Lady LeJean
Genbuku.
Daisho Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.10.24 15:01:00 -
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Ok, As a mothership pilot I may be somewhat biased, but I need to put in my 2 cents worth
a) On the topic of limiting the number of fighters a carrier can control without assigning them to team mates. What happened to risk vs reward? .. What i mean by that is that there is already a risk / reward gate in place . Today if I want to sit all pretty and protected by a pos, all i can do is deploy 5 fighters / gangmate and hope they use them properly. But .. if I have the nads to warp that billion isk ship right into harms way onto a gate or station , I get the use of all my drones under my direct control. That sounds balanced to me ..
If the suggestion of limiting control is put into play is implemented, I would go absolutely nuts trying to track who has what and constantly re-deploy fighters based on CTD's and gang changes. Effectively it would cripple the offensive power of a carrier . Sorry but in my humble opinion, if someone is putting out several billion isk to fly one of these things, I should be able to warp to a gate and WTFBBQ some(or several) noobs that are floating around in 100 mil isk ships ... Additionally, in trying to fight a zealot last night I can tell yuo that a carrier is already pretty much useless against smaller ships without tackling support . IT AIN"T Broke .. don't fix it ..
b) I am truley concerened about carriers / motherships lumped into 1 category here .. when I am paying upwards of 20 x the cost of a carrier to be in a MS, sacrificing even my ability to dock, why is the mothership being lumped into this? For the sacrifice and cost, and the name MOTHERSHIP one would expect it to hold a lot of ships, be great for logistics and have a nasty sting if you arbitraritly start shooting at it ..
c) Have you guys actually done carrier combat at any real scale? With the lag and overview bugs that seem to cronically plague the carriers / MS, it is almost impossible to effectively control drones in heavy combat let alone monitor / recal / delegate and engage with wingmen in large scale battles.
In summary .. they work .. leave them .. fix the *** drone problems first and don't lump carriers and motherships into one pile when you smack them with the nerf bat ..
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