Temporarily buff heavy carriers until docking bays are fixed?

[Reid]

Were they nerfed when Docking Modules were introduced?

Highly doubt it

Yes. The Liberty carrier used to have 5 heavy turrets, 6 mediums and 1.1 million of armour points. Now it has 2 heavies, 4 mediums and 0.96 million of armour points. It does, however, have more secondaries which you can't use because shooting at snubs with a battleship is bad. And they aren't really a great defense against bombers either. Better than most battleships, but 2 medium-skilled bombers will still kill your carrier.

It was also given a completely new model, any nerfs that happened after the change would have been balancing.

Voted no for obvious reasons. Devs have more important things to do than give a temporary buff to ships, like fixing docking modules.

Do they really alter a battle that much? What's the difference between a ship coming in from 14K , a ship being with the carrier when the battle starts, and one undocking from the ship itself? Is saving a few seconds worth that much?