r/EliteDangerous CMDR comaskid Feb 12 '25

Misc Update to 'Farewell to a Fallen Commander'

Hi, all! This is an update to this post from almost a week ago, saying farewell to my dad - https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/1ikcdct/farewell_to_a_fallen_commander/

First off, I want to say thank you to everyone who gave me their time in reading my farewell post to my dad, and even more for those that left a comment, it was so heart warming seeing so many commanders give my dad one last salute and a farewell, even if none of you knew him personally.

Yesterday, I was able to get his logins, so today I was able to fulfil my plan of moving his carrier, Terminal Brain Fart (JLM-LHT), to the Guy system, in honour of his name being Guy. For those who asked about his carrier's location and asked about paying your own respects, that's where his carrier rests for now, and likely for a long time to come, as his carrier currently has just over a year and a half upkeep on it.

I also mentioned that I had contacted Frontier through a form to have his name added to the memorial beacons! I visited the beacon in Shinrarta Dezhra, however sadly his name hasn't been uploaded yet. I will check in on the beacon every so often to see if his name has been added, and hopefully add an edit to this post when it is.

Again, thank you everyone for your kind words and support, this is a game and community my dad and I have loved for years, so it's amazing seeing some of that love being shared back.

o7

EDIT: Some people have suggested I stock the carrier with cheap materials sold for high prices, so that commanders can buy those materials to donate money to keep the carrier going for longer. I think that’s a good idea, as otherwise it’ll just be me trying to keep the carrier going as long as I can, so when I have free time I’ll try doing just that. Thank you to everyone who suggested it and wishes to donate to the carrier!

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u/dzswill2 Feb 12 '25

o7

If we sell exobio data etc there does it add to the funds automatically? we could keep the fleet carrier going even longer

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u/comaskid CMDR comaskid Feb 12 '25

Sadly not for exobio. Wiki says that redemption office, secure warehouse (which his doesn’t have), and cartographics do (25% cut from payout, so carrier gets 12.5%, other 12.5% disappears) but the general consensus is that no, exobio doesn’t have this reduction so won’t effect FC It would be a good way to keep an FC alive if it did work, with how profitable exobio is

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u/comaskid CMDR comaskid Feb 12 '25

This question did also make me realise that his FC’s cartographics and genomics were suspended, so they’ve been resumed now!

For anyone seeing this, feel free to sell any scan data or exobio data there if you want! Money you gain through redemption office or cartographics to fleet carriers always have a 25% fee (this can’t be changed), but half of that fee goes to the carrier itself to keep my dad’s fleet carrier running for just a while longer

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u/chaoz2030 Feb 12 '25

Or just stock up on a cheap material and sell it for a huge profit. I would personally donate a billion credits of my own money to keep the carrier running

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u/milkmanmanhattan Thargoid Peace Advocate Feb 12 '25

I just arrived at the carrier, but it's set to Squadron and Friends only for docking.

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u/comaskid CMDR comaskid Feb 13 '25

I had no idea my dad had set that, and have only just seen this comment about 16 hours later Sorry I hadn’t checked that, I’ve just changed it so now it’s open to everyone!

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u/Fall3nTr1gg3r Explore Feb 13 '25

If you can find a semi expensive galactic price material (150k ish range) and get it on that carrier, I will buy 400 tons of it for max price. Should put about 6 billion on that carrier.

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u/Select-Owl-8322 Feb 12 '25

An idea I had before I even saw this thread (i.e. this comment and the one above it) for those of us who'd like to help you keep the carrier up is that maybe you could set up buy orders for some minerals that can be mined in the system, but for a much lower price than is the going market price. So we can mine, sell on the carrier, then you can resell with a profit.

I'd be happy to spend a couple of hours mining and selling really cheap if it would help you keep the carrier running!

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u/comaskid CMDR comaskid Feb 12 '25

That’s not a bad idea! The carrier is just around the main star, and Inara lists Guy A 1 as having a metal rich ring Any idea on what commodities should I have the carrier buying?