Another fact is a player causes more stress on the server than a drone.

The point is it was jumping massive amounts of players in at the last second that ruined the experience for CFC, not drones. You should plan better next time friend.

Find a counter to sentries

Counters to sentries only work when ships hold a reasonably small number of them. When you have ships that can hold 3,200 sentries each, the counter isn't exactly viable anymore.

I think I heard the word "Omegafleet" being quietly burned from your post history

You can feel free to compare my post history on here with eve-search.

In any case, omegafleet isn't a counter to sentries, it's a counter to slowcat EHP combined with massive capital RR. It also happens to only work when we're able to load grid and activate our weapons and hardeners.

Since your blap naglfars haven't proven effective, drop the supercapitals. It's what they're for.

"Oh noes we won't fight them on their terms!!!"

Tough luck. There is a counter to this admittedly imbalanced form of warfare that does not necessitate forcefully bending the node over and giving it a quicky. If you don't like it, don't try to take the systems defended by archons.

Complaining about the node is not going to get the nodes expanded to accomodate your ridiculous form of war anytime soon; especially since you were both dropping inordinate numbers of pilots and so are equally to blame. Complaining in GD is an exercise in futility since A) your battle sperg doesn't belong here anyway and B) it's not technical support.

I would be interested in finding out what this counter is to the capital blob.

Counters to sentries only work when ships hold a reasonably small number of them. When you have ships that can hold 3,200 sentries each, the counter isn't exactly viable anymore.

AOE damage on all ship and missile explosions will solve the drone-induced lag issue.

Why is it not viable? Is it because you are inconvenienced by time? What about the guy being inconvenienced by having his 2Bil Carrier and 3 Bil in Sentries (rough estimate for a full drone bay) alpha'd off the field by dreads or battleships?

what about the people who only have a thousand dudes in their entire alliance. What counters 2000 man mega fleets...should they just have to roll over and die off or should they take a lesson from GSF and just Blue everything in sight?

The n+1 mentality some of you have really needs to go.

drop the supercapitals. It's what they're for.

Using the magical tool known as reading, you would soon discover that the age-old doctrine of the supercap blob, the workhorse of old null, seems to be a pretty decent option in this case.

That, or, as mentioned about three times now, use omegafleet. Take out those carriers from outside of sentry range and negate the amount of lag - you're practically doing the world a favour.

We did use omega fleet. Unfortunately the servers cannot handle the sheer amount of drones that are getting tossed about. So until that gets dealt with there isn't anything you can do against a blob of carriers.

Maybe bring in omegafleet before the 1000 domis? I mean if 1000 domis loaded grid, maybe 500 nags and 500 domis could also load grid. Just saying....

Cyno jammers cause issues with cynos. Just saying...

good thing mobile jammers don't cover the whole grid....let alone system.

Cyno jammers cause issues with cynos. Just saying...

AOE damage on all ship and missile explosions will solve the drone-induced lag issue.

What's the range on a cynojammer? How big is a solar system? Drop 500 nags and 500 domis somewhere else. All of their caps, supers, and titans were bubbled. Weren't going anywhere. Hostile subcap support was light, certainly not a match for your 500 domis. Then use amazing warp function to land on grid. Much hard.

Of course not, but if you cyno out of the jammer range you're essentially allowing the enemy fleet to dictate your positioning. Kill the jammer and you can position wherever you want.

You must make lots of isk in highsec lol..

There is no warping in 10 percent tidi with 10k drones deployed and 4k people in system

you mean you don'thave LR dread comps that can alpha carriers outside of 100K? Or are you unable to warp to a ping on grid with CR dreads from 150K+ away? Cyno 200K off...warp down to bubbled carrier fleet with CR dreads, or cyno in at your LR optimals...

Not difficult.

Heck why you lot didn't just cyno on the SBU and DPS race is a noodle scratcher too.

LOL for those of you who live in empire.. Supers dont counter slowcats either fyi... Every single carrier has at least one smartbomb ready to be refit.. And do I have to tell you what happens to Fighters and Fighter Bombers when they run into a carrier blob of 300 each with 2 smartbombs...

Hell in that case.. I demand super rebalance.. Super should have Sentry bombers and should be able to carry 3500 of em?

Seems legit..

Right now there is no counter to the carrier blob that the server can handle..

Titans are nice in thought but the issues is there are to many carriers.. If we played in a lag free fight where proper nag alpha could be used.. titans would die yes.. but carriers would keep coming in one by the hundreds... Not to mention 300 sentry carriers in 0 lag can prob alpha 2 and 3 dreads at a time..

So moral of the story..

Despite what the all knowing Grath says drones do cause lag.. and right now there is no counter to what there doing that the server can handle..

If we did drop 800 dreads and no subs into a slowcat fight they would simply drop 100s of drones till the node crashes.. there simply is no fix or counter

Jump in dread fleet, dread fleet gets jumped on by counter cyno as they align and bubbled. Dread fleet is now stuck on the wrong grid and unable to dictate anything.

And this explains why you are short 350 dreads. You guys have no capacity in understanding capital warfare. Just an FYI Nags can shoot further than 100K so you cyno in at 110K and presto now your nags are on grid and they can begin popping Carriers. Its not rocket science.

You brought a knife to a gun fight...and then threw it on the ground and ran in swinging your arms wildly at the air.

It doesnt matter what range we picked, the carriers were doing very little damage. About the only things that were working were the DDs.