How do Fleet Carriers work?

Fleet Carrier owners must pay towards the upkeep of the carrier. This costs 5 million credits and must be paid weekly.

Players must go to a station with a Brewer Corporation Carriers contact. They can purchase the carrier from the contact.

These stations will also include a Carrier Dry Dock bodysite, where players can choose the design of the carrier.
Carriers can only be purchased at the following locations:

• Colonia – Jaques Station
• Ehlanda – Clark Port
• Agartha – Enoch Port
• Panoi – Garan Hub
• CD-47 990 – Jackson Ring
• Lan Tzak – Jacobi Platform
• Namnetes – Jolliet Enterprise
• Kruger 60 – Kepler Gateway
• Skeggiko O – Kuo Terminal
• Balante – Laplace Ring
• Alcor – Macdonald Settlement
• Kakmbutan – Macgregor Orbital
• Diso - Shifnalport

Players can run services, just like a starport. This can include:

• Commodities Market
• Black Market
• Shipyard
• Outfitting
• Repair, Refuel and Rearm
• Hand in Exploration Data, (this can be done immediately, without the need of moving 20 light-years away first).

Players can also redeem bonds via a Redemption Office contact.
They will also have the opportunity to store their own ships and modules on-board,
Players can also transfer cargo directly from their ship to the carrier, or into storage.

To select a destination, the player can select a target from the Galaxy Map, although carriers cannot jump to Permit Locked Systems.

Fleet Carriers have a maximum of 500LY jump range.

A jump can be cancelled until the final 5 minutes; when the jump is locked in.

There is also a 5-minute cooldown once the jump is completed.

In order to activate a jump, players must fuel their carrier with a new commodity called Tritium.

All Fleet Carrier functions can be controlled through the Carrier Management screen. This screen displays the following options:

Summary - This screen displays a summary of the following:

• Carrier's item and service capacity
• Available services
• Security Rating - Including local system power and relationship with power
• Carrier Administration availability

Navigation - Includes navigation information for the carrier, including:

• Current Location
• Scheduled Destination
• Estimated Departure Time
• Landing Pad Lockdown timer
• Tritium reserves
• Jump capability

Budget - The financial state of the carrier:

• Carrier Balance
  - Commodities Trading
  - Secure Warehouse
  - Weekly Upkeep Allocation - Credits allocated to pay off weekly carrier costs
  - Available - Remaining funds which are not allocated anywhere

• Weekly Upkeep Allocation
  - Percentage of Carrier Balance allocated to funding weekly activities
• Weekly Upkeep
  - Core Costs - Cost of Fleet Carrier upkeep
  - Optional Costs - costs of optional services
  - Number of Jumps - costs increase with each jump
• Service Tariff
  - Additional charge on certain services
• Fleet Carrier Banking
  - Add/Withdraw funds from the carrier budget

Commodity Trading - A summary of the commodities market

• Total Inventory Value - Value of all commodities stocked on the carrier
• Number of Commodity Types - Number of commodities traded in the market
• Capacity Allocation - Amount of carrier space dedicated to commodities
• All-Time Trade Profit - All time profit from the carrier
• Profit Trends - Profit information over the previous weeks
• Manage Market - Manage, Purchase and Sell orders

Carrier Crew - Hiring, Enabling, and Disabling carrier services

• Players can change the avatar of the contacts

Secure Trading - Displays a summary of Stolen Goods' value

• Total Stolen Goods Value - Total value of stolen goods on the carrier
• Number of Commodity Types - Number of commodities traded in the market
• Capacity Allocation - Amount of carrier space dedicated to stolen goods
• Carrier Security Rating - Security rating with a local superpower
• Secure Trading Sales Trend - sale trends for stolen goods over previous weeks
• Manage Secure Warehouse - Manage purchases and sell orders

Shipyard Stock

• Manage ship stock in the shipyard

Outfitting Stock

• Manage module stock in Outfitting

Livery - Same functions as a standard ship livery, although applying items behaves differently

• Tints, Nameplates, Engine Colours, ATC and Holo-Markers update as soon as they are changed
• Layouts change at the next instance change
• Carrier ID cannot be changed

Settings

• Docking Access - Who is allowed to dock at the carrier, players who are already docked will not be kicked off.
• Notorious Commander Access - whether CMDRs who are considered notorious will be allowed to dock
• Set Current Activity - sets the title image on Carrier services
• Decommission Fleet Carrier

There are 3 core services immediately available upon the purchase of a carrier. These services are always active and cannot be disabled or removed:

• Bridge Crew - No associated functionality
• Tritium Depot - This allows players to donate Tritium fuel at their leisure.
• Commodities Market -
  - Carrier owners can purchase commodities from players.
  - They cannot purchase Powerplay or Rare Commodities.
  - Carrier owners can set the price and the maximum number of units the carrier will purchase.
  - If players attempt to sell goods to a complete order, or the purchase price of the goods changes during the sale, error messages will be displayed.
  - Owners can also sell commodities to players. They do this by transferring items to the carrier to act as stock.
  - Owners can set the price and minimum remaining stock of the commodity.
  - Error messages are displayed if the player attempts to purchase items that have been bought already or the price of the items changes during the sale.

There are also 10 optional services available:

• Repair Crews
• Refuelling Station
• Armoury
• Redemption Office
• Shipyard
• Outfitting
• Secure Warehouse (Black Market Warehouse)

In order to use these optional services, they must first be activated in stations, within systems with Carrier Authority.
A system with Carrier Authority follows these guidelines:

• Is not Permit Locked
• Is not classed as an Anarchy system
• Has a population between 22m and 10b
• Has a tech level above 100
• Has a development level above 75
• Has a standard of living above 60
• Has a wealth above 70

A station that can activate services must follow these guidelines:

• Must be a starport
• Has either a high-tech and/or industrial economy type
• Isn't controlled by a criminal or anarchist faction

A Carrier Service will be turned off if the station is damaged, under repair or put under lock-down.

The Security section of the Fleet Carrier covers how many System Authority vessels will attend the carrier when a crime is committed.
Fleet Carriers carry a Security rating, which can decrease if there are more crimes committed in the carrier's vicinity.
A high-security rating means that fewer authority vessels will attend the ship.
A lower rating means that more authority vessels will attend.
If there are no crimes after seven days, then the security rating can go back up to 100%.

This can be down in the Settings section of the Carrier Management screen.
This process takes 7 days, leaving time for the owner to reconsider. A percentage of the cost is refunded to the player once decommissioning is complete.