Sadly you're going to kill a lot of the usability of a normal carrier by taking away the "normal drones". Carriers are used in large scale fights (which I get that you're trying to promote these with the changes) but there are countless other uses, ratting, home defense, etc.

Am I ever going to be able to Dock my Nyx, what a waste of a character, just sitting in it.

You are also removing fighter-bombers from the game, im sure the people that trained fighters up to level 5 just for the ability to use fighter-bombers will greatly appreciate that.

Unless they neglected to announce that Carriers will only be able to do anti-frigate/anti-fighter only dps and crap ewar. carriers will be able to launch heavy fighters.

Thanks for the giant "Screw you" to everyone who trained triage II. Completely uprooting the the triage carrier pilot will go over grand.

"New rapid firing anti-sub-capital weapon batteries are specifically designed to fire at sub-capitals. However their damage will be considerably lower than current XL weapon systems (in the 1 to 2k DPS range on a Sieged Dreadnought)"

I assume that these will be replacing the current extra large guns... If so, isn't this is a massive nerf? In what situation would anyone field a dread, worth billions, to kill sub-caps if it only has the fire power of 2-3 battleships?

You misunderstand.

That's what i'm saying... If the current XL weapons are going to be nerfed so that they will be ineffective against sub-caps, then this effectively means their ability to engage subcaps is being replaced with the introduction of these new guns... As Oskolda said, people will probably just take hard hitting battle ships instead.

Maybe if they can kick out the damage of 5 or 6 battleships i could get behind it but 2 to 3 seems very low to me.

- Hic's will get obsolete
Values your where asking our feedback to:
- The remove of eware immunity, I didn't like it in the past but thatGÇÖs too easy. You should need at least 10-20 Falcons to make a titan blind, you should need at least 50 to 100 points to tackle it or a bubble or a hic.

What will happen to Drone Control Units? The +1 fighter will be worthless with the transition to squadrons.

As it should be?

Well, it makes good sense for capitals to tackle each other well. The reused to be a tactic called "ghost riding" where you would cyno a carrier in, pilot would eject a hictor or Dictor from ship bay, and then jump into that ship for tackle.

Seems like a weird work around for the same effect.

CCP, would you consider reimbursing CCC rigs on my Archon once they become useless?

Attitudes like yours are killing EVE, they are the exact reason why the game has been turning for the worse in the last year or two.
CCP could literally turn EVE into a Pay2Win game and get away with it because 90% of the community will have their fun trolling each other over how much they love or hate the changes, instead of trying to find sensible approach to the problem.

The ewar immunity should remain when in siege/triage/bastion mode. Why? Because it is not overpowered in these modes. The ships are self-tackled. Ewar immunity on Supercarriers was bad because it meant they did not have to commit. Triage Carriers (FAX's) and Dreadnoughts do have to commit. I am all about hurting slowcats and Supercarriers, but I believe this change goes a bit too far.

*snip* big post of interesting perspective *snip*