Carriers: Allow Bot/Bat/Ammo Sharing for Snubs Docked Inside?

[Thunderer]

Heavy carriers are currently, simply put, useless. They do have a great deal of light turrets, but their size still makes them easy targets for bombers. If you ever see me flying a heavy carrier, that is because I'm bored and want a good challenge by flying an underpowered ship.

Light carriers are, on the contrary, very useful as light battleships with more secondary turrets. If fact, the Geb, the Order assault carrier, is the ship I would use first if I was hunting for blue messages in the Omicrons. If I ever bought a ship for pews in Rheinland, it would be an Elbe. But this is not the subject.

Carriers, if paired with docking bays, should have a use. If you dock on a player ship, it doesn't count as PvP death. I think a snub that docks should be able to buy nanobots, shield batteries and ammunition from the carrier's stock. That means that if the carrier had been badly damaged and it repaired itself, there would be no nanobots available. Other ships with docking bays would not be able to do this, only carriers (if the game engine allows it).
This might seem slightly OP at the first glance, but in case light carriers are nerfed, all carriers will be weaker than any battleships. All you'd have to do to get rid of a fighter repairing platform is to bring a battleship or a pair of cruisers. Stone, paper, scissors.
An organized bomber fleet with a carrier will, however, have an advantage over an organized bomber/fighter fleet with a battleship, which is the point. Like in the Pacific 1941--1945. A carrier should be as useless as it is alone, but the ultimate weapon in a team.

I'm for either this, or for turning heavy/light carriers into heavy/light battleships or battlecruisers, depending on which the navy in question lacks.

What are your thoughts?

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