Carriers fullfilling the wrong role.

[Tenacity]

Here's the role I envision for Carriers. We have an unused gun class, right, 6? Well. How's about we turn the Carrier into a Fighter Support Vessel? Two Battleship turrets, four Gunboat turrets, and however many Class Six turrets, which will mount high-speed, medium-range, high-refire weapons - basically an optimized Solaris - and improved Flak. It can mount a pair of whatever Battleship guns it feels like - probably missiles for taking Gunboats, I'd say, Gunboat turrets for the anti-fighter missiles, and the rest for anti-fighter in general. So, in essence, we've optimized the Carrier for righter support - it now can't hope to take on anything bigger than a lone cruiser, but anything smaller than that had better learn to riverdance really, really fast. Keep it classed as a Battleship with the exorbitant Battleship prices and we'll have ourselves a new purpose as a fine support vessel for the current pseudo-Battleships.

Of course, this is all conjecture, and I'm sure somebody will come along in five minutes and tell me how wrong I am, but let's say that this is the direction of thought I think people ought to take in this matter. Think up new things! Instead of worrying about being dockable or spawning fighters, think of how we can repurpose them to help assist smaller ships in a larger tactical situation.

Then make a new shipclass for that role - frigates or the like. No need to reason three perfectly good ships just to try something new.

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