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i understand balance, and in some of my posts you will find a much better balance approach to the supercarriers that wont make them sitting ducks while truly balancing their abilities. incuding something as simple as removing the bonus to deployed drones other than fighters and FB's. if you cant handle 5 med drones or out distance 5 heavy drones, you should not be flying against a dedicated DRONE boat.

its bad enough drone boats are the only ships in game that can have their entire DPS destroyed permanently, but to remove the chance of replacing them is like not allowing projectile ships to fit more than loads of ammo. the problem is the super blob, not the supers themselves. the drastic buff and now the drastic nerf is no more than chainsaw surgery and is bound to be just as successful. in other words, not very.

another change that would make supers better and usefull without being overpowered would be to let them provide a fleet command role, give them similar bonuses as the command ship with command ships limited to the grid and supers covering the entire system. or something different. let them have specialized offensive capital gang links that improve DPS rate of fire and things like that.

Lock time is irrelevant, unless you're suggesting that frigates respond to a supercarrier on the field by warping in and out literally every 20 seconds.

(hint, the frigate pilot doesn't know whether the supercarrier is locking them until the lock is completed).

Ok heres what CCP have done right & you should be commended for it:

+ Pinging aggro timers,yes commit to the fight.
+ Limit Supercarrier to Fighters/Fighter Bombers

This is what CCP have done wrong, but never the less it is a small price to pay in consideration to other mistakes & is there by aggreable to accept:

+/- Reduction of HP on suppercarriers is basically for the haters, all that needed changing for at least the time being was the above 2 + points.

Now this is what CCP have done drastically wrong & needs changing immediately:

-Drone bays on suppercarriers need to be able to carry an optimal amount of both Fighters & Fighter Bombers. So in other words at least 20 Fighters & 20 Fighterbombers.
This is common sence & logical to all but the most stubborn of fools. While reducing Supers flexibility, you have overstepped your mark & made Supers limited in offencive ploys. For with this rediculious implimentation Supers will as has been said again & again, only be used after the winter patch with Fighters & target painters in the Mids. They will only use Fighters for the most obvious of reasons.
If they are to be intercepted by a Subcap fleet, it is primary among all else that they be at least able to give a fight back. So Fighter Bombers take & indeffinate back seat due to this patch failure. CCP need to acknowledge this failure as soon as possible & as stubborn as we know you are,you need to sort it out & inform us that you wish to sort this stupidity out. This you MUST do as you obviously don't want to give back the skill points intwined with the learning of the Fighter Bombers skill.

I like the progress this is making.

I 100% agree with a set of shield implants that are similar to slaves, I do think a drawback of the set should be reduced passive recharge.

The nerf to remote Titan tracking is a great change, thank you.

Changes to Niddy and Hel are looking good.

CCP Tallest I think you really need to consider allowing supercarriers to have a full flight of 20 bombers AND 20 fighters, so 200000m3 bomber/fighter bay. It makes sense.

Also I think giving fighter bombers the range to hit a large POS with force field up should be considered, or allow drones to pass through the force field.

there is 3 character slots on each account. i suggest you train up more toons if you find it annoying to have to switch up implant sets so frequently.

also, from the discussions i've heard on the subject the reason the shield buffer set is needed so badly is because 1.5bil in implants makes the 4 armor supers take way more damage than their shield counterparts. you are probably right that their needs to be some sort of active armor implants.

I wish they would make it so there was an active implant set for both and that they worked on capital ships. maybe not supers but at least the carriers and dreadnaughts. it probably wouldnt be op in kspace since supers **** dps like its the day after thanksgiving. but, wormhole space would get pretty interesting thats for damn sure.

Yes you are right. CCP needs to make the things Dockable now that there nerfed into the ground as they needed to be but at the same time even Capital pilots need to be able to change ships now that it's not One ship to rule them all.

assuming they will wind up costing the same or more than slaves. i'm fine with a bc pilot sticking that much loot in their head. it will take a couple more volleys to get to the chocolaty nougat center is all

Ever hear of a CSMA?

You would have to be a complete moron to park your super in a CSMA.

Do you have any faction ships, like a Baalghorn or Nightmare? Maybe a nice officer fitted Machariel? You do? Good! Now put 10 of them in your corp's SMA and go do your own thing for a while.

Don't worry, they'll be ~just fine~ there.

CSMAs are about as juicy to pop as a CSAA.

Is this not happening anymore as per http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=4796&tid=1