Carriers fullfilling the wrong role.

[Tenacity]

This is all mute point, since carriers in this game are not capable of fielding fighters and bombers, and the devs (well, igiss and admins, more like) have made it abundantly clear that player docking and launching npc fighters isnt going to happen.

Carriers in disco are only carriers in name and RP, outside of that they're balanced like battlecruisers and battleships, and it's probably going to stay that way.

The Order Light carrier has 18 cruiser class guns. 18! Top a battleship shield with that, and I can take on other cruisers no problem. But, I only have so many bats/bots.

The Osiris has 12 battleship guns. It can still handle a Light carrier, but the carrier is able to put up a very strong fight. It's also agile, boasting a Thruster that most other ships flying with battleship shields don't get to enjoy. But that fits, since it's "Light" right?

Even a poorly flown osiris can stomp an order LAC into the ground with relative ease. The carrier might scratch the battleship's hull a bit, but you're never going to win one on one.

Now if you honestly want to change how the order LAC is balanced, well... the only option is to turn it into a full fledged battleship, which I'm against since we already have one available. The Geb fills a different role than the Osiris right now, and it does that role fine. The only advantage in turning it into a battleship is that fewer players will fly one, due to higher cost.

so having a large transportation vessel capable of killing a battleship is very unreal to me.

Once more, the Order LAC is not capable of solo killing any battleship in the game. The only exception is if the carrier is kitted all for anti-cap weaponry, and the battleship has nothing but solaris turrets... and face it, that doesnt happen often.

Carriers are not meant to be on their own, they are filled with hundreds of ships, or supposed to be. Seeing a Carrier with escorts from its hull would make sense in game, yet you'll see them flying on their own doing whatever with just their guns.

Once more, it is not currently possible to launch NPC fighters/bombers, and it is not feasible to always have dozens of players in smaller ships with you. Maybe you'd like to suggest to the devs how to raise the server cap to 2000 players so we can do this, eh? Didnt think so.

The fighters can be RP'd, I often do this with my carrier, but past that you cannot balance the ship on the idea of always having other players around, because there will not always be other players around. This is why carriers are balanced light bc's and battleships, currently - because any other method would leave them underpowered in every situation that you can come up with.


Sorry, but you're going to have to deal with it, unless you've got the source code for freelancer in your back pocket.

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