Originally by: Woolygimp

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Edited by: Woolygimp on 01/12/2007 00:13:27

Originally by: Woolygimp

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Originally by: Valea

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Carriers: lock terribly slow, move terribly slow, warp terribly slow, align terribly slow, huge sig radius, all weapons do max dps against it, can't use stargates, require fueling, can't go in high sec, takes a hauler to move the capital mods for it, can't do squat against small and fast ships, totally ineffective at soloing against all but the most inept targets, DOES LESS DPS THAN A MEGATHRON.

Yap thats just what I would think of a t2 battleship as.

To address your points, fuel costs add up to hundreds of millions of isk over the life of a carrier (hopefully). Getting a cyno pilot to a system can take just as long as getting there with conventionals, plus multiple jumps require several minutes of recharge. And being 80% cap drained after jump puts you in no condition to jump into the fray, whereas conventionals are good to go upon stargate jump. Battleships can defend against smaller ships better because of shorter lock times, and the potential to actually hit them, whereas fast ships can mwd away from drones while still staying in scram range. And the idea that a t2 battleship can't tank a carrier is absurd, fighters will go down like flies to BS fire, and even then, the roughly 1200 dps a carrier can produce can be shrugged off by a well tanked BS, so I would hope a t2 BS could handle it as well.

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Show me a Mega that can do 1500dps at max skills, with Carrier's range/tank to boot. Yeah, shut up.

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I didn't even finish reading your post, Holy Disinformation, Batman! Show me one Battleship that can tank 1200-1500 DPS.

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