Ships & Modules

You mentioned being blobbed when flying around in bc gangs, I don't think you understand what that refers to when we're talking about there being a cap on field. If you want something to let you hit above your weight class bring your bc gangs with guard/ aug support, or refit the lone carrier for triage. Someone brought this up about a week ago and everyone who explained this to him was told to shut up because they didn't understand he was thinking outside the box. We get it, it's how we get free cap kills.

That said, feel free to try it.

Most people get a big fat stiffy from the thought of killing a carrier. Most won't go 10+ jumps to try and kill a t3, especially since once they're there, it's probably long gone. Someone shouts that they have a carrier tackled in system X, then every pilot within 15 jumps of X will start heading that way. T3s are good because they offer decent performance along with the ability to GTFO. You will lose your carrier a dozen times before a well flown T3 gets blapped.

It's also about KBs. The same reason that people love getting their name on a cap kill is one of the big reasons it's a bad idea to fly one. Your KD ratio on any killboard is going to be ****, and you're going to lose more isk than you kill.

And while we're here, lets look at the actual viability of a carrier, once you take out the triage:
1250 DPS on a thanny with perfect skills, golly gee that sure is swell, pity a blaster domi outDPSs it by a fairly wide margin, as do pretty much every gank fit BS in the game, while being more mobile, less expensive, and less of a blob magnet. Sure you get some range, but you're so slow, as are your fighters, that the actual applied DPS is going to be about the same anyway.
The ability to tank more incoming DPS is LESS valuable than the ability to mitigate it and/or GTFO when it gets to be too much, because eve is very much a numbers game, and as soon as someone realizes that they can't break your tank, they'll leave, and wont be back until they have enough people to do it (not that it takes much, I'd wager a single well flown neut domi could drop a carrier, albeit slowly)

This is, of course, not even counting dreads. If you or one of your friends has a decent dread skillset, hop on sisi and try your hand at brawling a carrier or 2. This was actually what got me to permanently shelve my thanny (which I once flew with perfect skills, though mainly for rep support), as I became very aware of the fact that the only thing that had been keeping me alive was the fact that I rarely agressed/didn't fight competent dread pilots. 2 well skilled dreads will drop you before you can de-agress and dock, maybe even 1 if you're in a non-triaged thanny.

I was on sisi a few months back, refit my moros from the tracking fit it had been using to just a straight lets-see-how-much-dps-I-can-churn-out fit.

This was the fit.

While not at all practical, it goes to show just how much DPS a dread can field( and holy **** was it fun to fly), and how easily dreads can (and will, because cap ships are a beacon for pirates) absolutely wreck your carrier time and time again. The tracking dread (which was armor tanked) version killed carriers quite well also, and could take on a carrier or 2 without actually hitting armor before they died (and this was a fit designed to blap smaller ships) so yeah, a combat carrier is going to get wrecked very, very quickly.

While that's a goofy shield setup, the dps numbers aren't really that far off for a typical gank moros, your damage mods are all correct, usually closer to 16 -17k for most since the named guns are fairly pricey and not everyone chooses to run with them.

Don't listen to these naysayers, OP. Most of these clowns are mindless adherents to whatever fleet doctrines their alliance overlords have hammered into their heads - corporate drones with no respect for the efficacy of outside-the-box thinking, which is exactly why a cunning strategy like this will catch them completely unaware.

Why stop at a carrier, though? Have you considered a supercarrier?

OK give it a try and then get back to us.

You've clearly never met me, solo vindicators will catch on eventually and then I'll be seen as a visionary!

But yeah, this thread wasn't about who can throw away the most money in the name having a fun time, the Op wanted advice on the realities of dropping a solo non triage combat carrier for non exploding out of boredom reasons. The R&K vids are a great example of non traige carriers doing some great stuff, emphasis on the plural.



-edit- Cleaned up the qutoe blob

In before hilarious fail fitted carrier loss.

No...what you are trying to do is not what a carrier is designed for.

This was fun up until about 2010, you won't get further than 2000m off the station these days without getting dropped by every douche and his dog

I see your lolmail and raise you this gem from the failheap excursion to the chinese server:
http://killboard.nl/en/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=29803

Note that all of the characters involved had less than a million skillpoints at the time.

EDIT: Just copy the link rather than clicking it