Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Love my Chimera, but unlike many who can fly one, I don't have a cyno alt and can't afford to float a second account for one. It would be nice to have something that can travel on it's own, something like a true mini-carrier. But then I got thinking of how to make it unique enough to deserve it's own place in the eve-universe and not just be a rehash of something else.

It would be a sub-capital ship, and like the black-ops battleships, have both the ability to jump and use gates. It should have the ability to equip covert cloaking devices and drone control units (allowing up to 7~9 drones total), with the unique ability to maintain drones activity when cloaked (but not able to issue new commands to them, recover them, etc). They should have enough drone space for 1~3 fighters with comparable bandwidth.

Like tier-three battle-cruisers, the stealth carriers are 'glass' ships -- low effective hit-points making them frail in combat situations, and much like the larger carriers, are slow to move and align making the vulnerable to hot-dropping and tackling. They would not have, for example, the 5% bonus to shield resistances per level, and would require substantial rigging or mid and low level modules to make them 'tough'.

Step 1: Land on field at long range.
Step 2: Assign drones/fighters to the interceptors that are engaging another gang.
Step 3: Cloak up.
Step 4: Watch.

OR

Step 1: Warp to a safe spot.
Step 2: Assign fighters to some frigates somewhere else in system.
Step 3: Cloak up.
Step 4: Wait/Alt-tab.

Your ship is overpowered. Plain and simple. You're basically creating a new black-ops ship that is better in almost every way... except that it can't use covert jump portals.

As for carriers and capital ships in general... the entire point behind the cyno system is that you are SUPPOSED to need help from an ally or corp/alliance mate. They are not meant to be "solo" ships.

Applies to a good chunk of Eve players.

This is the problem.

Being cloaked limits the risk, while very effectively boosting DPS of others.

You should have the drones be totally useless while you are cloaked. They should at minimum warp back to be on grid with you the moment you lose contact. Then they should just drift until you reestablish contact.
(They warp back to the last place they knew you were. Not useful)

If either clock were not unscannable or carriers had to be on field, this would be ill advised. So give them a weak signature and/or limited control range and now if your opponent has the time to dscan or probe the region they can find your carriers, bump them out of cloak and maybe have a chance.

Like the tier-3 battle cruisers these should probably be glass ships. Big drone bay, control system and support for covert ops cloak in a battleship package doesn't leave much room for hull and armor.

Asking for a "Glass Carrier" is not something that sounds like a good plan.

The battlecruisers you compared with, all have fast damage with risk up front and personal.

If you have the EHP it sounds like you want, your carrier won't survive long enough to be useful. Drones are not known for fast damage and high alpha strikes. You would only survive if noone bothered shooting you.

Now, lets say you don't need to be on grid, and can cloak freely.
Your hit points no longer matter, since you need to be found first.
Your fighters are assigned, your direct control being lost stopped having meaning at that point.

So long as you have a partner to direct your fighters, your DPS is delivered with no risk to you.

Please reconsider your design.

A smaller carrier like you described might find a place, just not with the risk immune power this one has.

But we already have Glass caps that are unbelievably vulnerable to the smallest of ships.... 30 noob frigates taking down a Dreadnaught is case and point....

Sure, and you make a good point, but she is specifying a sub capital here.

In theory it has far less EHP than the noobaphobic dread even!

And if people could shoot it, it would be a bad risk most likely.

pretty sure if you cloak with drones out they become abandoned.

Saw title and came hoping for a covert-cloaked, covert-beacon-using, no-fighters version of a carrier to use as a logistics platform. Left disappointed.