Ships & Modules

1- NSA. it's not useless it depends what you use it for:
fast lock on targets leaving your mid slots free? so you can fit omnidirectional links and apply better damage with your fighters etc

2- fighters are different from each other, same thing as for drones. go through the data and find the difference! may it be speed, shield/armor tanked, tracking, damage type etc.
(if you can't tell the differences by yourself you shouldn't probably fly a carrier.... not yet)

3- dunno, you get the initial aggro?

1- i mean...... if you use your carrier in pvp it's kinda difficult to web someone long enough with the carrier, you usually leave that role to fast tackels...
if you use your carrier to rat then ok, but there are the support fighters that can solve that problem for you... so you basically want to oneshot rats and so keep locking fast new targets.

2- again it depends: if you are using it for ratting then choose the main damage type for those rats.
if you are using them for pvp you probably want the ones with better speed/tracking for small targets and the right damage type's drones for BS to apply more damage

3- yes, lately people keep telling that aggro keep going on fighters... probably it's working as intended... need to fit a RR and rep your fighters

For the last time the NSA is the National Security Agency. This agency is there to not spy on the American people and violating the Patriot Act all day but to protect the American people from foreign and domestic terrorism.

They even have a website www.nsa.gov.


It has nothing to do with EVE Online.


The network sensor array on the other hand does. If you want to talk that module, write it down. I do too.

1) Carrier, being capitals, have really terrible scan resolution. This makes it take a very long time to lock on to small ships like frigates and fighters. One of the roles of carriers is to counter the fighter squadrons of other carriers and supercarriers.
With a low scan resolution, by the time you lock up enemy fighters they may have already done significant damage.
The NSA was presumably introduced to counter this. It increases the scan resolution by a huge margin allowing you to lock up enemy fighters and drones fast enough to be able to tell your own fighters to attack them before they do too much damage.
Unfortunately a higher scan res also makes you lock subcapital ships even faster. To prevent this from being OP (ie insta-locking gatecamps) the NSA disables offensive e-war.
Most carriers will fit this so that they can lock onto small targets in a reasonable amount of time. Some carriers still skip them in order to be able to use target painters, foregoing lock time in favour of better damage application.
Personally I prefer to fit the NSA and put omnidirectional tracking links in the mids where the TPs would have gone, they have a similar effect this way.

2) There is a spectrum of light fighters from Gallente => Caldari => Amarr => Minmatar
As you go from left to right the fighters do less damage but move faster. Roughly speaking Minmatar fighters do 20% less damage but move 20% faster.

3) Make sure you train Light Fighters to at least iV, and drone durability to V. Flying a Thanatos gives you a bonus to fighter EHP too.

you can't use web and grappler with an NSA at the same time...
so if you choose:
- NSA, your option is to use 2 light fighters plus 1 support fighter (web fighter)
- not NSA, then you are free to use any EWar module you want, web and target painter too.

Because if you get caught in a carrier and you dont have support available immediately to help you, you are probably already dead. You dont want to learn how to counter tackle, you dont want to be tackled ever period. In fact, if a hostile lands on grid with you, your using a carrier wrong for ratting. A hostile should NEVER land on grid with you.

Killing the first on grid is many times not going to matter, Unless he is a terrible cyno dropper or you are dealing with complete noobs at pvp. Gangs run multiple points on multiple ships. And are usually prepared for the case of catching a ratting carrier. Your odds of surviving when someone lands on grid is slim to none. You should of safed up before they even entered system.

Carriers are squishy and die quickly. If you last more than 2 minutes against a decent gang i would be very impressed.

In short, dont ever get caught ratting in a carrier because once you do the only thing thats going to save you is a bloody miracle.

[Archon, Berserker]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Damage Control II
CONCORD Capital Armor Repairer
Capital Ancillary Armor Repairer, Nanite Repair Paste

Heavy Stasis Grappler II
True Sansha Stasis Webifier
Capital Capacitor Booster I, Cap Booster 3200
Capital Cap Battery II

Fighter Support Unit I
Fighter Support Unit I
Fighter Support Unit I
Heavy Infectious Scoped Energy Neutralizer
Heavy Infectious Scoped Energy Neutralizer

Capital Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Capital Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Capital Capacitor Control Circuit II

Templar I x9
Templar I x9
Templar I x9

This is the fit I run now. I can do PvE well enough in it since I only need 1 rep most of the time, so neuts and stasis are intended to keep me safe from tacklers. But with the latest comments I see that this idea is not going to work. What would you recomend if my aim with the carrier is to have a fit that can do PvE, but can be droped to help out a subcap fleet against other subcap fleet should the need be. The subcap fleets in question are small, up to 20 man fleets with mostly cruisers/BCs and maybe a couple BSes. Please keep in mind that my skills atm are low so capital T2 stuff is out of the question.