Jumping Carriers, if you ask me. That would be a nice thing, weren't Carriers always a Jumping Platform in general? Well I know in the past it has been abused by Traders (screw you all) thus jumping got nerfed like hell. But I thought something that charges realy slow...
Well other than that actually I'm just looking forward to that thing Alley said. I thought Alley was supposed to do it? Or was it just her idea long ago and nobody was able to FLHook it? If we could finaly get the Docking Modules for that purpose, then actually Carriers would become very useful. It also depends on which category in "Role" you put your Carrier in. It could have features which would give it a purpose, a role it would function inside a fleet, maybe a Repair purpose as example?
Support Carriers having the ability to repair ships like Repair Ships? <- If not that, then I'd say give carriers ability to sell Nanobots and Shield Batts in their cargo bay, while other Caps can't then I'm sure you'll see a Carrier in almost any fleet deployed. Might make it too OP though or unballanced, dunno about you guys.
Of course maybe this all by the expense of loosing Heavies, or having like only ONE heavy for maybe a Mortar/Missile so it could support Dreads/Battleships.