Stored ships
- Thread starter BeTeK
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I was thinking about this... I think at the very least we should be able to sell our ships no matter where they are. Maybe with a bit of a loss, but it should be possible.
The possibility of paying for owned ships to be brought to the station of choice (or your current location) was discussed in the DDF. Hopefully this is something we will see as an update over the next few months.
I think this would be great. Be able to move ships to a new location (for a price). I mean, why can't there be a UHaul type service in Elite or even post your own missions to the bulletin board to get something transported by NPC or by other players? I don't know if it would be possible to tow a ship through hyperspace, or if you'd need something like a Lakon to keep it stored internally, but either way, just a brilliant idea.
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I actually hope the 'deliver ship x to station y' feature is one of the next features to be implemented. Currently my ships are 200+LY apart. So i have no way to quickly switch from my trader to my fighter if i feel just like fighting or vice versa. It's a one hour trip just to get a ship that i want to play. Probably 'realistic' within E: D's rules but completely counter-fun from a gameplay point of view. I bet in 2-3 years we'll even see a teleport feature to our stored ships because people will start to hate this situation once they get more and expensive ships.
I'd be quite happy if they just added in a simple 1 seated shuttle that was cheap as chips with a good FSD and nothing else.
You have to fly back to the stored ships location and collect the ship yourself but doing so is risky. I'll say it: Like EVE's pod system.
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Again, like EVE.
Edit: I'm not saying turn this into EVE. Just that EVE has systems in place that answer these questions.
You have to fly back to the stored ships location and collect the ship yourself but doing so is risky. I'll say it: Like EVE's pod system.
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Again, like EVE.
Edit: I'm not saying turn this into EVE. Just that EVE has systems in place that answer these questions.
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I think the consensus view is that an automated ferry service is planned, but FD just didn't have time to get it into the release version of the game. Multiple ship ownership doesn't make much sense otherwise. There will probably be a fee involved, and a time delay for your ferried ship to arrive.
Not likely, I think. Aside from the game's heavy focus on hands-on-stick flying (no Wormholes), it might open up some exploits. For example, bounties are carried by the Commander, not the ship. Commanders teleporting across the Galaxy as they hop between ships, would be an easy way to evade bounty hunters.
It would be nice, as mentioned, to able to post a "job/mission" on the board for an NPC pilot to move your ship to a location of your choosing, but you would have to plan accordingly. For instance: You want your type 9 moved some 100+-lys away, but you do it with escorts(extra cost of course) or you roll the dice on it getting interdicted and loosing it.
Oh dear. It was all going so well until you mentioned eve. Oh deary me.
