Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Sentry carriers are imbalanced and too cost-effective for so many reasons... I don't understand the logic of people who'd like everyone to use them instead of fixing them. But the main problem is every carrier launching up to 10 drones, so when you deploy 200 carriers you effectively launch 2200 separate objects into space. And someone says it doesn't affect server performance, seriously?

TiDi issue has to be addressed asap, but I'd like to see carriers balanced as well. Main characteristics of every combat ship are damage, defense and navigation (how fast can you get into battle). Let's look at them.

Damage
All the ships in EVE apply damage well only to one class below and all classes above (battleships hitting cruisers and above, dreadnoughts hitting battleships and capitals etc), all the ships except carriers.
- sentry drones can hit everything starting from frigates and at a very long range
- sentry drones are assisted, so EWAR doesn't affect them at all, and they have perfect alpha
- sentry drones can be killed (by bombs etc), but this is a drawback only for subcapital ships not carriers which carry thousands of spare drones

Defense
1) Remote repair. I'd say this isn't well balanced throughout entire game, but capital reps on carriers and supercarriers with all the high slots available for utility are most broken. Because of high resists you need much more capitals to break through the tank than there are carriers on the field.
2) Buffer. If it's too hard to break through reps, the most adequate idea is to kill a ship in one shot. But carriers have so much EHP they can tank even a doomsday. Dreadnoughts can do the work but unlike carriers they cannot receive remote assist while dealing damage, which should be true for all the capitals in my opinion.

Navigation
With a chain of cynoes one can move a full fleet of carriers through entire universe in like half an hour.

Price
For all this versatility and ease of usage you pay less than 2 bill for a fitted and loaded carrier. This isn't much for most players in null-sec alliances. And due to high defense and lag they create it's unlikely to see many carriers dead during a small period of time.


Now can somebody explain how do you call this balanced compared to other ships in EVE?

So go and create a separate thread about nerfing them. This thread is about lags and fixing thereof.

why destroy something what can be scooped and made to ISK later by people. there are easy billions of easy ISK scattered on grid waiting to be scooped and taken to jita.

True but what about if they would only self destruct if TiDi got to a fixed percent like 50%. Once TiDi was 50% they would start self destructing but any TiDi lower they would stay so scavengers can scoop and sell in Jita later.

My favourite game is broken by tremendous lags caused by drones in mass pvp.
Dear CCP, please fix it.
P.S.: Am I the only one around here who can't understand why PL members post about HC vs. N3 war in this thread?

yes please just fix carriers...drop assign on 500 domis is working as intended

CCP PLS FIX TiDi LAGS !!!!!!!!!!!!
really with TiDi fleet dreads cant kill carrier !!!! lol? coth TiDI give time to make target RR save befor dreads make damage !!!
WTF
really this is tard s1ht

And another one bites...

Two questions for you, if you would be so kind.
Do you argue the point that sentry drones, in thousands, create lag?
Don't you want this lag addressed, and the issue fixed?

The flow of disgruntedPL/N3 posters in this thread is amusing, raving about some war or another, as if someone asks to nerf or take away some of their toys, and here you are defending the lag created by drones, as if you're using it to some purpose.

Fix Drone Lag

drones broken. fix drones = fix lags. or give guns and launchers assist too