Carriers fullfilling the wrong role.

[Tenacity]

But that's the thing, it isnt going to work until game mechanics permit carriers from filling their true role without needing two dozen players around to help them. Like I said, when I can launch a swarm of NPC fighters and bombers to deal with my enemies, that's the day you can take my guns away, and even then those npc's would have to be on par with most guard system npc's to be worth anything in combat against other players.

Numerous arguments have been made against that though, ranging from "it will cause extra server lag" to "it's too difficult to add" to "It will make them overpowered", so chances are that kind of change is not happening any time soon, and neither is a rebalance of carriers based on nothing but the fact that they're called carriers.

What you're looking for is a repair ship, as far as I'm concerned. We already have one of those, good luck flying it.

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