Will you use the new Zende ferry service?

[Quantis Trap]

While I feel some of the aspects of the Bridging the Gap Interstellar Initiative is interesting, I think the usefulness of ferry service is questionable. If two ferries made a round trip a couple times a day instead of taking a week, I might be more temped to use them. As it stands, I'll probably only use the service in one direction just before the jump then fly back the other direction by myself.

What are your thoughts? Do you feel you will use the ferry service?

Diisclaimers:
1) My not against the ferry idea and, in fact, proposed the idea over two years ago for longer trips like Colonia.
2) Sorry if someone has recently posted a thread just like this. I searched and didn't see it.

 

[Jaggid Edje]

No....I have difficulty with doing anything that is "scheduled" particularly if it is "very limited in terms of when".

I hate having to worry about times and day-of-week at work, I try not to let it be a factor in my play.

 

[Sergio Smegolia]

While I feel some of the aspects of the Bridging the Gap Interstellar Initiative is interesting, I think the usefulness of ferry service is questionable. If two ferries made a round trip a couple times a day instead of taking a week, I might be more temped to use them. As it stands, I'll probably only use the service in one direction just before the jump then fly back the other direction by myself.

What are your thoughts? Do you feel you will use the ferry service?

Diisclaimers:
1) My not against the ferry idea and, in fact, proposed the idea over two years ago for longer trips like Colonia.
2) Sorry if someone has recently posted a thread just like this. I searched and didn't see it.

While I agree with your post I will still use it if I have something else to do in the time while waiting for it, which I usually do. If not I'll simply fly there.

Noobs however don't own ships with silly jump ranges. I still believe this is aimed at them. Beginners update remember.

 

[equex]

I hate having to worry about times and day-of-week at work, I try not to let it be a factor in my play.

This

 

[GraphiteGB]

Zende ferry roll call

Well ... I arrived at the Zende Conduit about 9pm tonight, requested docking, and as I approached my landing pad I got a strange sensation of many commanders already docked and staring out the windows at me. I thought to myself: "would using my docking computer be a bad look?", but then I looked...

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Im not copy and pasting it..

 

[ConfusedRaccoon]

I will not be using the service. It takes ~15 minutes to get out there. I'd rather spend my time sitting in a dark, sometimes upside down, SRV shooting at blue floaty lights. Relogging and then doing it again.

 

[Rat Catcher]

I'll park my alt Cmdr there tonight - take him back out tomorrow some time. I have to go back to scan some more data and may as well get the remaining 2 ship blueprints

I'd already flew out last week and returned yesterday...

 

[Florenus]

At first I thought it would be useless.
I still kind of do. But first of all having it in game doesn't deprive me of anything, and at least it's something new and different in the galaxy.

Also, I'm thinking of taking part in the new Initiative, so I've taken mothballls out of my Python, outfitted it properly with cargo and defences (thus loosing some jump range) and will probably park it there tonight, saving myself some boring jumps that way.

 

[Maymo]

Won’t be using it no.

If the ship moved and you got to witness it perform a visually impressive mega jump while onboard I’d perhaps be up for it.

I know that it’s aimed at noobies, but looking back at my own noob days I was far too occupied with learning to dock/salvaging materials/ranking up and playing with new ships to be concerned with a weekly travel barge.

Time will tell if it’s useful, and everyone plays the game somewhat differently. Aliens are cool so that may suck people in...

 

[Factabulous]

Zende ferry roll call

Well ... I arrived at the Zende Conduit about 9pm tonight, requested docking, and as I approached my landing pad I got a strange sensation of many commanders already docked and staring out the windows at me. I thought to myself: "would using my docking computer be a bad look?", but then I looked...

forums.frontier.co.uk

Im not copy and pasting it..

If there's one thing the old boys like around here it's repeating a thread

 

[Captain Willard]

If there's one thing the old boys like around here it's repeating a thread

Could you repeat that please.

 

[Factabulous]

Could you repeat that please.

Sorry, busy watching the newly resurrected lep thread. And my ears aren't what they were who are all these people!

 

[JonLuis69]

I might try it. Something might happen and if it does I'd like to be there.

 

[Axle Reese]

I'll use it. At least a couple of times. My alt doesn't have a FSD booster yet, so this is a good opportunity to get out there quickly.

 

[gooddoc]

I would have to be in the system on Wednesday evening, (before I was about to log off for the night) knowing that I was going back to the bubble when I was logging in again on Thursday.

It takes me less than 2 hours jumping & using the FSS covering the distance, in my 32LY Krait!!

 

[Vasco Sapien]

No... im already there, it took me 7 minutes to get there.
But the Zende Ferry is for newbies. So im fine with it.

 

[Factabulous]

the LEP thread is back??

It never died, turns out it wasn't even pining for the fjords...

 

[Rob At Work]

Yeah why not, be a giggle. Put toilet paper in the sinks and turn the taps on on the top deck.

 

[Bigmaec]

I regularly travel between Colonia and the Bubble.

I don't need a ferry for 700 LY, I'll do that in two neutron boosts

 

[Bryan K]

Probably not. I already have all the Guardian gadgets I’m interested in, so I see no reason to return to Guardian space.

Now, a ferry to Colonia, on the other hand...