Question about Freighter and Frigate limitations

[suvlucky]

How to manage more than 6 Frigates with only 1 Freighter? There are only 6 Landing Pods in my Frighter. Is it possible to have more than 1 Freighter? Some people here are talking about Expeditions and to send more than 6 Frigates in summary... The documentation in Fandom Wiki is not really complete about this.

[BlueLightning]

You can't have more than 1 freighter... Landing area is for starship afaik? Frigates are flying around the Freighter, max of 30. You need another fleet control room at the freighter to manage more than 5 afaik.

[Kitet]

Landing Pads in your freighter are for your and NPC starships, and there are 9, not 6. 6 is the limit of starships you can own. They have nothing to do with frigates nor the Frigate Expeditions.

Don't confuse Expeditions, like the current, Emergence, with Frigate Expeditions, which you send by talking to navigator at your freighter.

In vanilla game:
- You can't have more than one freighter,
- Frigate limit is 30,
- You send up to 5 frigates on one frigate expedition.

Because navigator offers up to 5 expedition opportunities per 24 hours and any still in progress takes up the slot on the navigator list until complete, you should not be able to send more than 5 expeditions. There's, as with anything in NMS, a method to circumvent this limit. You simply claim another freighter (forfeiting ownership of your current one) and there will be another navigator with their own set of expedition options.

Now that freighter base transfers from freighter to freighter, it's no problem, unless you're attached to your current one, like it has storage, parameters or upgrades you don't want to lose when getting a new one.

[suvlucky]

Thank you all for information, still tested and works!

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by Kitet:

Landing Pads in your freighter are for your and NPC starships, and there are 9, not 6. 6 is the limit of starships you can own. They have nothing to do with frigates nor the Frigate Expeditions.

Don't confuse Expeditions, like the current, Emergence, with Frigate Expeditions, which you send by talking to navigator at your freighter.

In vanilla game:
- You can't have more than one freighter,
- Frigate limit is 30,
- You send up to 5 frigates on one frigate expedition.

Because navigator offers up to 5 expedition opportunities per 24 hours and any still in progress takes up the slot on the navigator list until complete, you should not be able to send more than 5 expeditions. There's, as with anything in NMS, a method to circumvent this limit. You simply claim another freighter (forfeiting ownership of your current one) and there will be another navigator with their own set of expedition options.

Now that freighter base transfers from freighter to freighter, it's no problem, unless you're attached to your current one, like it has storage, parameters or upgrades you don't want to lose when getting a new one.

That is a good explanation, but it is possible to have more than 5 frigate missions out at a time. I currently have 7 out waiting to be debriefed in one of my saves. I don't know why it grays some out sometimes, but I regularly have more than 5 out at a time.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2640561097

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2640561115

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2640561136

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2640561144

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2640561158

[Cesar]

You can have as many frigates as you want. I'm not sure there's a limit.

You need one command room for each mission you send frigates out on.

If I have one command room and two frigates and I send one on a mission, I must create another command room to send the other frigate on a mission. This holds true for however many frigates you send on a mission, you need an unused command room to send more frigates on another mission.

This is where fuel gets expensive. I believe there are a maximum of five frigates per mission and 6 missions each day. 30 frigates are going to need lots of it. I'm not sure if you can have more than 30 frigates.

There is a frigate control station all the way to the right as you enter, next to the captain. You can look over your frigates and see which ones are on missions, which ones are not, which ones are damaged, what kind they are... A lot of frigate information.

[Happy Monkey]

There are five new missions per day, but long missions can carry over, so you can have more than five running at a time, if you have enough command rooms and frigates.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

You can have six ships.
Good idea to always leave one slot open in case you find that forever ship you just can't pass up. Otherwise, you will likely be in your current favorite ship when you find it and have to exchange.

You can have up to thirty frigates. They float around your freighter in formation.