Shuttle System?

Tikas

Tikas
Greetings CMDR's,

Looked around the forum and I couldnt find anything on this, so if it has already been discussed, point it out.

I guess everyone has, at a certain stage, been really annoyed by the fact that it is really hard to collect all your ships at your, for instance, home system... I would love to have some kind of shuttle renting system. For instance:

You rent a shuttle at the station for a decent price, say 1k an hour with a 30k underpayment. Its a small, fast (say cobra top speed?) ship with hardly any shields and no fighting capabilitys. It should jump around 18-23 LYs, and should be able to jump around 100-150 ly before refueling. Once at your destenation you turn in the ship, get your underpayment back (minus any repair costs) and voila.

Should be doable right? What do you guys think?

Greets,
Tikas
 
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ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
Aye, something like that or indeed the ability to have ships 'ferried' to you. Which was actually in the DDF.

In the meantime, purchasing a sidewinder and selling it off is the only real solution that doesn't involve playing Farmer, Chicken, Dog with your existing ships.
 
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eastaquoy

eastaquoy
It is called a Sidewinder

Eastaquoy

Sorry too fast for me. Yes use a cheap ship and resell after use
 
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Duckfather

Duckfather
Grab a Hauler. Equip it with cheap D grade kit. Jump to location of your other ship(s). Sell Hauler. Job done :)

I do this all the time and it doesn't end up costing you even near what you quote (10% re-sell value of a 60k Hauler is ~6k credits 'lost'). Do this with a Sidey and it would be even cheaper :)
 

Cmdr-Wotherspoon

Cmdr-Wotherspoon
To be honest, you can buy a hauler, fly to where you want to be and sell the hauler for less than the price you're suggesting.

I actually like having my ships spread out. I have an Eagle, a Vulture, a Sidewinder, a Cobra III, a Diamondback Explorer, an Asp and a couple of Haulers in different locations, all kitted out for different tasks and based in different systems. Part of the fun of the game is being able to travel to different parts of the galaxy and assume different roles when I get there. Unfortunately, Power Play would get in the way of my freedom to roam, so I'm not participating in that.

But it seems there are quite a few people who like the rental and/or paid-for passage in a passenger liner options to let them have all their ships in one hanger. Perhaps one day, but I can't see it being high on the priority list at the moment.
 

Yomamas Fett

Yomamas Fett
Wouldn't be too hard to code; click on shipyard, select ship at other location, select transfer, pay cost, go do a RES while the timer counts down, return to hanger pick up ship.

How hard can that be?

I've travelled 200ly more than once to pick up a ship....it gets old pretty fast.
 

NeilF

NeilF
Tikas said:
Greetings CMDR's,

Looked around the forum and I couldnt find anything on this, so if it has already been discussed, point it out.

I guess everyone has, at a certain stage, been really annoyed by the fact that it is really hard to collect all your ships at your, for instance, home system... I would love to have some kind of shuttle renting system. For instance:

You rent a shuttle at the station for a decent price, say 1k an hour with a 30k underpayment. Its a small, fast (say cobra top speed?) ship with hardly any shields and no fighting capabilitys. It should jump around 18-23 LYs, and should be able to jump around 100-150 ly before refueling. Once at your destenation you turn in the ship, get your underpayment back (minus any repair costs) and voila.

Should be doable right? What do you guys think?

Greets,
Tikas
Click to expand...

We just need to be able to book our ships to be brought to us... Ideally we should also be able to book our current ship (& us) to be taken elsewhere too... - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=71102&p=1188301&viewfull=1#post1188301

^^ From over SIX MONTHS ago and we still don't have the ability.
 
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encrypted

encrypted
... or a passenger service.

"Welcome abroad British Spaceways flight number 1154 to Diso. ... Captain Braben speaking. Estimated time to Diso- 12 jumps. Please fasten your seat belts and please, no alcohol till we leave a station. Thank you and have a pleasant flight."
 
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