Bob ThePlumber
United Society Starfleet
Axiom Empire
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Posted - 2007.04.09 09:51:00 -
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first of all, anybody whose ever actually flown a nidhoggur knows it needs a boost, anyone who says otherwise is a noob (and quite possibly cant even fly carriers, muchless the nid)
i am definitely AGAINST changing the slot layout however...i'm a dedicated shield tanker, if i fly a minmatar ship that doesnt shield tank, i just fit more damage mods, and dont tank at all...as an example, i have 600k SPs in mechanic i think, while i've got 3-4mil SPs in engineering...
the bonus is the one thing i'd like to see changed, to help bring it up to par with the other carriers. as said in the original post, a fighter speed bonus would mess with the tracking too much, but how about a fighter MWD speed bonus? so they will get in range of their targets faster. it would definitely be a huge leap from the bonus it has now, and i dont see any way anyone could really complain about it (unless their the ones getting killed ofcourse...) today i actually got to jump my carrier into a battle, for the first time (until now it sat at a POS and i went AFK while my fighters were out) and i had alot of fun, it takes quite a long time for fighters to move 70-80kms to get to a target however, and a 5% per lvl fighter MWD speed bonus would give it something that the other carriers just cant really get (like the chimaera's shield tank that no other carrier can achieve for example)...
A fighter MWD speed bonus would also be very in-line with the way many minmatar choose to fight. most minmatar ships are either setup for high speed, or pure destructive force, or a combination of the two...a support bonus (which at lvl4 is only .8 sec less time on remote capital reps...very weak if you ask me, compared to 20% shield, or armor resists, or fighter damage)
as for other bonuses it could use, it definitely doesnt have enough CPU...with just a shield tank, a couple nos, and couple of drone control units, i max out my CPU...its impossible to fit remote shield transfers with a shield tank on the thing (as someone said before, the problem is the 300 CPU use for the booster, i doubt the caldari carrier can fit shield transfers either...)
-BTP
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