I feel like a lot of commanders are falling for the bait here. I don't mean to be inflammatory but they pitched high and instead of completely rejecting it we are pitching low. I'm seeing more than half of us saying we want the prices reduced. When in reality a 5 billion or more investment in this game should be able to more than pay for itself. I'd take that and a delay over any form of having to login just to keep the damn chain around my ankle running.
How is this supposed to be paying for itself?
In order for that you'd need to put it a special location that drags in visitors.
Visitors that are ok selling you goods below market value, and buying above it.
We are talking about a group here who would normally travel a hundred ly for 1% bump in profit.
Only scenario that comes close would be mining out of the bubble.
But the bubble is far from drained as is.
So why would they accept getting 50% for their payinite?
And if you find such a spot, just having customers means it can't be secret, so within a day there would be about 3000 fleet carriers orbiting the same little rock.
No.
The market feature of this thing is dead.
And anything else wouldn't put a dent in the fuel costs let alone upkeep.
The only value these things have is as a mobile base, where you store ships and slowly move around the bubble.
But upkeep is far too much of a hassle. Making just using stations the clever option.
The rest is as a cheat.
For handing goods or credits around for RMT.
I expect the very week if not the day this goes online we'd have eBay offers of "pay 15$", and you get a few hours window to dock with carrier x, join his squadron and withdraw x cash from it.
I haven't fully tested this since all my squadron mates have quit ages ago.
I have no idea what the design team at FD has been smoking but it's got to be some good stuff.
For the last few years now they have purposely disregarded the core of their own game chasing some MMO concept.
Fleet carriers has one feature.
Carrying a fleet.
This whole rubbish around making them into mobile stations is beyond moronic.
If I spend all the money that we know people, have they can literally make a mobile Jameson's memorial with this.
That's just ridiculous.