Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Some tentative names I came up with late last night for the possible three classes of carriers that are considered the primary ones.



Assault Carriers:
Amarr: Rapture
Caldari: Shrike
Gallente: Chaos
Minmatar: Thunderstorm


Support Carriers:
Amarr: Saint
Caldari: Albatross
Gallente: Hermes
Minmatar: Gale


Escort Carriers:
Amarr: Disciple
Caldari: Songbird
Gallente: Asag
Minmatar: Gleipner

Personally, that's alot of new hulls for them to add, I can see them viable adding a carrier type hull using the teir 3 battleships and making it a tech 2 ship.

Though I'd much rather see them create an entire new ship line for it =D

i like this escort carrier thing :) ccp do it, just do it

You mean for the Tech 2 versions?

The full stats are posted on page one for the tech one versions, and the post I made about the tech 2's outlines most of the differences between them and the originals.

Bump

I have been behind this idea many a time, i think i even started a thread or at least lead a thread on this a year or so ago.

I still think they shouldnt be allowed in high sec unless their deagro timer is made longer. cant drop a few caps on them in high sec to try to finish them before they dock.

I know CCp hasent released it yet, but i think the micro jump drive would be interesting on these.

also we dont need a mini dread, they need to buff marauders.

But yeah CCP makes these, there is a huge hole in ship classes between BS and carriers

Why use small reppers?

If you can use 10 large rep drones, why use a small or medium repair module?

Especially why on a battleship+ size ship?

IF you want them to be useful, then create a logistics destroyer designed to repair frigs-crusiers.

Everything else you said is already in the OP.

BUMP

Loius Woo, i do really like your more streamlined proposal if the original escort carrier proposal. being:
capital burst only remote reps
large local reps
small SMA
no fighters
bonuses to drones
more than 5 drones out at one time

i would add that the CHA and cargo should be kept small enough so that the carrier cant fly with a different fit in its cargo that it can refit, this biiig reduction is a tradeoff for a larger dronebay and capital rr slots. idea being that it can serve as a base for a fleet to retrofit itself. but if it can refit to cope with its surroundings then it wont be seen with BS fleets, it'll be seen in blobs of itself.


i would like to point out tho....

i think it covered several areas very well and was a well rounded idea. Then someone threw u an idea of a family of mini carriers and u went to town on them, even to the point of changing your initial well developed idea for the support carrier for the worse (imho).

keep the support carrier with burst only reps, keep the small sma for refitting on the fly, dont use fighters, have drone bonuses to help drones apply damage or effects sooner (its the major annoyance of drone boats)
and if/when a CCP dev does grace us with their presence, see if its at all possible that it can have some auto repair for drones in the dronebay. after all, drones do get their shield hp back after being in the drone bay for a while.

keep the purity and elegance of this design, dont try and brainstorm some crazy family of mini carrier class that will be seen as a really big and dev-expensive project.

soz i just re-editted my post there! lol! but gives u some more interesting things to consider!