on Fleet Carriers are coming next week, some CMDRs have panicked themselves into thinking that their Fleet Carrier will get wiped along with all 5m Credits
If it was only 5m credits then there'd likely be significantly less in the way of complaint.
I'd complain they were too cheap.
No escape
While that's a now-corrected typo, you know full well that people would be whining without all the information regardlessIf it was only 5m credits then there'd likely be significantly less in the way of complaint.
Robert Maynard
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.... which is why I said "significantly less" rather than "no".While that's a now-corrected typo, you know full well that people would be whining without all the information regardless
"Carriers decommissioned and sold for parts" = lore("despawn from game, refund CMDR")
It's incredibly funny that despite being repeatedly told that full details on Fleet Carriers are coming next week, some CMDRs have panicked themselves into thinking that their Fleet Carrier will get wiped along with all 5m Credits
Exactly - I highly doubt you can just lose your 5 billion instantaneously.
Even if the decommission mechanic is simple, and it's possible to happen during inactivity...we will probably get our credits back.
I just wish that Fdev could confirm that with a simple statement and stop this panic. "If the carrier gets decommissioned you will be refunded the balance of the credit value of the carrier minus the debts (which can only go up to a certain percentage of the value)" - something like that.
I'm currently 1000s of light-years away from civilisation. If I crash land to get back to the bubble will fleet carriers be cheap enough for me to test?
FDev have said full details will come next week.
Here's a question though, if you can transfer your ships to the carrier (not sure if this is a confirmed mechanics yet), what happens to your fleet if the carrier is gone?
