Faramir
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Posted - 2006.02.06 21:45:00 -
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Edited by: Faramir on 06/02/2006 21:48:15
On a more serious note... I disagree with most you point out.
The carrier is a support ship, not a capital ship that is used at the front line or as a "tank".
In response to a few of your points:
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2) Defensive capabilities: In my opinion carriers should only be slightly below dreadnoughts on the defensive side. Otherwise they will become too vulnerable to a dreadnought in siege mode. Currently a dreadnought in siege mode can wipe the floor with a carrier in no time flat.
Dreads are designed as "siegeweapons". Their task is to siege objects and capital ships, they are the weapon of choice against structures and capital ships. The carrier isn't. Dreadnoughts can't hit anything with a bit of transversal when in siegemode.
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-Carriers should be given a siege mode of their own which give them the defensive capabilities of a dreadnought but give no bonusÆs to their gang assist or fighter drones, this mode would of course immobilize the carrier at the same time as make it immune to all forms of electronic warfare. The carrier must be allowed to continue using its capitol transfer arrayÆs of course.
I disagree, as I said earlier, the carrier fills a support role. When jammed it can still assign fighters to gangmembers and thus lose no offensive capabilities (indirectly). If assigned to the right ppl, their fighters will be just as effective as when the carrierpilot sends them out to engage on it's own.
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3) The really bad stuff about the current carrier/fighter system.
- Why do fighter drones follow their targets if all a victim has to do is warp to a safe spot and logoff/relog to stop them from following? In fact why was this feature included at all? Your fighters cannot even start hitting a cumbersome battleship before that pilot has time to realign his/her ship for warp again. Currently sending your fighters after a target is a death wish for your expensive drones. Especially during a battle where your enemies have player owned station with large nasty guns online, whoops.
I actually think following is a good option. It will make your enemy run around the system without losing the fighters on it's back unless you are lucky(?) enough to have a POS there. But then again, you can recal them before the fighters can even get targetted... (this point is very mute since carriers can be used in very many places, not always where ppl have their own defensive POS's)
Oh.. and most importantly... You seem to completely miss the part where the carrier is not a solo pwn mobile. It is supposed to be backed up by a great support fleet that can fend the enemy off for the carrier to do it's task. if scorpions jam your carrier, then you didn't jam or kill them, when you get scrambled, you need support to kill the tackler. When you get webbed enough to be a target for a dread, then u once again miss the support to prevent this.
Capital ships are an addition to a fleet, not solo pwn mobiles.
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