Carriers

[Hidamari]

Carriers are actually Support ships, It is really weird to see a carrier destroying a Battleship. Currently Carriers and Their size makes them look like Heavy Battleships and Their firepower is huge that can destroy a cruiser easly at close combat.
Light Battleships have no chance at close combat with a Carrier.

Carriers meant to be support ships, launch (ai controlled?) fighters or bombers to hit hostile ships. I think that is impossible to do with FL Mechanism.
Oh yeah players can dock to player ships but if they do that, people cri to faction feedback thread and It is really hard to see this happening anyway

Here some ideas

1.Carriers shouldn't use Heavy Turrets or atleast 1 Heavy Turrets so they can use Mortars to support the friedly ships.

2.Carriers should have repair turrets that can repair capital ships from long distance.

3.Let the carriers use Nano/Batts trading but remove Heavy Turrets from Carriers

4.Rework on Carriers, Change their stats and class to Battleship or Dreadnought but add them more heavy turrets and remove some of the secondary turrets

5.Carriers should have same stats with a Battlecruiser. Also it should carry same guns like Battlecruiser.


Any more ideas?

I like some of the ideas. the repair turret idea is nice. AI fighters has been discussed before and was pretty much rejected, no idea why i like the idea.

I think carrier shields should have a 20% faster regen speed than battleships, but only have light battleship turrets (if the above s true, ai fighters, repair turret etc)

you should be able to launch (depending on the type of carrier) a squad of bombers or w/e to help you fight other caps.

I think all ships should be able to bot feed to their respective class, Caps to caps, fighters to fighters, transports to transports. so the bot feed point is moot to me, the carrier shouldnt be allowed to feed fighters in space.