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I dont quite get the nerf to carriers. The rest seems ok.

To be fair they haven't announced the hybrid rebalance yet in detail. I'll save judgment till then on this.

Perhaps instead of bringing only supercarriers to a fight against a bunch of hurricanes, you might consider mixing in some other kinds of ships that are better capable of dealing with the hurricanes? One might even surmise that the developers are encouraging fleets to bring a mix of different ship classes, such that winning every engagement isn't as simple as "bring a crapton of supercaps."

CCP did a good job here, i see alot of whiners complaining that supers are still good... yeah they are but not really vs sub caps, they are good anti-capitals which i believe is what they are designed for.

There is no point making super carrier completely useless, now they are vulnerable to subcaps and log off is fixed to they are vulnerable in a big way. taking scs out of the game totally would be a bad choice. now there is much more room for tactics on the battlefield. so stop whining thats what eve is about.

2 cains insta popped by a titan without using DD http://www.fatal-ascension.com/killboard/?a=kill_related&kll_id=48540

copy past link.This forum breaks it.

You obviously have no clue what you're talking about - we can field dozens at the drop of a hat.

Welpfleet works because the ships are cheap and we can get 200+ on the field pretty quickly. We are not RnK.

You're cute. Can I keep you?

Yeah, the fighter nerf combined with the drone bay nerf is too much. Capitals need to be able to affect the sub capital fight for there to be any point in fielding them other then reinforcing stuff, and if there's no point in being the first to deploy caps, neither side will do it since the other side can just ignore them if they don't have a larger capital force themselves, or kill them if they do.
If these changes go trough, the only thing worth dropping in would be a small number of triage carriers since any other type won't lock in time, and with fighter tracking being nerfed to less then a third of what it used to be, the carriers won't be able to do any damage to the sub caps either.

Keep the drone bays at their current sizes while limiting supers to only fielding fighters and fighter bombers without touching the tracking and see how it goes. If it's still too much, considering that fighters orbit in smartbomb range and the supers can't spit out endless streams of them like they can with the normal drones they have now, give supers a penalty to fighter tracking or damage that doesn't touch regular carriers (they're already balanced) at that point.

These ships are very expensive, skill intensive and requires a dedicated pilot to fly them, so please be careful and take small steps with this so you don't turn them back into the POS ornaments that they used to be.

This.

I am vaugely suspicious that dreads will still have any role with this change. Their dps is still nothing impressive and they're made of paper compared to supercap fleets: their sole use is sieging pos (which SC's can't touch). They're the wrong answer for a hub or a station, and I think that's a mistake. Their role now is pretty much glass cannons, but they're not damaging enough to fill that role well.