Sarf
Asgard Industries
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Posted - 2007.10.23 08:17:00 -
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after reading several pages, not all 76, i have to come down on the side that capital ships are working as they should, and should not be changed.
I don't fly a carrier but the explanations of how they work and the roll they fill seems correct.
It seems there is a problem with the triage module not being useful in practice. So that should be addressed first.
Here is a alternate idea. How about a variation of a existing battle ship that is a any carrier role. It has about 75% of the fire power of a existing battle ship. But when a new mid slot module is activated on it, the new ships weapons go live and automatically fire on any hostile fighter that come within say 50 km of the ship.
The anti fighter targeting would do a threat assessment and kill fighters in this priority:
1. a fighter targeting the anti-fighter ship.
2. a fighter targeting a gang mate
3. a fighter targeting a squadron mate
4. a fighter targeting a fleet mate
5. a hostile fighter in range.
At this point it would lock on the weapons and fire automatically. This is why people are reporting that against sentry guns the the fighters are overly vulnerable.
( off topic, I would like to see sentry drones work like this also, the player don't have to activate them, they target and shoot hostile things, but if told to attack something then the players choice overrides the AI)
This would eliminate one of the complaints of lots of fighters is that they lag out everyone to the point where you can't react to them. Because the fighter targeting would be done server side where the whole battle is loaded and evaluated.
A carrier could still kill an anti fighter ship, but it would be guaranteed to loose a few fighters doing so. But the anti fighter BS would be easy killings for a regular battle ship
With the anti fighter BS protecting the gang mates then the gang mates can focus on killing the carrier as they know they are covered from fighters by a gang mate.
- Sarf
CEO, Director of Freighter construction.
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