Nothing. They skipped a week so it was applied double the following week.
We need more distance on the FC
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Nothing. They skipped a week so it was applied double the following week.
Yet you title it "We need"
And if FD make it 1000 LY, in a few weeks someone will say "We need 2000 LY range" and "2000 LY would be a lot better for me"
Where should FD draw the line?
If they wanted carriers to roam like bots all over the galaxy they would have implemented like that (plot ranges of 20000 ly as for ships, no tritium depots - carrier using tritium directly from storage)
So its by design - to have the FC under at least some degree of overseeing from their owner, to have a limited jump range, jump timers and no plotting ability.
Carriers do bring a lot of advantages, but also some operational peculiarities
They are also optional / voluntary - if you decide to use a carrier, you have to take into account the good and the bad.
Taking the good as granted and complaining about the bad is bit weird.
Instead do a Pro/Con list and see if a carrier will do it for you.
Exactly what I see FC - some pro's and some con's. I don't understand complaining about upkeep costs and maintenance requirements. Buying FC must be purposely - as personal luxury yaht if someone not know how spend tall pile of credits or working mule to multiplying income treated as investment. But always have plan what I will do after buy my new toy. My FC for example will be personal moving home somewhere in galaxy, I decided to pay for safety and convenience in my exploration role.
After the increase to 4000 LY, of course.
A good compromise would indeed be if we could plot routes for one full tank. After that, manual transfer of new tritium into the tank being required. BUT, transfer directly from FC cargo, without requiring it to load onto a ship first.
A good compromise would be leaving it as it is and fdev being allowed to get on with something else 
Edit: Which, happily, is what is happening
Edit: Which, happily, is what is happening
Oh, i don't know about that. How about 10,000 LY? Its a nice round number.
They should all change to Cobra Mk4 overnight, bloody drain cover menaces.
Ok, but only if it's activated by a "Ludicrous Speed" button next to the Captain's Chair
please fit my nav com with a seventh chevron button ta very much I hear the andromeda galaxy is pretty nice this time of year
Oh I totally get that. I already had these old console accounts just sitting around doing nothing (it's kinda hard going back to 20 fps EBL Elite on PS4 after playing on PC), so I thought of a way to put them to use. The only time I log into them is to refuel my carrier.
I will point out that sometimes Horizons can go as low as $5 (IIRC) on Steam, and that's all you need to get a Remote ReFuel Rat for your carrier. If you have a second PC lying around like I do, you can also use that second account to put a copilot in your multiseat ships!
One difference between us: You have assets ready to use, I haven't these and must buy it for this purpose. Anyway FC is not for chasing around galaxy, for some repositioning flight few times a year flying together is not a great handicap.
Right now I'm using my FC for exploration, so it kinda is for chasing around the galaxy, at least in my case. That said, I tend to be on it when moving it, so the alts aren't necessary, just a nice backup.
Still, to the OP's point, Frontier encourages "strange gameplay" when I have to log in, set my carrier to jump, log out for 30 minutes and play another game while waiting for said jump, rinse and repeat until I finally arrive at my destination. Thankfully once I get to my targeted region, I tend to stay there a long time.
Try my method: set FC jump and route in fast mode to same target system (for me is 8-9 jumps for 500Ly). Next undock and go to quick exploration: FSS only High Metal bodies/WW/ELW and DSS only terraformable. In my case I reach meeting point near same time as my FC (+/- few minutes sometimes), land on FC, make tritium magic if necessary, sell data (earning sometimes weekly upkeep) and repeat jump routine.
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I explore differently than most people - I have my own "private bubble" that I've set out to survey that's not too terribly far from the official bubble. More importantly, it's right off a "major highway" that's well traveled and explored, so the journey there and back (which I've made many times) does not offer much in the way of unexplored systems. And I have no interest in R2R tourism (scanning systems that have already been discovered), so I'd rather order my carrier's next jump and then go back to playing something else (or doing IRL chores) during that 20-30 minutes of wait time.
Actually FDev encourages you to explore the system you just arrived while the carrier prepares for the next jump.
Or the surroundings.
What they dont encourage is racing the carrier around the galaxy. We have ships for that.
The range must be half way to my any desired destination.
During fsd cool down I can fly around and have a look. Not a fan of exploration thingies.
