They should bring in aircraft carriers. It should be as large as it can get without expanding past it's large landing pad. It should have be equipped with medium hard points that all together would match a python but due to them equally being dispersed along the hull of the ship one could never apply that power to a single target. It's best chance for survival against a target larger than a cobra is it's fighters. Due to its great size it can deploy three or possibly four at a time. A good strength of the aircraft carrier is that it has up to fifty percent more utility mounts in order to protect itself. It should be able to deploy at least 10 fighters at a time. The fighters should be able to bring down a Corvette in a reasonable amount of time. The aircraft carrier is built around it's fighters and so the fighters should be competitive. Thus I believe they should receive a buff in DPS. Normally aircraft carriers here on Earth are lacking in offensive power but have great defensive capability. The aircraft carrier should be exceptionally armored and it's utility mounts should be placed around it's hull for 360° protection. I would like any acknowledgement on this idea from frontier even if it's just to say it can't be done. Thank you.
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True enough.
But, I think he means something along the lines of an even bigger more lumbering Type 9 like vessel with multiple SLF bays and capable of launching 4 fighters at once, and with weapons better suited to point defense. Not sure how useful it would be in PvP with the game's current mechanics, and well, even 4 of our current fighters would be little more than a nuisance to one of the big 4 outfit for combat. They would just ignore the fighters and kill the lumbering poorly armed mother ship, which self destructs the fighters. Then again PvP is a pretty tiny portion of the game for what seems like the majority. Seems like something that might could be adapted for fighting Goids, and NPC's but I don't think I would want to bother with one. That does not mean they should not make it, just that I have no use for it and can't really think of a decent use for it that is not already covered by something better.
Let fleet carriers fill that role I say.
Lestat
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Ok let look at exploits
A wing of 2 to 3 players with for Carriers and 4 slf each. That around 13 slf One from a combat ship and 3 from a Carrier.
For the record, I think it is not that great an idea either, and there are a ton of other things I would rather see in the game than something that would prolly be a pita to implement. I just don't see the doom, except the 13 SLF in one instance. LOL, the game already has issues with half that in one instance, so you got a point there. I would never consider running one because, well even if you train up 4 pilots from harmless, that's 40%.
As far as it being an exploit because it would be over powered? I think tactics would have to change. But, well, if you try to solo PvP against a wing of big 4 ships, or a mix of FDL/Krait2/FedGunship and big 4's, unless they are incompetent, outfit completely wrong, or your meta is somehow massively superior to the entire wing, you are pretty much toast if you stay and fight. I don't think a wing of 3 carriers and one combat ship would be any different in that regard. PvP would remain optional, since you can still run, and they would still be under powered against a similar sized wing of big 4 ships. You would be right back to ignoring their SLF and going after the carriers and the combat ship. How long would something as big and lumbering, as a carrier would undoubtedly be, really last against properly PvP outfit medium and big ships when the target cant out run or out maneuver even a Type 10? Maybe launch your own fighters to run a screen as well. Tactics would change, not everything is an exploit, and really it would just be adding another meta.
I still don't want it, but I don't really care to get in the way of those that might.
As far as it being an exploit because it would be over powered? I think tactics would have to change. But, well, if you try to solo PvP against a wing of big 4 ships, or a mix of FDL/Krait2/FedGunship and big 4's, unless they are incompetent, outfit completely wrong, or your meta is somehow massively superior to the entire wing, you are pretty much toast if you stay and fight. I don't think a wing of 3 carriers and one combat ship would be any different in that regard. PvP would remain optional, since you can still run, and they would still be under powered against a similar sized wing of big 4 ships. You would be right back to ignoring their SLF and going after the carriers and the combat ship. How long would something as big and lumbering, as a carrier would undoubtedly be, really last against properly PvP outfit medium and big ships when the target cant out run or out maneuver even a Type 10? Maybe launch your own fighters to run a screen as well. Tactics would change, not everything is an exploit, and really it would just be adding another meta.
I still don't want it, but I don't really care to get in the way of those that might.