Postby TorTorden » Fri Aug 14, 2020 1:59 pm
Enough for a carrier is at minimum 12 billion.
Less than that really won't be comfortable.
Just filling the gas tank is 40-50 million, on top of upkeep.
Filling the hold with additional fuel would be 10x that.
Skip the ships hangar and outfitting, you as the owner get those for free,
Unless you have an active group of people to play with that will rely on it, even if you do 9 of 10 will still just use stations.
And just those two services adds 11 mil to the weekly upkeep.
Get refuel, rearm, and repair.
The bounty offices are worthless, if you collect bounties from hunting your in the cash in system already, the only thing that service does is take 25% and burn it.
But in all honesty the fc's are pure money sucks pretty much every system in game with anything going on, like a res site or a war will have 20-30 of them parked.
You need limpets?
I bet there is already 5 carriers orbiting your exact ring where you can get them.
I really wish these things weren't persistent.
They are also so utterly lacking in management tools to the point of tragedy.
There is no way to tell if anyone has docked at it, there's is no way to contact these people, or for them to contact you, if they store and ships or modules there is no way for you to know they are there.
Meaning you can jump away with someones ships none the wiser with 10 minutes ingame warning as the only way for anyone to know what's up, and that's only if they are logged in at your carrier.
This alone means no one in their sane mind will log off in a carrier or even use one to store anything.
Even if it is used for mining and you fill up on goodies the hold capacity, even if you switch into a python to sell, you would saturate the market value soon, and you would make less per ton.
You can take your time and ween it out, but that wouldn't be any different than mining without a carrier.
Currently as the game is.
I honestly don't see any reason to get one apart from the fact it exists to get.
I honestly think I'm decomissioning mine soon.
Then again what else are we going to spend the money on?
It's not like they ever introduce any actually usefull ships anymore.
If they gave me the option, I would take three more srv's over the carrier as a feature.
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