Carriers fullfilling the wrong role.

[shadowjman]

Carriers in space should be heavily armed, albeit defensively.
They are perhaps one of the most important ships in a fleet - lose it, and the fighter support is almost completely lost.

Space is a lot more dangerous than naval warfare.
And fighters are a lot more important.
The problem really lies where the Carrier is used as an attack ship and doesn't RP and defend itself.

But I maintain that they should be rather armed.

the carrier, you know giant boat with a flight deck...in all reality should not have 16 battleship guns. if anything it should have GB guns. or guns similar to. again it is not made for direct ship to ship combat. it is meant to call the shots from the side lines. other ships deal with whatever decides to come into its range.