Respawn and Carriers

[CMDR Jayce MacLeod]

Here is a question for you all, I was pondering this last night. Will carriers be a point of respawn like stations are when you die or not. Imagine this scenario: you are deep into the black with your fleet of ships on your carrier 50,000 light years out (not sure how quick or efficient it would be to move a carrier out that far would be, but let's just say it could be done). You suddenly get killed in most likely some embarrassing way (falling asleep at the HOTAS for example) you're dead and hit the rebuy screen. Now, your carrier is the last "station" you docked at, would you respawn there, or would you only be able to respawn at the last "official" station you visited... 50,000 light years away from your carrier. (Perhaps this is why they have the "schedule" feature of jumping carriers remotely) would your carrier be able to fuel itself or will you have your go all the way back, then back home again with your carrier in tow?

Lots of questions to be answered with these new carriers, and I am quite interested!

 

[Kzak]

I would hazard a guess that fleet carriers will count as a station for purposes of respawning. Whether this requires buying a module for this or if it's included at no cost remains to be seen.

 

[Factabulous]

The Gnosis counts as a respawn.

(cue people saying The Gnosis isn't a carrier, cue others saying it's similar, then someone mentioned that the fuel is Bromellite - thread explodes )

 

[babelfisch]

I would like to have both options.

 

[Factabulous]

I would like to have both options.

And a pony. A cockpit pony. To play with my carrier cat.

 

[ebbrell]

I want to know if docked ships are persistent on a carrier. Does a ship on pad 1 remain on pad 1 even if the CMDR flying it logs off or switches to another ship.

The trailer show pads lowering down before a carrier jumps, it looks like the pads dont twice and move inside the carrier.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

And a pony. A cockpit pony. To play with my carrier cat.

But how many cockpit cats can I store in my carrier cat?

 

[Soron Silin]

You'd have all your money and (I think) all your materials. Even if you die in a short range canyon runner, it shouldn't take too long to buy and engineer a DBX or ASPX and get back to the carrier.

But I see respawn as a major advantage of owning a carrier. It wouldn't be much use for a plain explorer unless it offered respawn and either back-box backup or UC.

 

[Bigmaec]

then someone mentioned that the fuel is Bromellite

Did you hear that too? Interesting.

 

[Factabulous]

But how many cockpit cats can I store in my carrier cat?

From early mockup it look like ... around 20

 

[ebbrell]

I don't mind what the fuel is, as long as we can mine it or buy it.

 

[babelfisch]

But how many cockpit cats can I store in my carrier cat?

301.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

From early mockup it look like ... around 20

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After seeing that, my life will never be quite the same.

 

[Factabulous]

After seeing that, my life will never be quite the same.

From the film My Neighbour Totoro. It's quite the trip

 

[CMDR Jayce MacLeod]

In regards to the fuel, if it is a new resource, I think it would be a great opportunity to have the highest concentration of that resource to be mined be found in asteroid belts. Asteroid belts have never been used very much, where rings have always been better. This would give asteroid belts a real purpose!

 

[babelfisch]

Let's play a game: Every time we reply to a comment on carriers we do it in a different carrier thread.

 

[Bigmaec]

Let's play a game: Every time we reply to a comment on carriers we do it in a different carrier thread.

That's more healthy then a drinking game at least...

 

[Sunyavadin]

Honestly, how much money would Frontier make if they stuck "Cockpit Cats" on the store, just little kittens that stroll around the inside of your cockpit and occasionally climb on your controls?

 

[Factabulous]

In regards to the fuel, if it is a new resource, I think it would be a great opportunity to have the highest concentration of that resource to be mined be found in asteroid belts. Asteroid belts have never been used very much, where rings have always been better. This would give asteroid belts a real purpose!

Not sure - can you get Bromellite from asteroids? I thought it was ring-only

 

[HAMM3R]

Asteroid belts have never been used very much, where rings have always been better. This would give asteroid belts a real purpose!

Belts are people too!

Honestly, how much money would Frontier make if they stuck "Cockpit Cats" on the store, just little kittens that stroll around the inside of your cockpit and occasionally climb on your controls?

Every time you'd enter a station it would climb on the controls and hit boost with its paw.