I dislike the idea of fighters in hisec due to their ability to warp around. Perhaps give it the carrier bonus of +1 drone per level but restrict it to heavies. Ie 10 drones at max level. However in all other respects I do quite like your proposal.

No. Use a dominix.

If you want to play with big ships and "higher end content" you'll need to leave the Concord blanket at home.

Outside of the "fun" argument, what role does this ship serve? How does it fit inbetween the current ships?

It's too overpowered for high sec as it's unchallenged, OP ofcourse knows this and tries to hide this by calling it "fun".

If it does about the damage of a BS, and can do some logistics, with a commiserate price tag associated, how is that overpowered or unchallenged?

If a Battleship can fight it, then it is not "unchallenged"

My thoughts.

For each lvl of the skill required to fly this ship, you gain the ability to fit one drone control unit.

Also, I am not under a concord blanket, nor am I talking about "higher end content" Please read my "caveat" from my OP.

Outside of the "fun" argument, what role does this ship serve? How does it fit inbetween the current ships?

you want carrier like abilities in high sec

how about no?

DCU's are already governed by the advanced drone interfacing skill. Plus DCU's are a capital sized mod. However +1 drone per level would be a more appropriate way of going about it without the DCU. I'm still against allowing it to deploy fighters though.

+1 drone per level is almost the same as +20% drone damage per level (as with drone interfacing)

Take a Domi, give up its guns and buff the drone bonus from 10 to 20, and you now have a BS ship fielding the equivalent of 10 drones worth of firepower.

I'd see a light carrier as something that is meant to deploy smaller craft to fight for it - it wouldn't be an oversized logi, or a mobile base.

-No capital reps, no capability similar to T2 logis
-No ship hangar/clone vat/etc

Just a large drone bay for deploying smaller ships that must stay near the light carrier.
I suppose you could make a "Light Fighter" that is like a normal fighter, but lacks a warp drive.


Or you could just make it an ++ber-drone boat.

How about this:
Role bonus: +50 km to drone control range
Bonus #1: +10% to drone damage, HP, speed, combat utility drone effect strength (tps, energy drain, web, jam, etc), and repair amount per level
Bonus #2: +1 to max drone control per level

So at lvl 5, you field 10 drones doing 1.5x the damage of normal drones (or with 1.5x the repair amount for shield/armor maintenance bots, or 1.5x the TP/energy drain/sensor damp. web effectiveness) going 1.5x faster

With max skills, those drones have a base control range of 110 km


I'm not sure how you'd very a light carrier by race, or what non-racial faction would produce it... a vessel made by ORE for deep space patrol of their mining fields?

Maybe we make a new class of T2 combat BS's, and this is the Gallente design?
I don't think it would work like that - it would be **** in fleets, but whatever non-drone T2 BS you give to the other races will probably be pretty good in fleets (unless the caldari one is a missile boat)

Use a Dominix, as stupid idea is stupid.

The idea is simple,
A sub capital ship about the size of an Orca, that can use jump gates, can go in high sec, and DOES NOT have a jump drive. It can field five fighters, or drones. Does not have a corp hanger or ship maintenance array. Cannot fit triage module. The point is to have a ship that can provide the gameplay style of a carrier pilot, without the capital ship. Cost should be between 400-500 million isk.

Should have a drone capacity of 25500, this allows for 5 fighters with 500 extra for drones.

The bonuses on it should be similar to the carrier as far as logistics is concerned, but not able to fit capital shield/armor/cap relays, instead allow them to fit BS/logistics sized modules with a bonus to range and maybe a bonus to cycle time. It should not have a large bonus to fighter damage. It is not designed to be a smaller package of equal kick-assery to full fledged carriers. More like a BS tank combined with a logistics ship and the ability to field a single flight of fighters.

Caveat: I am not a carrier pilot, I am a logistics pilot and I feel there is a gap here that could be fun to play. This thread is not a "give me cap ships before I am ready" or a "fix 0.0 fights by adding _____ ship" thread. It is just an idea that I think would be fun to play, so please keep the flames to a minimum. Also, the stats I posted are obviously open for discussion and balancing. I am just curious if a light carrier idea is viable and if people think it would be fun or not.

Nah.

Rather give us more carrier hulls.

Actually, I want it for roaming gangs in null, but it doesn't make sense to restrict it to null sec if it can jump through gates.

Dont assume that everyone who disagrees with you is a high sec care bear.

Your opinion regarding the idea has been made clear. You don't win points by continuing to make it over and over. Thanks for playing.

You must be new to posting.

The idea is bad and this thread is bad and you should feel bad.

Also, after perusing your 26 pages of posts in the forums it is clear that you have never contributed to any discussion you have dropped into ever. /hide posts. Done.

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