Skill Discussions

Capital Repair Systems 4 will do.
Capital ships to 3 will do. You won't notice the extra agility.
Advanced Spaceship Command 5 is a prerequisite for Capital Ships, so that is a no-brainer.

Don't forget about fighters.

You may want to add Capital Shield Emission Systems, for repping POS shield.

Doing C5 and C6 sites we never used triage (and it makes you more vulnerable), but it is useful for repping a POS. You also can't use drones or fighters in triage, so it takes longer to clear sites.

One can stick the tail of the carrier out of the forcefield, and assign fighters to another ship for site clearing. I don't recommend taking a carrier into a site in C1-C4, and only C5+C6 for escalations.

Keep in mind that an Archon cannot rep the shield of a large tower, but they can rep the shield of modules. Capital Remote Hull is primarily only useful for repping POS modules (other capitals in hull rarely survive). The Nidhoggur is the best POS repper, but pretty meh otherwise.

I really recommend Jump Drive Calibration 4 and Jump Drive Operation 4 if you ever plan to move the carrier out of the wormhole (unless you built it in a C1 to C4). Jump Drive Calibration 5 is worth training for any ship with a jump drive, and I wish it was a prerequisite. FYI, Jump Drive Calibration 1 is a prerequisite for a jump freighter, if you ever want to get into one.

Finally, once you are skilled for a carrier, the only major requirement to pilot any other carrier is the racial battleship 5 (and the pricey carrier skill book of course).

Thanks guys! thats awesome info. Guess Ill adjust my skill plan to add fighters. Again thank you very much

Okay, I totally disagree with you on that one. We found them extremely effective for both C5 and C6 sites.

The only way they are useless is if you use triage to do sites, which isn't necessary. Our fleet consisted of:

* 8 to 10 remote-rep Tengu with passive resists and TP.
* A Chimera as primary repper with 2x reps (first escalation).
* Two tracking and DPS fit Revelations (second and third escalations).
* A Chimera as DPS and secondary repper with 1x rep and 1x cap transfer (fourth escalation).
* An off-grid Tengu Siege Warfare booster.
* A Noctis and Hurricane (codebreaking & archeology) cleaning-up the previous site while we cleared the next.

Pilots would switch from Tengu to capitals when there were 3 BS left (time enough to warp to POS, re-ship, and return). The primary repping Chimera would just stay in the carrier and assign fighters, so he could lock the whole fleet.

When doing sites through the static, of course we only used the first Chimera. Not using triage has actually saved the carrier from attack while doing a site [a rather large fleet from a wormhole we were too lazy to close].

Fighters under Sleeper attack will instantly leave grid when assigned to the off-grid clean-up crew (the Hurricane could rep them if necessary), even when webbed and pointed.

We had 3 to 4 people controlling 2 to 4 accounts (makes for a healthy per person earnings split). It took us under 14 minutes per radar / mag site (less for anoms). We left w-space when it got so boring, because it had become way too easy.

Sure, if you don't need the carrier for repping.

My advice is slanted by being a 0.0 dweller, but if the entire goal is escalations and repping, I would do the following.

Self-Rep to 4.
No triage.
Energy Emission to 5, but 4 works too.
Remote Rep to 5, but 4 works too.
Cap ships 3. Don't need it any higher than what is required to fly.
Carrier 5. Extra drones/fighters, and the racial bonus is too nice to pass up.
ASC 5 is pre-req for capships anyway.
Drone Interfacing 5. Pre-req for carrier anyway.
JDO 1. Pre-req anyway.
Biology 4-5. DRUGS!
The 2 skills that make drug side-effects not so bad. 4-5.
ThermoDynamics 5.
The 2 repair paste skills 4.

Like was stated above, if you are never going to remove it from the hole don't bother with jump skills. If you are, JDO5, JFC4, JDC5.

"You are doing it differently than me, so you are wrong."