Carriers idea

[Aazalot]

The thing with Carriers atm is they dont fit a purpose within the mod since docking bays sort of dont work (at least as far as i know they dont). Personally i think carriers SHOULD be second to battleships in regards to weapons maybe not so much hull strength but they arnt meant to be front line vessels.
Rather then using Real life an example look at other games

In the homeworld series most notably Homeworld 2 the Carrier is a full on support vessel that builds and maintains wings of snub craft it has a high amount of hull because it acts as a secondary command ship but its only weapons are anti snub cannons.

If you look at Strike suit Zero the carrier Arcadia which is your base is a powerful capital ship with some anti capital weapons but again was still outgunned by full on battleships for it has 2 Anti cap weapons and battleships had 6 however the battleships relied on on the Arcadia along with its Anti Fighter weapons and Fighter wings to deal with enemy wings.

You even see a small example in Starfox/Nintendo, The greatfox is essentially a carrier command ship it has 2 big ol cannons which are powerful but thats all it has, when pitted against battleships it was out classed it was up to the Arwings to do the grunt work.

I think that Carriers should be hard to kill because they are in essence mobile bases, however i think they shouldn't pack as much firepower as a front line battleship, they are meant to be the 2nd line behind battleships and battlecruisers, supplying supporting long range fire and fighters. Of course as i said at the beginning of my post right now Carriers cant really do anything with fighters due to the docking module issues so its more finding a way to let them fill their role maybe the drones are the key to it as long as they are done right, however that being said, this does mean that a way to counter said drones properly also needs to be considered. I think in general Carriers are okay, they just need to be put into their role properly.