Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The idea is simple,
A sub capital ship about the size of an Orca, that can use jump gates, can go in high sec, and DOES NOT have a jump drive. It can field five fighters, or drones. Does not have a corp hanger or ship maintenance array. Cannot fit triage module. The point is to have a ship that can provide the gameplay style of a carrier pilot, without the capital ship. Cost should be between 400-500 million isk.

Should have a drone capacity of 25500, this allows for 5 fighters with 500 extra for drones.

The bonuses on it should be similar to the carrier as far as logistics is concerned, but not able to fit capital shield/armor/cap relays, instead allow them to fit BS/logistics sized modules with a bonus to range and maybe a bonus to cycle time. It should not have a large bonus to fighter damage. It is not designed to be a smaller package of equal kick-assery to full fledged carriers. More like a BS tank combined with a logistics ship and the ability to field a single flight of fighters.

Caveat: I am not a carrier pilot, I am a logistics pilot and I feel there is a gap here that could be fun to play. This thread is not a "give me cap ships before I am ready" or a "fix 0.0 fights by adding _____ ship" thread. It is just an idea that I think would be fun to play, so please keep the flames to a minimum. Also, the stats I posted are obviously open for discussion and balancing. I am just curious if a light carrier idea is viable and if people think it would be fun or not.

I can see your point, Ability to use more drones instead of using fighters due to the warping thing.

Could this also be solved by preventing fighters from warping in high sec? Not sure how this could be accomplished.

Outside of the "fun" argument, what role does this ship serve? How does it fit inbetween the current ships?

I love this idea.

That is all.

Good work.

If it does about the damage of a BS, and can do some logistics, with a commiserate price tag associated, how is that overpowered or unchallenged?

If a Battleship can fight it, then it is not "unchallenged"

Good Idea +1

I would love to fly one.
what about a T2 version? Since its not a capital we could get a T2 version of this setup too.

My thoughts.

For each lvl of the skill required to fly this ship, you gain the ability to fit one drone control unit.

This means at lvl 5 you're able to fit 5, for a max of ten drones, but DOES NOT use fighters.

With a full flight of 10 drones is should have comperable dps to battleships, and also have comperable tank.

That, or they can be fitted with logistics, but due to their shorter range than logis and less bonuses to rep output, they don't replace logis.

you want carrier like abilities in high sec

how about no?

Actually, I want it for roaming gangs in null, but it doesn't make sense to restrict it to null sec if it can jump through gates.

Dont assume that everyone who disagrees with you is a high sec care bear.

Your opinion regarding the idea has been made clear. You don't win points by continuing to make it over and over. Thanks for playing.

I've liked the idea for a while. The concept of a light carrier though should not be confused with the existing carrier, really I find it's closer to the supercarrier.

A ship designed to launch 5 drones or fighters and only that. Very few high slots (2 or 3 at most) and no other "carrier" abilities. Fighters cannot be assigned to other pilots, but can follow in warp to prevent what would become the ubiquitous highsec carrier alt.

I'm sure with a few small scripting changes, they missions could easily make assault frigate NPCs primary fighters over everything else as well.

Also, consider that they would be flying fully unbonused fighters at standard drone range.