It does 900 DPS with 15 sentries and to use 15 you would have to fit 5 Drone Control Units requiring you to train a rank 8 skill to 5 (Adv Drone Interfacing).

Hardly anyone has this trained to 5 as having 5 Drone Control Units fitted means you have no highs left over for smart bombs and nuets which can make the difference in being able to get away if you are caught.

A lot of regular battleships can attain 900DPS.

It has to sit still or you risk losing sentries so you are susectiple to getting caught as you accelerate to warp off speed when a neut enters your system.

Arn't carriers changing to only be able to use fighters in the Winter expansion or is it only super carriers getting changed.

PS I have never flown a carrier but I believe all the above would be widely agreed upon by carrier pilots.

Does any one out there effectively use a thanny with a sentry fit to effectively grind a noms out in null.
If so, what's your fit like, what's your technique. When I first got into the Ishtar and discovered sentries I loved em, however am still yet to use them on my thanny as a main focus for ratting. Or is this the dumbest thing to mention. Does anyone use a sentry nix out there.

Arn't carriers changing to only be able to use fighters in the Winter expansion or is it only super carriers getting changed.

PS I have never flown a carrier but I believe all the above would be widely agreed upon by carrier pilots.

A ratting carrier is a dead carrier even if every system for the next 10 jumps around you is full of blues and not a nute in sight why bother to rat in something that a T1 battleship can do just as well while aligning faster than a fat american and not being a bill isk loss when you do end up going boom

Dude, do you not read. I KEEP aligned to a pos or station at all times - so the into warp speed time is negligable. I rat in a very well fitted CNR that out performs my Golum (both are perfect skilled) and is still outpaced by the carrier at a rate of 1.5x, Oh, and Im still waiting on drone interfacing 5 (that only takes 38 days to complete) and carrier 5 (48 days) that will get me a further 160 dps.

I have been running hordes/sanctums in a carrer for nearly 18 months in NC space and drone space and im still in the same hull I started with.

I dont deny that a carrier, if caught is dead meat - but you have to fly like a total fool to get it popped. As soon as a neut/red appears in local scoop drones (sentrys come in instantly) and warp home. - How hard can it be? Once you have got rid of the frigs the sentrys can clear up the site quickly without insruction so there is no excuse for missing a new guy in local.

I can only assume that you have lost lots of carriers ratting or never done it - either way you dont have much to add to this thread as you are clearly not flying the carrier rite or your just making assumptions on something you have never tried.

Oh and another thing, it cost me 700mil to buy and fit this carrier.

Great post except for the fact that DI V does not take 38 days...and you need it to even use a carrier anyway.

Checks evemon.....................................
ah ADVANCED drone interfacing - duh :)

Just a point of interest, Wouldn't carrier V be super more important to train first? I imagine it would have a much larger impact on your already 14 drones out rather than one extra drone.

ADI is just about last on my list to even toy with training.. I left mine at IV mind you when i finished my carrier skills in '09.
I suppose I ended up opting for at least one utility slot rather then one extra drone.

Just curious.

Gallente Carrier Skill Bonuses:
50% bonus to Capital Shield and Armor transfer range per level
5% bonus to deployed FightersGÇÖ damage per level
99% reduction in CPU need for Warfare Link modules
Can fit Tactical Logistics Reconfiguration modules
Can deploy 1 additional Fighter or Drone per level
200% bonus to Fighter control range

i love how narrow minded some of these people are. Everyone in eve that is a serious pve'er knows, its either carrier or mach for optimum pve. both can finish top end anoms in less then 20 minutes and with a support ship taking out small ships it gets down to 12 minutes or so. thats upwards of 150 mil an hour for two characters. So you people who hate carrier ratters are stupid. By the way, at range, with no transversal speed change wouldnt taking the frigs out with sentries as the close in range be the best way to deal with the frigs then allow the sentries to **** the slow moving bs npc's. oh and i lost a carrier once, a year ago. never again. always aligned and ready

A ratting carrier is a dead carrier even if every system for the next 10 jumps around you is full of blues and not a nute in sight why bother to rat in something that a T1 battleship can do just as well while aligning faster than a fat american and not being a bill isk loss when you do end up going boom

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To be honest, I'm a lazy mo'fo' and I can't be bothered using Fighters. - I prefer using Ogre II's.

Dude, do you not read. I KEEP aligned to a pos or station at all times - so the into warp speed time is negligable.
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As soon as a neut/red appears in local scoop drones (sentrys come in instantly) and warp home

This post is getting off topic. I know abut align and Sentries do not go well with allign time. Does anyone have a fit and a ratting technique that uses sentires.
Example, when i was in an ishtar, id warp into the haven or sanctum, at 70km, kill all the frigates on up, and everything was dead by 60km out. The frigs insta popped due to their lack of transversal velocity. The problem with the carrier is, it cant kill the battleships fast enough with the sentries having to return and letting the fighters out to kill the battleships. So the point is, does anyone effectviely know the trick to using sentries to run a high end anom more effiiciently than with fighters.