shinoda
Trojans Phalanx Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.23 11:41:00 -
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I fly carrier for over 1 year now. Used it for POS warfare, gang support, covering mining Ops and what not...
Reducing the amount of controlable fighters to 5 means nothing to me. The few times I jumped right into a battle between 20-40 men sized fleets I did not really make a difference with my fighters. If I don't want to sacrifice my tank I can not fit sensor boosters (I fly Chimera.) so I lock rather slow. By the time I lock a BS the rest of the fleet has killed 2. By the time my fighters reach their target another one has gone down. By the time my fighters killed that BS a 4th is gone. After that, for each one I kill, the fleet kills 2... given they don't shoot the ones I locked or sent my fighters at. Effectively I am left killing support ships like BC's and cruisers. For that job I don't use fighters though. I either use conventional T2 drones or a combo of webbers and sentries.
Reducing the amount of controlable drones to 5 is in my opinion the deathblow to what carriers should be: Frontline logistics. Noone in their sane mind would fly a 1bil (absolute minimum) ship that can't kill nor get away from a tackling frigate! A single interceptor could hold a carrier down with ease. Especially so with the comming interceptor changes. He'd just scram you and kill whatever drones you send at him. I am able to control 13 drones right now and still an interceptor is a dangerous opponent. I need a combo of energy vampires, webbers and light drones to scare it away. Can I kill it? No, I can't... he has the choice to leave the area whenever he wants because, seriously, who fits a scrammer on a carrier? That'd be low sec gankers if at all.
The picture of the all mighty carrier that non-carrier pilots like to draw is warped! It's warped by people who get killed by stupidity, inexperience or overconfidence when encountering capital ships.
I helped tackling a Mothership... we were 8 frigs and 2 interdictors. We suffered 1 loss because the pilot didn't watch his orbit, bumped into an asteroid and the drones caught up with him. We simply warped away when he sent his drones at us. That Nyx was held in place for almost 30 minutes before a battleship gang arrived to kill it. Despite of his skillpoints, his 30bil isk ship and 20+ controlable drones he never had a chance to get out alive!
Can you imagine how he felt?
Would you want to be in his position?
Do you seriously ask for making carriers and motherships even more vulnerable to tackling frigates?
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