"Not a valid carrier destination"...

Flint Sky · Dec 19, 2022

After Update 14 Fleet Carriers will not jump within a system. From one system to another, yes. From one system to a planet in another system, no. It used to work well enough, but no more. Bug or "feature"?

Riverside · Dec 19, 2022

Bug:

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The workaround is you try a second time & it should work.

varonica · Dec 19, 2022

Yeah, so far every time I have had it happen I just use the back button to go back to the galaxy map, then re-enter the system map and then it works fine......so try that as a fix for now until they patch it.

howardtay1 · Wednesday at 12:25 PM

I have had the not valid destination happening all the time since 14, so today I cashed my carrier in until this is fixed, too frustrating!

kofeyh · Thursday at 7:43 AM

Make sure you're not trying to target a station, or any other non-planetary object. They are (genuinely) not a valid target because the Carriers appear to be only permitted to instance next to planetary bodies (eg orbit, or barycenter). So if you try to target anything not a stellar body, that can cause it. And it'd be unfortunate if you cashed the carrier for that reason.

varonica · Thursday at 8:43 AM

kofeyh said:
Make sure you're not trying to target a station, or any other non-planetary object. They are (genuinely) not a valid target because the Carriers appear to be only permitted to instance next to planetary bodies (eg orbit, or barycenter). So if you try to target anything not a stellar body, that can cause it. And it'd be unfortunate if you cashed the carrier for that reason.

Yeah, other objects don't have slots available for orbits, although you can target asteroid clusters but I suspect that uses stellar orbital slots available between the bodies anyway.

kofeyh · Thursday at 9:23 AM

varonica said:
Yeah, other objects don't have slots available for orbits, although you can target asteroid clusters but I suspect that uses stellar orbital slots available between the bodies anyway.

Asteroids are weird; but it uses the main-sequence star slots for those, I believe.

It would be nice if it also selected the parent body of a human made object, out of convenience - but alas, it does not. Same error thrown.

Walter2 · Thursday at 11:08 AM

varonica said:
Yeah, other objects don't have slots available for orbits, although you can target asteroid clusters but I suspect that uses stellar orbital slots available between the bodies anyway.

And yet, you can target an installation in development - surface or space - but the plotting seems to default to the planet or nearest large body.