Ships & Modules

Why do you keep saying the 'smallest' carrier? There is only 1 carrier. A SuperCarrier is not a carrier. A carrier is not a T1 carrier...it's a carrier. It's not a 'small' carrier, it's a CARRIER.

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

By all means, more power to you if you want to do it, everyone here has given excellent advice though, doing it solo is just asking to get ganked.

Carriers take a lot longer than 'a few seconds' to align and warp out. I can scan down a carrier with a probing alt and get point on you before you have a chance to warp out. You are greatly overestimating the GTFO ability of a carrier...they are SLOW.

And about the gates, etc...that does not stop you from doing missions in other systems...that's is what a cyno alt is for :). And before you say you don't have an alt...flying a cap without a cyno alt is just begging to die :).

Feel free to go do it anyway, just trying to make you realize how much risk is going to be involved...

By preventing me from using a stargate while in low security space, yes they are. They are forcing me to either have an alt, which I refuse to on the grounds that it's 100% cheating, or have friends, which defeats the point in this case. I want to go solo.

CCP has game mechanics that prevent me from doing so. I don't care if it's hard, as long as it's not actually impossible due to an arbitrary game mechanic that does not even serve any reasonable purpose.

As for actually probing me down before I can align out, maybe; but there's no way you'll get an entire fleet in and kill me before I can take our your tackle with a huge drone bay full of T2 light drones. With the new drone damage modules coming out, as well as more skill points into drones, that should not be a problem unless you brought along 20 battleships and 5 HICs.

Just because everyone uses an alt does not mean it's not cheating. It's allowed because if they were banned CCP would lose at least 20% of their revenue if not more. It's a business, financial decision that has nothing to do with making the game better, fun or fair. So I refuse to take part in it. If I wanted I could maintain 10 alts but that's not fun. I do not want to give myself unfair advantages, I am only annoyed right now when the game literally forces me to do so because of a flawed mechanic.

I do not want an advantage that both detracts from immersion (I am one character, not two or ten) nor do I want one to increase my potential damage or utility. This is not fair considering it costs more money or vast amounts of isk to maintain.

I suppose it doesn't matter too much to people who simply want to win and don't care about immersion in their games, but I do. I go at it alone, with my single character; and try my best. That's fun for me.

I am not very keen on the notion that you can actually buy isk with real life money either. Rich people irl should not get an advantage in an MMORPG.

It's a Sandbox. If I want to use a ship that is not in the way it is intended to, it may not work great, or might, the point is that in a sandbox the option should be there.

I am not asking for any additional power, no different perks. The only thing I ask is to be able to travel out of a system without needing an alt or a friend. In a normal carrier, not a super carrier, this is not unreasonable. A carrier doesn't take that long to train for nor is it prohibitively expensive like a super carrier.

Op, stop whining. And learn about a ship before you start criticising CCP's decisions. Makes you look like a moron.

Solo lvl 5 carriers will be dead within a week of someone realising you are in system. And since you plan on staying in a station system, there will always be someone there. I give you 3 days max before someone figures it out.

Anyone can scan you down to closest point and then it takes a single probe scan to get you at 100%. thats 10 secs. A carrier needs more than 30 secs to align and warp. You know a t2 frig can point you and hold you down? Your fighters will do **** damage to them. If its an into, your fighters can't even catch him.

Lets say, you have heavy neuts or ecm drones, i can bet you he will have friends waiting since you obviously were missioning with neutrals in local and you won't know who is his friend or not. Forget missing when local is clear. Its a station system, you can never do that.

People give you advice/tips for a reason. Its cuz they have done it and know if its possible. You want to risk it, then good for you. Stop whining about game mechanics if you can't adapt to them.

Even if you are allowed to jump gates, how many gates do you think you can make it into low sec without a scout? Frigs and bombers get caught in camps all the time you know.. A jump drive is the best thing for travel. Get a mission, get a cyno alt into dest and jump to it when its empty.

Try using one in SISI before you buy it.

Once again, a person new to the game wants the game to be changed to suit their desires. Gets kind of annoying. EVE was not designed as a solo game.

Sorry.

Sandbox does not mean you can do anything you wish. We can't land on a planet and race cars. We can't send marines to board an enemy ship. We can't invent completely new technology on our own. There are limitations. You have just encountered one. Sorry, but tough luck.

As for your whole immersion logic, so play 2 characters is a no no, but a stargate should be able to transport a ship of equal mass as the gate? And continuing with immersion, even if such would work, wouldn't any faction controlling the stargate also wish to prevent the movement of capital assets through their space considering the dangers of such assets? honestly it sounds like you want things your way, but any other way which breaks your view of immersion is cheating, which seems to be very selective logic.

Move into a wormhole and/or make a cyno alt if you're set on doing this. CCP hasn't prohibited you from running crap in low sec in a carrier. They have just made it so capital ships require some support (i.e., friends or alts) to move around, in exchange for their very powerful ability to move through multiple systems instantly in a single jump. Also, just as a side note, the most dangerous part of low sec is when you're moving through a gate. You can almost always redock in a camped station if you know what you're doing, and you can avoid probers pretty easily if you are diligent with your dscan. It's jumping through a gate with no vision on the other side, especially in a slow ship, where you're going to run into the most trouble.

Not all low sec space is uber dangerous and you certainly could use a carrier for low sec missions/anoms. It's just overkill for anything you're likely to face as far as low sec PVE content. If you bugger out of the site as soon as you see a single combat probe on scan, you won't die. However, you will attract unwanted attention and you may be at a greater risk of someone camping your sites in a cloaky ship. That doesn't mean it's not doable, just that it's more difficult.

Obviously concord would not allow capitals to jump into high security space. I never suggested they be allowed to do that.