Fleet Support Program

This page is specific to EVE University. Other corporations or groups in the game may operate differently. For a summary of EVE University's rules and code of conduct, see EVE University Rules.

Fleet Support Program
Run By: Production Department
Contact	Forum Post Emjay Yvormes
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The Fleet Support Program aims to help Fleet Commanders(FC) provide content for the community by providing fits of their choice at appropriate staging stations. The FC simply has to submit a form before the fleet, and everything else will be taken care of by the production department. The program can also be used for classes and events that need ships or modules to be used for a practical component or as prizes as well as for loaner ships that somebody will be handling personally. Both PvP and PvE activities are supported.

Costs

• For regular 'staged' fleets, the FC does NOT have to pay anything. (For other requests, contact the Production Manager.)
• The ships will be provided on Corp Contracts at the chosen staging station for the fleet members to purchase for a standard duration of 1 day.
• Unsold contracts will be taken down after the fleet, and the items added back to the production department's stockpile for use in future fleets.
• Pricing follows a method determined by the Production Manager that seeks to recover costs, any profits generated are reinvested into providing future Fleets and services.

Rules

• Requests have to be submitted 5 days (120 hour) before the fleet takes place.
• If there is less time than 5 days, please contact the Production Manager before submitting a request, and we can see if we can work something out.
• It has to be an official E-UNI fleet. That means it has to be published on the forum/calendar. That does NOT mean it has to be a UNI FC. Guest FCs are permissible.
• The contracts will generally be set to 24h duration. If you want to keep the rest up for a future fleet, please make a comment in the request or contact the Production Manager ahead of time. We can accommodate fleets that will go out several times over a few days up to daily recurring fleets.
• Production Department will stage fleets in one of thee stations:
  • Stacmon - The Quad
  • Averon - The Rock
  • PC9-AY III - Intaki Commerce Trading Post
  • special requests or StratOps will be considered by exception.
• FCs that want ships for a fleet in other locations and have their own means of getting them there are welcome to request them delivered at one of the approved locations for direct transfer to the FC.
• At our main E-UNI locations, the central structure should be used to simplify logistics and to keep form-up locations consistent between fleets.
• FCs are welcome to request ships for both the initial form-up as well as reshipping contracts at a strategic location elsewhere, however the FC would buy them at full Jita price and need to make their own logistical arrangements for staging
• Capitals and Supers are not provided, unless by special prior approval. For the purpose of this rule, Capitals are defined as any ships that require a "Standup Capital Shipyard I" to be built.
• The fits are the responsibility of the FC requesting them - we do not check fits for errors. Both doctrine and custom fits are supported.
• The fits must be provided in the EFT format. That is the format you get when you "Copy to clipboard" on the in-game fitting simulator or from external programs like Pyfa. Make sure when exporting from PyFa to EFT to untick the "Loaded Charges" option.
• If you want different variants of the same ship, eg. a Merlin with T1 guns and a Merlin with T2 guns, they have to be requested as separate fits.
• If there are more than 5 fits, submit additional requests as needed.
• Please keep the fits themselves reasonable. For example, don't request a T1 Merlin fit with a 3 billion ISK faction scram. This also applies to modules that are rare and difficult to obtain - if your request needs 100 meta lasers and the entire Jita trade volume in the last month was 10 of these, it is probably not going to happen regardless of the price.
• Please keep the overall amounts reasonable. If you expect 15 people to the fleet, don't request 30 DD and 30 Logi ships. Keep the ratio between the various roles, eg. Logi and DD, reasonable. For guidance on these aspects when starting out as FC, get in touch with other FCs in-game and in the appropriate Discord channels. Up to around 2 billion ISK per staging point for per fleet can usually be considered reasonable for a well-attended fleet. This number is meant as a general guide, not a hard rule.

Lead time

Given that more advanced hulls like BC+/T2/etc. can take a few days per hull to be manufactured, this can impact the lead time of 5 days. In some cases, this will necessitate a slightly different workflow:

• You can still submit these requests as per usual with a lead time of 5 days. However, if we can't produce the ships on time, we will import them, which will increase the price per fit up to jita sell.
• If unsure, check with the Production Manager beforehand what an appropriate lead time would be if you wanted everything to be manufactured at reduced prices.

Submitting requests

The link to the Request form can be found here.

The Production Department will contact you once the contracts have been set up, usually around 6 hours before the fleet. If there are no contracts up 2 hours before the fleet and you have not been contacted, please ping @Production Manager and @Senior Production Officer in the #ping-misc channel on Discord