Carriers?

[Alice_Accord]

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

[Voss_Thrilk]

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

[Xeux]

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

[Alice_Accord]

I didn’t think you could do this anymore?

[Alice_Accord]

Isn’t HAW ratting a thing now?

[Voss_Thrilk]

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.

[Rocket_Hellfire]

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

[Beast_of_Revelations]

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

[Beast_of_Revelations]

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

[WHATAJOKE]

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

Need two siege cycles for finish haven, this is 10 min + time for warp out to new anom, on carriers you need same time but in this all time you can jump out to cyno gen or warp out if neut try tackled you. With dread you finish haven faster then on the carrier but you need still wait second cycle of siege and this is total same time or maybe more because time for aline and warp and you cant save if someone try tackled you because siege So this is why carrier more popular then dread in null ratting. Sire on dread you can have more time still alive if you attack by wh gang but if no anyone going save you you finally die. On dread not to much high slots and no free slot for cyno because 1 siege 3 turrets and last one you need for smart bomb because you can have problems with frigats but i dont sure 100% about smart

[Beast_of_Revelations]

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

[WHATAJOKE]

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?

[Beast_of_Revelations]

@WHATAJOKE

its for ratting.

was that succinct enough for you?

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?

[Onictus]

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.