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No one is going to deploy a fleet where it all depends on a single type of ship. We currently see this problem in subcap fleets staying docked cause no boosters are available. Despite popular belief, this is something the vast majority of sov blocs suffers from.

As the changes currently stand, the answer to literally everything is throwing more dreads at it. With the size of the Imperium we will never again be in a capital fight cause no one will ever want to escalate against us cause we will outblob them with Dreads, without ever putting our Titans or Supers on the line. There simply isn't a counter to dread blobs. It used to be Supers and Titans but with the proposed changes Supers and Titans are simply too weak after the Triage carriers have been nuked off the field. As the blog so proudly states, it will be all about holding tackle on the hostile capitals which will be reasonably easy with the removal of Ewar immunity. Instead of using a single Titan, you can now throw down 30 dreads instead which will be way more ISK efficient.

Will the fight be more bloody? Yes, but they will be a lot more rare cause you will be counter dropped by a ton of dreads.

Tl;dr The changes further reinforces the N+1 but instead of it being Titans, the role has now been given to dreads. No one will want to escalate to capitals cause it'll be bloody for everyone.

They said Heavy Interdticors and Interdictors will work as they work now; i.e. when bubbled or focused script-warp disrupted, every capital till be tackled. So there will be a place for them after this aswell!

I guess the capital disruptors and scramblers are so that one capital kan hold another capital tackled. But there has to be 20-50 subcaps to tackle one capital with "ordinary" disruptors/scrams. That number is to be tuned i understood.

I didn't read the whole thread TLDR.

Regarding POS bashes, if carriers are no longer going to be logistics, can you extend the firing range of the fighters so they can effectively damage a POS tower? This could also be used against any stationary targets. This would encourage anybody in a fight to move instead of just sitting there (more dynamic gameplay).

Many if not most POS's in the local area don't have any defense and bringing my carrier to a POS bash is effectively useless unless a large fleet shows up, which they haven't yet., which is why I brought the carrier (insurance). Yes I know sentry drones do some damage, but not compared to a fleet of fighters.

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Maybe some backround first, since people will poke at that anyway at some point (you can skip that of course):
I am still too young to fly caps myself, so it is mostly a picture from outside - what I do like to fly is logistics, so my interest are mainly carriers or now force auxilliaries, as that will maybe end up beeing what I eventually will fly. The uni obviously has not a lot of caps. If we fight battles on that scale it is usually us bringing Neuts to take those dragons down (at most we have a few triage carriers or dreads).
So the only time I see supers or titans, is when they jump in and driveby our triage carriers and end the fight doing that.

That may result in bias, so that might be useful to start. Now my thoughts on that topic:

Titans and supers don't seem underpowered from my perspective - if they are basically the - "I win"-button in those fights. But that might just be perception.
Now you buff titans with AOE doomsdays. Subcaps can maybe evade that but triage carriers and sieged dreads won't, because that is what triage and siege do, right?
Now you reduce the HP of caps and introduce plates, also you stop carriers, from beeing able to refit. Now put that into perspective:
Now:

• A driveby titan appears
• Case 1: our triage carriers manage to refit in time and actually survives
• Case 2: our triage carrier is too slow and dies - End of the fight

After Changes:

• A driveby titan appears
• Case 1: our triage carrier can't refit anymore, it's HP is reduced - dies in a fire - End of the fight
• Case 2: wait no there is no Case 2...

Well... sounds... nice

To explain it in a bit more general terms - what is wrong with combat refitting? It just makes individual players and their actions meaningful - if the fit is fixed it is more n+1 than before.
It was also unique to capitals - you can perform better in sub caps by manual piloting (increasing and decreasing range, change transversal, you can't do that with capitals) but in exchange you can refit, because you have enough buffer, that this works.
On top of that, combat refitting is something individuals do, while making doctrine fits is usually done by the Leadership, wasn't there something about: "Line members should matter more" (fleet warp changes - anything rings a bell?)

It just seems like you remove a feature for no reason at all. I mean refitting does nothing in n+1 terms. You can't make someone refit his carrier better, by bringing more carriers to the field this just doesn't make any sense.

And dreads - well before you actually needed sub cap support to hit things with your guns. So it makes interactions and synergies possible means, more roles in a fleet. Now you give dreads just guns that track better but have worse dps, making them more standalone - do you want that?

All in all, I was kind of ok with the dreads and carriers as it was - triage and siege mean, that you can neut them out in those vulnerable phases and kill them before they get out of that. They might be powerful in this state but also weak. So kind of balanced. And again, I didn't see supers and titans that often...

EDIT: A more conceptional apporach to that topic:
Second Post

CCP plans on removing the Rorqual from the game. That's why it was not part of the Capital Balance. This is also why they removed the compression BPCs that were unique to the Rorqual, then they removed compression from being unique and gave it to all areas of space, regardless of skills. Then they made the clone bay useless by letting everyone get clones regardless of Standings.

The writing is on the wall for the Rorquak, CCP plans on deleting it, just doesn't know how to openly say so. This is why they repeatedly state they don't know how to approach it. They "it" is actually the pilots who use them.

Give it until summer and CCP will finally break the news that they will be removing it from the game. It's roles will be replaced by a service module or new anchorable in the Citadel system that will provide system wide boosts equal to the Rorqual or better. This will help get rid of the Rorqual and make the Industrial crowd want to get Citadels built in the systems they are in.

It's coming.. Or some form of this... You watch. System wide mining booster module thing will come and that will be the final bullet for the Rorqual.

One thing to remember about dread dps with the new guns is that, while 1-2k dps doesn't sound like much, dreads are significantly more mobile and tankier than battleships, so if they had more dps than battleships against subcapitals, why would you fly anything else? Cost would be a factor, but as is well known, cost can never be a factor when it comes to balancing ships e.g. titans. Also, dreads will have longer range with these new guns than battleships, which is something else to keep in mind, balance wise.

Sorta funny how a pilot, who never has flown a cap, understands this more than the dev team.

While I like many of the changes, this one is such an obviously unneeded one.

More mobile? You are joking right? They warp slower, align slower, and then are forced to sit in place for 5 min in siege. Oh they can jump, effectively once per hr, which means they fall prey to anything faster. If you apply 1 hr of travel time, say to get to a big fight. You can actually get BSs to the fight faster, unless you travel fit, which then leads to getting caught and having fitting issues do to the weapons timer issues they are proposing.

You can't apply remote repair modules to Citadels. They self-repair after defenders clear the field of incoming damage.

i think the high angle weapon batteries should do more dps.
1-2k is a bit low for a dread in siege. if you throw me with a pebble (bs)
it will hurt less than a boulder (dreadnaught). a mac can out dps it.
hell you can get 1600dps+ on a t1 typhoon. i know you have way more
tank but size people common XD. atleast lift it to 3k to be better than a pimped bs