Wormholes

I'm not a carrier pilot. I know very little about carriers except that I've been told they are like really good guardians when they go into super space priest mode.

Was playing around on the test server before the mirror where I trained into a carrier just for ***** and giggles. Was putting out 2k dps with Geckos on my nano nid . My drone skills aren't very good(lvl 4s with sporadic 3's and 5's) and unfortunately didn't think of it before the mirror but what could a thanny do with fighters in a c5/c6 site?

Will the drone changes cause high class wh space to proliferate with solo ratting carriers? Whats the viability of a thanny running sites solo after the proposed drone changes? Running sites solo in a dread is already stupid easy so if you could do if with a carrier I think a lot of people would do it.

Solo carrier ratting would have some very significant advantages over solo dread.
Pros:
If you get dropped you can defend yourself much better then a dread. If its bad you can triage and try to scramble a rescue fleet.
Cheaper then a dread to lose. If you lose the carrier your down 3 sites worth of isk woopydedobasil.gif
Has fleet hanger and maintenance array. (Dual carrier ratting would be very difficult to kill)
Can pile in as many carriers as you want. (can't do this with dreads it messes up tracking)
Easier to cyno around after your done with expo

Cons:
Your weapon system is destroyable.
Slower then Dread method (if your not piling in carriers)

Discuss

Cool beans

You are ******** aquila, geckos are being nerfed.
Pls no emo talk.

Come on, we both know a thread is only worth reading if it has been made by a carrier pilot who lives in a C6.

Nah, I was just kidding guys. I'm sure it's a very good read.

All the real fighter carrier pilots are moving to completely overpowered, can't be tackled worth a damn, sub cap meat grinders known as supers.

One line of code is the only thing that keeps that in check

I'm no carrier pilot so I probably can't comment.. oh wai...



Why easy something with a tenth of the DPS instead then?


Supers are the bane of my existence. Every time I go to lowsec...

Safer.
Can mitigate the loss of speed by bringing more carriers which also makes it safer.

Also with drone buff carriers will have 20-2500 dps using fighters which is still better then a marauder.

Eh, they aren't really being nerfed, they were deliberately released with overpowered stats because CCP knew that in the very near future, they would be changing Drone skills. Anyways, thats kind of a pointless discussion.

Yes, all drone modules and skills will soon apply to fighters. My carrier alt can't wait. Gallente Carrier V, all drone skills at V.

From memory you can get something stupid like 3k DPS out of a full DPS fit Thanny.



I also think I read something about faction DDAs. They could be tasty.

Ok so it will take the time to destroy 1 escalation wave from 20 minutes to 15 minutes, but will you run out of fighters by then? Because they will probably be alpha'ed off the field.

This thread is pointless when you can single dread an escalation wave in like 2 minutes with at least a 50k+ shield tank... "safer" ... compared to an un-triaged carrier trying to tank sleepers and or trying to keep it's little fighters alive at the same time.