No, they're entirely separate. You can transfer your cash assets but nothing else goes with it, i.e. you lose your ranks and engineering progression along with everything else, as your original commander is deleted when the assets are transferred.
Thank you for help. I was just worried that if I could start on PC with the same frontier account that is linked to my Xbox account that I would lose everything on my Xbox CMDR.My fault, I thought you were asking to transfer. Yeah just fire up Elite on PC, create a commander and you're good to go
They have different logins as far as I know. When you log in to a Frontier service, you use the Xbox authentication, but on PC you use email and password. I have a PC commander and an Xbox commander and I didn't have any issues
I have two accounts and have the same name as well. With a Fleet Carrier you can easily share the moneys...
I have two accounts with the same name as well. No issues for over a year from having the same name. I have no idea how that impacts tagging discoveries. I initially thought to transfer assests but now looking back it would have been a terrible idea.
The only way I would do that is if the xbox stopped getting updates…so we shall see what happens with future content.
One thing I will share…
My Fleet Carrier was by way of my Xbox account.
I recently decommissioned it but had my PC ship on it because that made sense to me.
Interesting enough now over a month later..possibly due to being on Odyssey on the PC, the Fleet Carrier is still there.
I cannot land on it but I can fly to it…it talks just like it did before and I can select it. No other actions exist but I do hope this doesn’t become an issue if I were to buy one on PC.
The only way I would do that is if the xbox stopped getting updates…so we shall see what happens with future content.
One thing I will share…
My Fleet Carrier was by way of my Xbox account.
I recently decommissioned it but had my PC ship on it because that made sense to me.
Interesting enough now over a month later..possibly due to being on Odyssey on the PC, the Fleet Carrier is still there.
I cannot land on it but I can fly to it…it talks just like it did before and I can select it. No other actions exist but I do hope this doesn’t become an issue if I were to buy one on PC.
stormyuk
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This is interesting as I was considering potentially doing the same and decommissioning my PS5 Carrier and getting one on the PC. I suppose I could keep two as the upkeep isn't that big of a deal.
I do still consider my PS5 my main, it's triple Elite and has all the engineering done I could possibly want.
My PC account is very bare bones in comparison and I am not even sure I want to put the same level of engineering effort in I did on the PS5. It makes NPCs much more of a challenge.
My A-rated unengineered PC Krait Phantom made the mistake of idling in a Nav Beacon when a Deadly Anaconda was hunting me due to a mission. The Krait exploded in about 3 seconds I didn't have time to do anything. That wouldn't have happened on the PS5 as it would have been heavily engineered and I'd have just destroyed the Anaconda. I forgot how crappy A rated ships are defensively.
To start on PC you need to buy another ED account (game).
My advice would be to use a different email address for that account - easier to keep things separated (issue tracker logins, inara logins, etc)
I already own the game for pc. I got it when it was free on epic games store. It’s just that I was wondering if it was safe to use the same account.
I already have done now, started on pc with same frontier account and got no issues. I still consider my Xbox account my main one as that’s the one I have pretty much everything unlocked.