Carriers

[jammi]

Really carriers have just been used as an excuse to round out various faction's ship lines to plug gaps that needed to be filled - so Bretonia and Liberty got a heavy battleship and Rheinland got a medium one.

There is literally no difference in utility between a carrier and a battleship - it's no different than the minor fluff distinction between a cruiser and a destroyer. Within the context of Freelancer itself, they're an utterly ridiculous ship class anyway considering standard battleships are already carriers, but there's neither here nor there. (I have a burning hatred for the Bretonian carrier in particular, which should never have been included, both looking terrible and making absolutely no sense.)

It's basically impossible to make carriers mechanically sound using conventional balancing, so unless Alley releases her carrier update, it'd honestly be best to just leave them as battleship variations. I'd be inclined to say no to any of these changes.

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