with the billions made from egg asteroids and VO selling my FC can run for 2,250 weeks give or take, or 43 years if i did sweet nothing in all those 43 years... puts it into perspective don't it?
Sell my fleet Catrrier?
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Just out of interest, if you were to sell it / decommission it, how much would you get for it?
I understand. If want to go take out Thargoids I can load up every engineered ship, every Thargoid weapon available, mix and match and with a few friends on Discord comms I'll succeed all because I transferred all that was needed in a Fleet Carrier for the jump. But I didn't go there. I did it the hard way before FCs ever showed up.Firstly OP, running cost/week is irrelevent IMO.
If you've attained enough credits to purchase a Carrier.....you can afford to run one.
If not......why buy one in the first place.
Secondly, by having all your Ships, or at least your main Ships on board your Carrier, you will likely have everything at hand.
I have my 'Conda on board doing Exploring in lesser density regions, with my Carrier as back up for really less dense regions - that's assuming my Carrier doesn't leave me stranded.
It's set up to Mine with 120T capacity while exploring, looking for that Mining 'pay dirt'.
My Cutter, set up with 512T Mining capacity when I find that 'pay dirt' & for Exploring in the denser regions with a lesser jump range.
My Python, is on board for the sellling of the commodities obtained through Mining at best prices possible.
My Krait Phantom, for Exploring planet surfaces.
My Asp is along for the ride - as it's my first 'main' Ship that I utilised in the game before buying my 'Conda.
And I've got my first alt account's Ship on board - in case I need an emergency transfer of Tritium to jump.
So I've got everything that I'm likely to do, with it's own Ship readied while roaming around in the black, without the need to mark a system, return to a Station, transfer the Ship I need, go back to the marked System.
My UC utility negates any of the weekly running costs & is a steady income to my account, while Exploring - that wouldn't be possible pre-Carrier until I dumped it all on the first Staion I came to, maybe months later! - assuming I survived that far (some player's lose Ship's & data......not me though)
I'v got a 20K+ storage capacity to fill while doing a bit of Mining here & there collecting higher value goodies, to be sold to fund my Tritium for the next trip - again a bonus for not having to return to sell my 512T maximum at a reduced market price because of bulk tax.
Main thing though is I'm playing the game.
When Carrier's launched in June, I'd not played in months & was set not to play until Odyssey's release. At first it was 'meh', mainly because of how the restrictions were being impacted on how I wanted to use a Carrier.
As these improved it became more acceptable & I started playing again - just need that Tritium to be tweaked in Mining Rings now
So Carrier's for me is Win/Win.
Purchasing Tritium at low cost, playing with others in Open mode then selling Tritium for profit being my game play is trading the Frontier Devs nerfed that. I had PvP players attack me in Open mode which was totally OK. But the programmers took away a play style where many in Open mode loved to play the game just trading in Tritium. Still it was a lot of fun in Open mode for weeks playing with others. Shame on the Devs shutting us down when players were loving to play with each other.
Regards
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That's Marxist tv for you where the money in you wallet races to the bottom!
Unbundle and enjoy free market TV anywhere you want it! ... like Fleet Carriers ... your ships ... anywhere you want them! See what I did there?
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Having a Carrier is just a new way to play the game.
Though I don't do the 'open' thing, I go in my own little bubble when i load ED (or at least Fleetcomm's bubble), I get you on the Tritium trade issue. Frontier have always seemed to give us a 'cash cow' deliberately or not, only to shut it down some time later.
That effect's the player's more who quickly adapt to these 'cash cow' moments & make a decent living for themselves, while other's bleat using terms like 'exploit' a lot for some unknown reason.
These moments come & go. Get them while they last.....if you want to
If you have 25 billion laying around, why not keep it? You can pretty much forget you even have it whenever you'd like.
or put it on the FC account and leave your pilot about enough to rebuy. feel like in the beginning.
Keep what you have, when you can easily afford it. You'll never know what FD will do to make buying it a gain a nerve-wrecking grind.
Fleet Catrrier you say
I wonder if that's entirely the Fleet Carriers, though - certainly being able to move your fleet around with you will mean having a "home system" is less important.
On the other hand, the return of CGs and other events has probably also given people more reason to move around the bubble too.
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Just make FC's attackable/retreatable. Don't make it easy or super effective (e.g. partial damage to onboard ships), but create an extra overhead that other determined players can instigate for tactical benefit.
And OP, if you don't want to pay for it, don't have one! It's a choice. But it's cheap anyway relative to standard cr/hr activities.
Be nice to be able to rent them out though for sure - just transfer the costs to another CMDR plus some extra tax for them to pay, to make owning one cheaper than renting in the long run.
Hydrogen fuel has some cost in the Commodities markets (between 9 Cr and 157 Cr) and also fuelling from a station has a cost, as do fuel scoops initially.
Tritium is rarer since it is not a stable product of most stars apart from quite young ones.
You could see these issues coming without FCs being actually released. People said "wait and see", but from my perspective FDev only threw another toy in the pram without providing specific dedicated use cases. It almost the same if they add another ship, it results in a slight variation of existing mechanics.
If I remember correctly, say you bought the carrier for 5bn, you get 4bn back? (I think)
Or better yet keep it .. and park in a busy system, where someone just started a thread about there being too many FC's. That'll cheer them up.
I had a toy car box when I was young. Whole thing was stolen by the neighbor kid.... Oh real life, how you suck sometimes.
It's up to you... No-one else can really advise if the FC works for you. All I can say is that I certainly get far more benefit out of mine than it costs to run, so I'm sticking with it. It makes literally every task I usually do in E: D easier.