Alais Wiccanfae
Gallente
Templars of Space
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.28 15:16:00 -
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 Originally by: Montaire
C'mon people! You know that Iteron V, its an Industrial Ship. The Rorqual is a Capital Industrial Ship. You will note the Rorqual does not require Battleship 5 ? It requires Barge V, and Industry V.
Why cant we have a decent role for the carrier in combat, and a decent role for the Rorqual in industry.
The rorquals got a great role in industry, gang mining and then hauling minerals from aforementioned mining op - any further hauling roles are coincidental, much like a carrier(which I will repeat is called a CARRIER, not a ship carrier or drone carrier, just a carrier).
A carriers role in combat -
Fleet op: sit at a pos, give out 200/300m worth of hardware to other pilots to enjoy and dole out cap/shields/armour/ships to said pilots - funfunfun
Alternatively enter the battle in the hopes of having some fun, get damped, tackled and then drilled by snipers whilst being too lagged out to do **** about it.
Gang combat: Get pinned by 1 or 2 tacklers whilst your support who are controlling your fighters seeing as your damped to hell and back die off, one by one, because funny enough, a damped carrier can't rep friendlies. Then nervously wait(assuming your tank holds) to see if your tacklers friends show up before yours do - note the carrier at this point has provided an island to fight around and hasn't actually contributed one whit.
Like 70% of other carrier pilots I got mine for the logistical side of things combat action is just part of the package. If I wanted to be combatcentric I would have trained for a dreadnaught.
For the people who like to make r/l references, a carrier in todays warfare makes almost every other ship about it redundant, it can launch cruise missiles, ECM planes and Radar specialised planes, submarine hunting planes, anti air planes - so if we're going to talk about how r/l carriers don't haul ships with cargo in them, are we going to mention how they are solopwnmobiles? this is EVE<-----not----->Earth
If this goes through it will be the nail in the coffin for my 3 accounts.
/me waits patiently for Age of Reckoning
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