Ships Ship transport costs?

virago3 · Jan 30, 2020

Does anyone know the formula used to calculate ship transport costs?, is LY and insurance cost or ship jump distance and total cost or a percentage of all? Is there a off site page to calculate the cost Before arriving at the destination?
Many thanks

Northpin · Jan 30, 2020

Total ship cost and distance seem to be factors.
For Colonia costs are approximate 1.3x

For bubble, who cares?

virago3 · Jan 30, 2020

1.3x what?

Pralines · Jan 30, 2020

virago3 said:
1.3x what?

1.3 x cost of ship

Northpin · Jan 30, 2020

virago3 said:
1.3x what?

Pralines said:
1.3 x cost of ship

Indeed.
FE: transfering to Colonia a 1 billion Cutter will cost you about 1.3 billions.

Pralines · Jan 30, 2020

Northpin said:
For bubble, who cares?

sometimes, i transfer ships just to earn arx

so, to optimize the CR-->ARX conversion, i tried to guess the exact formula, without success...

Factabulous · Jan 30, 2020

After a good 10 minutes looking at actual transfer costs a good approximation is:

Cost = (60 * Distance * Value of Ship) / 1000000

Works for Northpin's case - works for my ARX generating fleets. Probably the constants may need fudging a bit, but close enough for me

virago3 · Jan 30, 2020

So purely financially its better to take the most expensive ship and buy the rest there?

Pralines · Jan 30, 2020

be careful, some modules aren't available in Colonia,
and only 4 engineers so think which blueprint to pin before you leave

virago3 · Jan 31, 2020

Ok, thanks for the info.