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It is not the only faux. The Amarr and Caldari one have terrible powergrids for the new mods and you keep asking yourself, is this how a triage carrier should be fit - with 2 remore reps because you can hardly fit 3 or 4.

Seems odd with 6 highs (well 5 if you go triage).

The drone bonus is okay, I like it but I liked my triage Chimera a little better than the Minokawa. The range with triage is just lol and you die horribly by capping yourself out.
So fitting a battery and a cap booster comes to mind but they have ridiculous powergrid requirements and your new capital Osprey with a capital prop mod has no powergrid left to fit neither a battery or a cap booster.

As Crazy said those capital one-time protection mods against dumbdays don't work at all - well they do, the commit suicide by activation and and are useless.

The carriers (the combat-ish ones) have okay powergrid and cpu. You can fit them properly but a squad of slightly damaged light fighters or support or heavy ones (yes I did put some on an Aeon) result in zombie threads (coding term) and do not respond to any command anymore.
They become zombie or Schroedinger's drones, as in they are either destroyed or not, depending how you look at it.

All the 6000 trillion citadels in the same solar system (oh man if only New Eden had more than one..) make the client become a picture show.

I think it would be okay if fauxes have a real remote rep range. That tech 2 long point range is - let's say too little for a 2 billion boat.
EVE will not break when fauxes get proper powergrids.

And don't get me started on that "fighter" versus "fighter" combat. The meta will be that every mothership will have a billion of Equites to shoot the opponent fighters of the field and one Siren to pin something forever and one heavy or light fighter squad to shoot the other one.
Final thought, there will be a huge sale of nyxes, aeons and wyvers soon-ish since you can nano a hel and why would you fly any other boat?

Also Thanatoses since they lose half the damage bonus, which was just barely enough to choose them over Archons or Chimeras in some cases. Also with Nidhoggurs getting the same damage bonus as well as significantly better ship and fighter speeds, there's no real reason to use a Thanatos unless you're expecting your fighters to get shot just a little but not a lot.

It seems like it would be better to have only the Thanatos and Nyx get damage bonuses (and significantly larger bonuses like 30% to make it a viable alternative to a 25% tank bonus) and give the Nidhoggur and Hel the speed/agility/sig radius bonuses Minmatar are famous for.

Oh yes please that would make my weekend!

By the way, I haven't seen any Cap Booster 3200 charges on the market yet, nor various new capital modules like the Capital Capacitor Booster... Or has that already been mentioned somewhere I haven't seen? My Nina's capacitor is rather useless without that.

(Other missing items include things like Capital Ancillary Armor Repairer, Capital Cap Battery, Capital Ancillary Remote Shield Booster, e

Sure, it has more space for fighters so the people who kill you have more to loot.

Edit: As for the Nidhoggur, I don't think you realize how powerful speed and the ability to dictate range can be. There's a common trait between a lot of widely used ships like the Garmur, Svipul, Orthrus, Omen Navy Issue, Cynabal, Oracle, Tornado, Sleipnir, Machariel, and Barghest. That trait is that they have enough range and speed to control the engagement against targets they choose to fight, and their speed allows them to get away from targets they can't win against. Admittedly that's a little less effective at capital level, but the Nidhoggur still has a significant mobility advantage against other capitals, and even some battleships. The fighter speed bonus is also effectively a bonus to range as well as effectiveness against smaller ships that can outrun other carriers' fighters.

I do not see why fighters should have such a long cooldown on their microwarp drive if you can use a scram to turn it off

Poked around a bit and saw an incredibly slow RoF on XL Torp launchers, and after it being pointed out to me on Reddit, saw an 80% RoF speedup for the Siege Module II, making launchers usable in Siege.

Will the Levi see a role/skill bonus for RoF so it doesn't have to deal with (for me) an ~88s RoF? I'm worried that in its current state, that'll just encourage folks to never fit launchers on a Levi, and just go with a pure auxiliary fit (Smartbombs, neuts, a DD, and/or cloak) rather than something more.. standard, you could say?

No idea if this is true for other dreads/Titans at all, I didn't check.

Indeed. It really feels like if support fighters are to get any use the carriers either need a dedicated launch tube for them or they need to be absurdly powerful to the point they'd be considered OP. Sacrificing 1/3 of the DPS is just far too high of a price for what they do.

Also, it seems really weird that the Networked Sensor Array gives a weapon timer when it's basically a very powerful Sensor Booster. It doesn't directly do anything aggressive that should prevent docking or refitting. It just lets you lock faster and more reliably.

Unless they get a huge bonus to their type of support fighter and one of them proves to be very overpowered, that won't determine what carrier gets used or which ones people will train. The slot layout and other hull bonuses are far more important. For example, if you're in an armor fleet and want to live, you're going to pick an Archon regardless of other bonuses. Same for Chimera in a shield fleet. If you don't care about survival, you'll pick the Nidhoggur for that extra speed//range and damage.

Having a bigger bonus to the racial support fighters wouldn't be enough to significantly sway that decision unless it's very powerful, which I only see happening for the neut or ECM fighters, and those two carriers will be overused already.

The only balanced way I can see of making the racial support fighter bonus a big enough to influence the carrier choice would be if they unlocked a special fourth ability only usable by that carrier. That would probably only give the Archon and Chimera an even bigger advantage though since neuts and ECM seem more abusable than point or web.

Fair enough, but in what situations would it be worth dropping a squad of lights to use a support squad? The only thing I can think of is if you really need webs because somebody messed up the fit and/or fleet composition.