Demagnon
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Posted - 2009.11.13 19:39:00 -
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Thank you for posting, but you are still missing the point.
The initial changes to Supercarriers were fine. In other words, you HAD it right. OK, so tinker a bit with fighterbombers (and fighterbombers only; please stop trying to fix fighterbombers by redoing the entire ship class to accommodate them) so that they do not ruin conventional warfare, but a supercapital should have its presence felt.
Supercarriers should be more than a giant DPS-sink. They SHOULD do more DPS than dreadnoughts; they SHOULD be special. They SHOULD be superior to carriers AND dreadnoughts in some form or another, be this form damage or logistical ability. Well, you chose damage by introducing the fighterbombers; so stick with it. Supercarriers are inferior to carriers in logistical ability without triage, which is fine, by the way. (I do support leaving out triage since otherwise the tremendous hit points would make balancing the ship nearly impossible; I am not so sure about leaving out the clone vat bay however, as I believe that those modules are part of what makes a supercapital "super" in terms of giving homage to the scale of the ship as a huge mobile platform -- supercarriers do still have a huge ship bay after all.)
You should NOT be able to dock them. To make that work, you would need to seriously rework the hit points of the hull, and that is not what we want -- the hull hit points change is what makes them viable to use. (You should, however, look into making it so that bubbles are ineffective toward targets inside of a POS forcefield such that CSMAs are more viable without sovereignty 4, but this can come later.)
Also, making us choose between fighterbombers and fighters is akin to a supercarrier giving up most of its anti-BS ability. (Again, I am happy with this.) So in a sense you already choose between some form of defensive measure when choosing which drones to carry. I do not support forcing this choice to be undergone in the high slots.
You are already making it so that the hulls should naturally become more of a rarity over time. (In fact it is my opinion that a good deal of the sovereignty changes started out with removing sov. 4 for this very reason to begin with.) These newest changes appear to be geared towards shrinking the gap between supercarriers and carriers, and I am very much against this.
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