Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Juggernauts are the battle cruisers of battleships...

The size of a standard freighter these mammoth beast wield 8 large turret/missile slots

the juggernauts does not posses a jump drive.

and are able to field up to 5 "air superiority" class fighters.
to launch fighters the juggernaut must activate its fighter lanchbay catapult

note the catapult takes up mass amounts of energy to activate and such the juggernauts max speed is reduced by 85%. To compensate deference's are greatly increased...

note. air superiority fighters are a special class of fighter that can only be launched from Juggernauts... They are specially equipped to kill off enemy fighters and fighter/bombers...

The juggernaut will bridge the gap between sub capital and capital ship...

the Juggernaut will be much less skill intensive then a carrier/dread as there is no jump drive or use of capital mods...

the ehp will sit somewhere between a tier III bs and a carrier...

the names of the ships will be:

caldari:
Garuda:
The story of Garuda's birth and deeds is told in the first book of the great epic Mahabharata. According to the epic, when Garuda first burst forth from his egg, he appeared as a raging inferno equal to the cosmic conflagration that consumes the world at the end of every age. Frightened, the gods begged him for mercy. Garuda, hearing their plea, reduced himself in size and energy.

gallente:
Chaos:
In Greek cosmology, Chaos was a primordial state of matter from which the cosmos and the other gods emerged. For Hesiod and the early Greek Olympian myth (8th century BC), Chaos was the "vast and dark" void from which Nyx emerged

ammar:
She'ol:
It is a place of darkness to which all dead go regardless of the moral choices made in life and where they are "removed from the light of God". In the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) Sheol is the common destination of both the righteous and the unrighteous flesh. Job 7:9 "Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who go down to Sheol will not come back."

minmatar:
Hrym:
In Norse mythology, Hrym (Old Norse "decrepit") is a jötunn and the captain of the ship Naglfar according to the Gyl***inning. During the end time conflict of Ragnarök he will set sail from Jotunheim, transporting the legions of jötnar toward the battlefield of Vígríðr to confront the gods in the final battle

But it isn't a cap.

Seems okay but do we need more drones in the game? If it is to attack fighters and fighter bombers then isn't it best to have a fast locking time for locking drones? We'd have to target each fighter we want to kill?

Excuse my ignorance on how long it takes to lock a fighter/fighterbomber.

Wouldnt a juggernaught be better suited as a tier 2 dreadnaught?

Around my yards this class of ship is named the arsenel ship and weight classes as a super battleship.

So it's like a combat freighter specially designed to take out fighters and fighter bombers?

Interesting.

Uh.. he said dread, not carrier. >.>

instead of more drones, make each anti fighter system race oriented

galent - have drones
amarr - have fast tracking lasers
caldar - have missiles
minni - they toss pieces of their ship at them

Yeah I waiting it to move there before I tear more into it. However I almost want to call out plagarism as its nearly a rip off my own shipyard's escort carriers.

The escort carrier itself on default has no logistical capabilites and does have few gun slots.

25000 years in the future and im quite sure the naming commite would declare it a 'Space-supeiority fighter.' not atmospheric-superiority fighter.

Though I have seen Aero-space superiority but that was to signify the craft was amphibious to both space and atmosphers.

Also unless you are willing to sit down and write out entire charts and do I wouldnt spit out numbers at random but giving an verbal range or estimate is okay.

Assault would imply you are making this strike craft go some where, perferrably far away and eff something over while takeing a pounding.

Fighter mostly means attacking similar targets to self, (think of a boxer)

Interceptor is mostly what Fighters are except they are either effing fast or effing accurate over a long range.

Attack is basically a lighweight bomber meant for smaller targets.

Bomber is basically widespread destruction delivery.

Also becuase they're just fast and they do 'light' up a target they hit how are you going to get that coded? there is no way to gaurante 1 use per target ewar from an npc object yet.