optimize the carrier class

[Highland Laddie]

That's part of the balance. A carrier is not at all meant to go toe-to-toe with any kind of capships, and should instead rely on fighter/bomber or escorting cap support. Thus, more emphasis on armor & cargo space, less on weaponry.

Also, as has been stated, less emphasis on weapons can mean more emphasis on equipment like cloaks, jump drives, etc.

[Jonas Valent]

I think it would be a great idea to expand the docking modules on the carrier. It would also be nice to have one or two docking module hard built into the carriers with room for several more. i would also be in favor or reducing the amount or type of guns. like someone else said a carriers main weapon are the fighters and bombers it carries not a loadout of gun like a dreadnought. The carriers should be more of an RP platform then an offensive weapon by itself.

[Tankman]

Pre-incorperated hanger bays would be helpful, considering that carriers without them are a tad useless.

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[henriking]

You forget key thing

tell me how many ppl will get together to make a fighter/bomber fleet to dock to the carrier.

You say add more docking module so that more ppl can dock on the carrier. the main problem is that arent many ppl willing to dock on the carrier.

My idea is to give the carrier NPC fighter/ bombers that the carrier can launch. and thous NPC can be bought like missile amo, with the price from 10k to 100k depend from the fighter/bomber class.

Is the best thing to do.

[Jonas Valent]

Very good idea of yours about the npcs being bought like missile ammo.You are right about the difficulty of gathering a fleet.

[Highland Laddie]

If that were possible, the "ammo" should cost what the ships cost for the player (i.e. several million/ea.)

[TLI-Inferno]

Simple way to make carriers different and still effective: Allow players to dock NPC's of the same faction on them and release them at will (although not being able to order them, they'd only be able to dock them and launch them).

[Tankman]

If that were possible, the "ammo" should cost what the ships cost for the player (i.e. several million/ea.)

10 million per sounds fair enough.

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[henriking]

Im not okey to the price of the carrier's fighter/bomber would be like the price of the player ship coz you now a NPC ships is not efective like a player ship. the NPC fighter/bomber would be more like a Smart missile that haras player.

You know in missions is prety easy to kill NPC fighters /bombers thous do little real damage to a player fighter or BS.

The NPC ships will haras the fighter pilot and force him to douge and manuver all the time so he will be busy with thouse and will force BS/cruiser pilots to turn their guns to kill the NPC bombers so they will not be focus all the time to shoot the player carrier.

If you want them to be that much expensive you will need to designe a much smarter AI for the NPC and is a very long and hard job to designe a AI that can actualy be on the same ability like a medium player.

My idea is much more practice and easy to do that to redesign the AI or to convice a lot of players to escort you like a fighter/bomber wing.

[henriking]

Any admin/dev willing to comment on this??