Carriers?

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Hey gang, just wondering what the function of a (non super) carrier is as opposed to using a dread instead?

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Ratting, Incursions come to mind. Carriers don’t have to siege and lock themselves in place for five minutes.

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You can have an off-grid carrier that assigns their fighters to somebody else. Dreads have to be on-grid to apply their damage.

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I didn’t think you could do this anymore?

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Isn’t HAW ratting a thing now?

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People use Naglfars to rat in Wormholes. But what are you going to do with your sieged Dread when neuts show up? You aren’t going anywhere. I am just going to warp off in my pre-aligned Carrier.

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Used in null anoms so you can RMT the bounty ISK. Ask Alex, he knows all about it.

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It’s a general purpose combat ship. So use it for general purpose combat.

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Can’t do this anymore. That went away a long time ago.

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9 seconds on google would have gotten you to Reddit - Dive into anything
where over a year ago, u/redfers explained it like so

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Well in all fairness he asked the function of the thing, not whether you could use it for ratting.

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its for ratting.

was that succinct enough for you?

not to mention I was responding to their “isnt HAW ratting a thing” comment. HAW ratting is a thing, but only if you are a moron, or in some specific cases in a wormhole. tbh training dreads is stupid AF, as carrier skill unlocks not only carriers, but FAX and moms.

of course none of that is what they asked… so by your logic I shouldnt have shared any of that
and you call yourself beast of revelations?

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The problem is, it’s an incomplete answer. Sure, it’s for ratting. It’s also for other things, because it’s a general purpose combat ship. I mean, don’t PvP fleets exist with carriers in them? What about those?

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General swiss army knife.

They can be used for a lot of things, and a lot of things at once.

Boosters, general DPS, anti-fighter, anti-sub cap, heavy tackle, various flavors of ratting. A max skilled carrier should out damage most common HAW dreads, and do it over a significantly longer range, but it does so at the expense of durability.

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