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Are FAXes supposed to have drone bays? I'm not sure if "carriers" here includes FAXes.

sooo the FAX slot layouts are not the same as the devblogs.....intentional, a mistake or have i missed something?

(such as 3 mids on the apostle)

I would like to suggest the following changes:

Background:
Currently the damage potential of fighters if all criteria is met (webs,fitting,paints) of a supercarrier is 6600 (maxxed out nyx) and a thanatos can pull 3600.

Currently on sisi a thanatos can pull something like 4k ish roughly with it's three groups, and a supercarrier can pull roughly 4.3k ish.

Problem:
The problem is that supercarriers and carriers can launch the same amount of light fighters with small differences in ship damage bonus's, this brings the subcapital damage potential of a supercarrier way down relative to a normal carrier.

Solution to the problem:
Increase light fighter damage by a flat 33%

Decrease allowed light fighter groups to 2 on normal carriers. and keep the 3 on supercarriers.

this will put the balance of power back in it's place and will also promote the new racial carrier bonus's that apply to support fighters and give people an incentive to use them more.

I like it.

i see no issue with a supper carrier not being able to do massive amounts of damage to sub caps when compaired to a carrier they still blow carriers out of the water when it comes to attacking capitals

remember you also have the burst e-war utility over standard carriers as well and cost should never be a balancing factor as 1 isk is worth more to x than it is to y

I'm not sure if they've gotten around to resizing capitals yet, but carriers need to be much bigger. When a Machariel is nearly the size of a carrier yet the carrier can haul 2 of them, there's a problem.

Ideally carriers will be put just under the size of dreads and supers put just under the size of titans

No today it was 2.5 dmg and velocity for minm 2.5 damage and hit points for gal just 4% tank resists for amarr and caldari

The caldari now has an anemic capacity of sub 70k fighter storage while minm and galleries are over 80 these numbers are with fighter hanger skill maxed it a has changed since carrier bonuses were first altered

To be honest the dps isn't even the main issue is the limited fighter capacity that will make the biggest difference

Hell the two carriers with the largest fighter bays also are the two with fighter survivability bonuses

EDIT

They all also get 5%optimal to racial Ewar fighters

Round 2 feedback:

Projected Bursts using the radial targeting is not good, and I can't tell if they're actually doing anything when I finally get it to 'fire'. I think it would be best if we got a targeting sphere (like a warp disruption bubble) that we could move around to the spot we wanted. Then we click to activate and anything within that sphere suffers the effects until the ships within it move out of the sphere or the duration ends (which should be a long duration to make these weapons worthwhile). Also, 20% on the sensor damp doesn't seem worth it. Even with the nyx bonus, I'd probably use something else.

Heavies are using radial targeting for their MJDs. This is really hard to use, and often times doesn't even fire. When it does, the results are often seeing the heavies go way off from where I wanted them. I think they need a different special ability tbh.

Weapon targeting projection burst should affect missiles too. Or maybe give us one specifically for that?

Networked sensor array - I like the 50% to sensor strengths but the rest of the module doesn't make sense. Supers can insta-lock onto max 14 targets at the moment. So 900% to scan resolution and +2 additional targets doesn't do anything. And it cancels out our burst projectors. I like the idea of a Fighter vs Projector choice, but it needs to make a bit more sense.

Fighter Hanger capacity - Needs to be 135k for Amarr, Caldari, and Min, 150k for nyx. Reasoning: We have 2 types of heavies, 2 types of lights, a selection of support for each race, and then different damage types to consider on top of that. Given that you need X amount for a full fighter squad, plus a few extra to replace losses, 100k isn't nearly enough room. Since we're limited on number of squadrons, and the situations we run into dictating a change in fighter type will require waiting for deployed squads to slow-boat back to us, giving us a reasonable bay size increase shouldn't be unbalanced.

Would like to know the thinking for the 7.5% damage bonuses instead of 10%. That damage bonus is what made Nyx's appealing given it's much less tanky than the other races, who have more tank slots on top of the hull resistance bonuses. 12.5% damage bonus is weak when compared to the significantly higher HPs of the tanky ships. I think the difference should at least be a drone damage mod (20%).

5% to fighter durability is ok, I guess. But not too exciting. Don't think anyone would choose a nyx specifically for this.

Supers should be able to field more lights than regular carriers. I don't like these limits in the first place because they don't add to game play. Just let the players decide how many of their launch tubes to fill with what type of fighter, and balance the fighters around that idea.

The 400% bonus to Plates/Extenders puts these in a great spot, in line with plates of other ship sizes. Good change.

Not sure the gang links belong on supers. Don't think they will see a lot (or any) usage. I have full leadership skills but wouldn't put a link on in place of FSU, smartbomb, cloak, or burst projector.

I can't abandon fighters at the moment. So if I leave the field and can't go back, I'm screwed.

Speaking of which, fighters need to warp...Back when you wanted to take warp away from fighters on TQ during the drone assist changes, we fought to keep fighters warping and stated that it was a unique feature that should be preserved. You guys agreed. So lets get the warping again please, even if the only warp they do is to follow us offgrid.

I tried out a leviathan (titan level 4)- it's at 900DPS with lvl 5 capital guns. This doesn't seem right. I think titans should equal 1 or 1.5 seiged dreads worth of damage. (maybe let them seige?)


Wall of text done, hope this helps some.