If all you do is add an extra rube for a support drone nothing will really be fixed as the support fighters aren't worth the fighter bay space

To be honest adding e-war bonus would be less drastic than adding another tube as that make carriers the only things that can use all their fighter types at once(not saying it makes them strong at all but its drastic mechanically)

but swapping their useless fleet boost bonuses for an e-war one should be easy and help them out a bit more

like i said adding a t1 ewar bonus so not to the drones but to local e-war turning them into capital e-war

so

archon

7.5 to TD

Chimera
15% bonus to ECM Target Jammer strength
25% bonus to ECM Target Jammer optimal range and falloff
25% bonus to ECM Burst range

thanatos
7.5% bonus to Remote Sensor Dampener effectiveness
7.5% bonus to Remote Sensor Dampener optimal range and falloff

nid
7.5% bonus to Target Painter effectiveness


basically they become e-war with moderate burst dps but capital tank

Wormholers won't be using carriers - It will be Dreads and Fax's for escalations - Dreads and Fax's for attacking Citadels - Carriers no longer have a place in wormhole warfare, unless all your facing is subcaps. In which case your better off bringing Haw fit dreads and subcap support.

not like its that far out and it would build onto the progression into super carriers who have their own bonuses for remote burst e-war.

I think the real question you need to be asking is why would you want to use them anymore?

Why would you want to do such a horrible thing to carriers? For a start 2 of the 4 carriers would be unable to use their "bonus to ewar" - Mid slots on shield carriers are needed for shield not rubbish Gimmick bonus's. When considering things like hull bonuses you need to take support ships into consideration too - Devs can't do it so it is up to players to not suggest silly things Devs might think are good.

Reason no carrier can have an ewar hull bonus - Fax's suck unless in triage and even then they won't rep as much as a triage archon does now. So if your happy to see your carrier killed by a few assault cruisers while your deciding which one to jam, good for you but please don't risk forcing it on those who want carriers to be useful on a battlefield.

I can see it now - Capital remote sensor dampener - 100,000 pg 65 cpu. Do you really want to give up 1/5th of your PG for an ewar module? You can be as sure as, Bob lives, Devs won't give ewar bonuses without also giving the "benefit" (benefit = huge drawback) of capital ewar modules.

Carriers are about fighters (see that devs, carriers need fighters) - Don't risk screwing them worse than Devs already have by suggesting silly things.

Sorry if this is a bit harsh - But Devs have screwed carriers enough, please don't add to their demise with silly suggestions. Get on SISI and try to fit out carriers with what is available, you'll find it is just one compromise after another.

not really sure you should ever have a large group of HAW dreads even now on TQ that is still not a good idea and the largest fleets of blap dreads you see are in WH where they still die honorably if you enemy brings dreads fit to kill dreads. only diferance now is its very very hard to refit to something that can defend against that.


and ccp hasn't changed the meta into something with the same game play they have drastically reduced it by nerfing the hell out of combat refitting.


and idk if they have given up as they were making progress and listening in the beginning i think they have just prioritized fan fest over this who know maybe they think they can get them fixed in a week :/