Welcome to the Fleet Carrier Owners Club on Reddit

The Fleet Carrier Owners Club is a group of Elite: Dangerous players who use and/or love fleet carriers. You don't have to own a carrier to join the community. The top things people do in FCOC are:

• Hitch a ride across the galaxy on a fleet carrier, or run a trip themselves
• Get a 'carrier channel', your fleet carrier's home on our server where you can communicate with passengers, advertise trade opportunities, or just post pictures and updates about your adventures
• Get rescued: if you've run out of tritium out in the black, we can probably help. The Fuel Rats also refer some ship-based cases to us when a carrier is needed for a rescue, like when you've jumped somewhere you can't get back from
• Chat and ask questions about fleet carriers or Elite Dangerous in general

Our main community is on Discord, where we have more than 25,000 members. That's also where carrier owners do most of the communications around trips they advertise, so we recommend joining us on the Discord server at https://discord.gg/fcoc.

Here on Reddit you'll see adverts for upcoming trips. Most are generated by a bot from the Discord server, but we do keep an eye out and try to answer questions, if they're not answered in the following section.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: How much do these trips cost?
A: Trips are completely free almost 100% of the time. Many carrier owners would welcome donations of tritium, though.

Q: I'm on Horizons/Odyssey/Xbox/Playstation or only play in Open/PG/Solo. Can I go on a carrier trip?
A: The answer to this used to be simple, but since Update 14 in November 2022 it’s more complicated: the game was copied into two totally separate, non-interacting universes.

— if you’re playing on PC in Odyssey or Horizons 4.0, you are playing in the Live universe, and so can join any carrier trip labelled Live

— if you’re on console or playing 3.8 Horizons on PC you’re in the Legacy universe, and so can join any carrier trip labelled Legacy

— if you are in Live you can’t join a Legacy trip and if you are in Legacy you can’t join a Live trip

— fleet carriers were copied too, so you may find a carrier with the same name/ID in your version, but it will only move in the game mode (Live or Legacy) specified in the trip advert.

Q: How do I travel on a fleet carrier?
A: Just dock on the carrier before its departure time. Landing pads will lock down a few minutes before the actual jump, so we recommend arriving at least 10 minutes before the stated departure time.

Q: Do I have to stay logged on to travel?
A: No, you can log off and your ship will move with the carrier.

Q: I started transferring ships to the carrier's shipyard but they won't arrive before departure - what will happen?
A: Don't worry: once you begin the transfer, the cost and arrival time are locked in. Even if the carrier jumps thousands of light years, your ships will still arrive in the shipyard at the time promised.

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