Cpt AngelKnight
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Posted - 2009.11.29 11:55:00 -
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Edited by: Cpt AngelKnight on 29/11/2009 12:04:43
This to me is an interesting Topic, and although i admit to not reading every single page/post it has gotten me thinking.
This can really tie in with the recent capital spectacle that is Motherships, or now known as Suppercarriers.
Allow Motherships to become super-carriers as originally planned by CCP, then create a new ship class that can actually be called Motherships, or in this case Hive Ships, i admit, the idea in this topic does sound allot more like a mothership.
Look at this picture that lists all the ships of EVE (its huge btw):
http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/DavikRendar/EVE_Shipchart_Apocrypha_Edition.jpg
As it is now, A Mothership is no bigger than a dreadnought, so based on size there is no reason for then not to dock. And added to that, they dont look like a super capital to begin with, so here is the Idea:
Allow super carriers to be supper carriers (previously known as mother ships before dominion), let these ships be more combat orientated than normal carriers, thus making carriers the logistics platforms, and supercarriers a more up front battle platform, meaning:
Supercarriers:
Can dock
will only cost 6-10 bil (as was suggested by CCP)
can use fighter bombers
can still use the remote ECM module
increase jumprange
Increase HP but only to the point where a single titan cannot instapop one, not to the level originally suggested on sisi, leave that to real moms.
Can NOT fit a Triage
gets NO bonus to Logistics, tho the mods may still be fitted unbonused (this is to insure that carriers remains the logistics platform)
Right, with that out of the way it opens up the opportunity for ccp to create REAL Mother ships or Hive Ships as suggested in this Topic, allow these ships then to have the serious amount of HP originally suggested to Supercarriers on SISI.
So basically to sum it up:
super carriers will be a tier 2 carrier (note tier to not tech 2) thats more focused on front line combat than logistics, and will be classified as a normal capital
Then create REAL motherships based on some ideas from this topic, classify these ships as super capitals and have them be either the same size as a titan or half the size (still way bigger than original Moms) 
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