Jenn aSide wrote:CCP won't be happy till creative people are handcuffed completely it seems. And like you said, all because people are too weak to assign someone to find the carrier and force it to dock or go in shields.
Quoted for obvious reason. One side gets their ass pounded, its an exploit...using game mechanics as is. Obviously its difficult to attack a carrier when some idiot flies a cheap cruiser cause the idiot doesn't bother to fly a carrier or dread to take down the other carrier. Power creep vs skill point/time investment; one can use a bigger ship with more fire power or use a smaller ship and out maneuver the enemy (pre-planning is outmaneuvering, forcing the carrier to dock or bubble up...you won even though they didn't die), works with cruisers taking down battleships since their guns cannot track smaller ships (aka for cap ships find the carrier, drop a dread on it, or chase it into a station/POS)
Simplest thing I could do if I where a developer......shields take longer to online for a POS, so they cannot be used like mobile cover like the bubble grenade in HALO 3. Biggest problem was the carrier was pre-planning how to attack using his bubble grenade, the other side could never figure out how to counter it
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Developer taking a little bit more effort, you know how titans can only fit one doomsday and surprisingly the only ship that can fit it is a titan....now you have a fix that is a single module that buffs fighters/bombers only that doesn't effect drones that only carriers/super carriers can fit. Now the carriers have to fit actual tank instead of sitting idle near stations/POS, docking would be unreliable (active docking aggression timer would help as well). To many modules where buffing the fighters, cap out their buffs and you fixed part of the issue.
Still think the guy attacking a carrier should bring several BS fleet or at least a cap ship dread/carrier of their own to take it another carrier, carriers where like the support DPS/heal classes in other games while the guy getting his ass kicked was the crappy DPS getting his ass kicked by a support class
. Flying cheap and desiring the killmail without putting in the bigger effort of taking down the enemy carrier...is laughable while you whine to fix a "exploit" of working as supposed to mechanics until CCP had to do something to shut the whining up on the forums.