Carriers idea

[Mr.Mike.]

Hello!


There was an idea of how to balance the game on carriers and at the same time leave their force as it was (at least, I think so).


So, let's compare the Liberty`s Dreadnought and Carrier:

Characteristics	Liberty "Overlord"-class Dreadnought	Liberty "Atlantis"-class Carrier
Weapons	0/13 ( 3 heavy turrets, 4 primary turrets, 6 secondaries )	0/27 ( 2 heavy turrets, 4 primary turrets, 21 secondaries )
Hull strength	1,800,000	1,900,000
Power output	8,000,000	9,000,000
Power Rechange	260,000	300,000

And now we compare the ships of Bretonia (all the same classes):

Characteristics	Bretonia "Dunkirk"-class Battleship	Bretonia "Invincible"-class Carrier
Weapons	0/14 ( 3 heavy turrets, 4 primary turrets, 7 secondaries )	0/25 ( 2 heavy turrets, 4 primary turrets, 19 secondaries )
Hull strength	1,750,000	2,300,000
Power output	8,000,000	9,000,000
Power Rechange	260,000	300,000

As you can see, carriers bypass their battleships by the number of weapons, the power of the core and even the strength.

Let's turn to the reality: no aircraft carrier has such a number of weapons, and even more so - such strength to withstand the enemy's tight fire. All their weapons are fighter jets and bombers with different weapons.

So, in connection with the appearance of Drone Bays, I propose to introduce the following changes:

Bretonia:

Characteristics	Bretonia "Invincible"-class Carrier (Before the changes)	Bretonia "Invincible"-class Carrier (After the changes)
Weapons	0/25 ( 2 heavy turrets, 4 primary turrets, 19 secondaries )	0/15 ( 0 heavy turrets, 2 primary turrets, 13 secondaries )
Hull strength	2,300,000	1,500,000
Power output	9,000,000	9,000,000
Power Rechange	300,000	300,000

Liberty:

Characteristics	Liberty "Atlantis"-class Carrier (Before the changes)	Liberty "Atlantis"-class Carrier (After the changes)
Weapons	0/27 ( 2 heavy turrets, 4 primary turrets, 21 secondaries )	0/16 ( 0 heavy turrets, 2 primary turrets, 14 secondaries )
Hull strength	1,900,000	1,300,000
Power output	9,000,000	9,000,000
Power Rechange	300,000	300,000

This will change the class of carrier ships radically. But let's have a closer look.

Weapons:
Changes in the number of turrets should lead to the fact that carriers could successfully fight with enemy fighters, and not act as tanks in each battle. Of course, such a need will lead to the creation of new weapons for carriers only:

First Weapon

Carrier Light Turret

Hull Damage: 1,000
Energy Damage: 500
Refire Rate: 10.00
Power Usage: 5,000 u/round
Speed: 5000 m/sec
Travel Range: 3,000 meters

This type of weapon will not cause serious damage, but its main feature is the rate of fire, the speed of flight and the range of fire.

Second Weapon

Carrier Flak Turret

Hull Damage: 20,000
Energy Damage: 10,000
Refire Rate: 1.00
Power Usage: 50,000 u/round
Damage Type: Direct

Missile Stats
Seek Range: 2,000 meters
Thrust Speed: 350 m/sec
Lifetime: 3.20 seconds
Travel Range: 1,120 meters
Turn Rate: 0.00 deg/sec (0.0 rad/sec)
Hit-Points: 2

Explosion Stats
Explosion Radius: 50 meters
Detonation Range: 10 meters

The main feature of the gun is a low energy cost and high damage to small targets (bombers, fighters).

I would use the main guns from the battleships, since some kind of firepower needs to be kept.

Nevertheless, even with such weapons, the firepower leaves much to be desired, because such a weapon can destroy a small group of bombers (and that is not a fact), well, or a n00b gunboat/cruiser.

Drone Bays:
Carriers for this and called carriers, that carry on their board some ships. As I believe, you need to expand the arsenal of the Drone Bays. Now we have a bomber with powerful shields and conventional armor. The only variety on it is torpedoes. As I believe, carriers should have an fighters/bombers on their board.

So, I propose to introduce the following Drone Bays in return for the old ones:

Fighter Light Drone Bay

Number of ships carried: 3
Class of ships: fighter.
Capacity in the cargo hold: 100.

Fighter Medium Drone Bay

Number of ships carried: 5
Class of ships: fighter.
Capacity in the cargo hold: 150.

Fighter Heavy Drone Bay

Number of ships carried: 7
Class of ships: fighter.
Capacity in the cargo hold: 200.

Bomber Light Drone Bay

Number of ships carried: 2
Class of ships: bomber.
Capacity in the cargo hold: 150.

Bomber Medium Drone Bay

Number of ships carried: 4
Class of ships: bomber.
Capacity in the cargo hold: 210.

Bomber Heavy Drone Bay

Number of ships carried: 5
Class of ships: bomber.
Capacity in the cargo hold: 300.

Also I believe that you can distribute Bays for homes: Liberty Fighter Drone Bay etc. So Military ships will replace civilian models which will be logical.

Naturally, there will be confusion with the commands: how to activate it, how to activate the other ... But in fact: how can we activate all this simply and conveniently? I think that for each Bays we can make the distribution as in turrets:
1 slot - Bomber Medium Drone Bay
2 slot - Fighter Medium Drone Bay

You can change the permutation of Bays, but you can use all the same commands:

commands

/bay1attack 6th|LNS-Hampshire - This means that the drones of 1 slot ( Bomber Medium Drone Bay ) will attack 6th|LNS-Hampshire by SNAC`s and EMP weapons ( because shoot at one torpedo is not too interesting and easy for good cruiser-player ).
/bay2attack 6th|Alpha-1.1 - It means that the drones of 2 slot ( Fighter Medium Drone Bay ) will attack 6th|Alpha-1.1. It will be attacked by the fighters, so that it will not be sweet...
/bay1launch - This means that the drones of 1 slot will fly into open space and will stand next to the host ship waiting for orders.
/bay1return - This means that drones of 1 slot will fly to their host-carrier and dock to him.

Or (alternative):

/bay2attackt - This means that the drones will attack the target that we clicked on.

We do not need to think about which ships to use, we are now often meeting the Cultists. Their ships appear thanks to the commands of the administration. In fact, ships with the same principle of operation will be able to use and players.

(In addition to the Cultists ships, administration can spawn and military vessels).


Why need to do this:

1. Class of the ship: in no computer game I have not seen carriers have high firepower, including a large number of ships. As a rule, if there were such ships, they were huge, not the size of the battleship, for example.
   
2. The mission of the ship: now the carrier will really be a support ship, and not an attacking tank. He will need cover from a large number of bombers and certainly help from the battleship that appeared on the horizon. He will be dangerous when fighting at a long distance, but his strength ends in a battle with any ship of the same size as himself in close.
   

There is much more to offer: new types of weapons, bays. But the bottom line is that at the moment the carriers are too strong, they are practically battleships (not to mention the Liberty and Bretonia ships).

That`s all, thanks.

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