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CCP Gangleri
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Posted - 2007.10.30 17:15:00 -
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Carrier != Hauler
Ships will be allowed to carry ammo in their cargo hold even while inside a ship maintenance bay. As it stands now carriers have a ship maintenance bay of 1m on Sisi. Nothing on Sisi is ever final. Please provide constructive feedback with minimal misinformation and speculation where possible.
I reiterate:
Carrier != Hauler
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CCP Gangleri
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Posted - 2007.11.29 21:17:00 -
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 Originally by: infinityshok
Originally by: Kerfira
Originally by: Darth Sylar
...what is a bleeding carrier if not a logistics ship? it has no primary weapon for god's sake!
Try walking up the the captain of the USS Nimitz and tell him his ship is a logistics ship. My guess is you'll get a fist in the face...
A carrier is a COMBAT ship! Not a bloody hauler!
Come up with an analogy that has some vague relevance. When was the last time you saw an aircraft carrier warping around outer space in a far off galaxy.
The reason for people bringing this analogy to the table is that so many posters use the logic:
carrier=carries stuff=hauler
Which is just not true, carriers are combat ships that carry mostly what they need to support their own combat ability. This should also hold true for carriers in eve, they are combat ships that were always meant to be used for combat logistics as opposed to POS fueling logistics. In my previous post on page 18 I explained how logistics for large scale POS networks are being moved over to ships that are less geared toward combat tasks. They will need combat support, and carriers will still be very useful in that role.
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CCP Gangleri
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Posted - 2007.11.29 22:35:00 -
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There is no fighter nerf, that was simply a suggested solution to the fact that carriers were in essence combat ready haulers. Instead we are removing the hauling ability from them and adding more combat logistics power.
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CCP Gangleri
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Posted - 2007.11.30 11:31:00 -
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Black ops portals are only usable by covert ops ships, Recon, Covert ops and Black ops can use them. No other ship type can use them.
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CCP Gangleri
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Posted - 2007.11.30 14:54:00 -
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Edited by: CCP Gangleri on 30/11/2007 14:56:42
Dreads and Rorquals fitted for cargo expansion are reducing their combat effectiveness for hauling power. That was not the case with the carriers as they were. This is the heart of the matter, massive hauling potential without any loss of combat ability is simply out of the question.
As for the larger alliances vs. smaller and medium sized alliances. That is and always will be unbalanced, did you expect it to be easy for a tiny band of brave carrier pilots to run a massive POS network in deep 0.0 next to a huge hostile alliance?
Oh you did?
Well, thats not the way it should be.
Jump freighters will and should require backup to be most effective, 0.0 logistics will no longer be one carrier pilot and his cyno alt.
edit: typos and other stuff
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