get an Orca
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Just a somewhat related screenshot thought I share:
Ignore Vuh, he’s basically a troll and is resistant to all ship additions.
The escort carrier has been a relatively popular / common suggestion over the years, and one I have relatively positive feelings toward.
I expect it would be a t2 version of the faction’s battleship drone boat (Scorpion, Domi, 'Geddeon, Typhoon, or alternatively new faction hulls that would make it look like a miniature carrier,) and have 1 flight of 5 fighters. I’m not sure what that would be dps wise.
Variety. There’s a reason why we have 4 empire faction lines and not just one.
Training. There is a bit of a demerit to learning how to make use of fighters in lowsec when supers can instagib you. (I would link you an instance of that happening, but the video seems to have been removed.)
Also, as the op said, fighter gameplay is different than using drones.
I also personally have a hope carriers can eventually be used as a bridge point between Vanguard and EVE. Carriers (and Escort Carriers for highsec) would act as a spawn point for Vanguard (Valkyrie) pilots in this context.
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you know why ? because all ideas are ■■■■ ! come up with a good one i would like to see such stuff ! but normaly we dont need new stuff because CCP cant even balance their “old” ships correct and you want more new stuff and again more new stuff … and new means you want more powerful stuff then the already existing ships ! and more powerful seems like always a shitty option …
btw … youre the only troll in here 
otherwise you wouldnt call other ppl trolls only because they are known that all the personal ideas are only for lazy and selfish ppl …
only because 3 ppl say they were cool does not mean its popular xD
you still have the problem that you need ships they are way bigger ! why ? because 1 fighter has 1000 m³ … and no ship has such space to fit such fighters ! and now you have bigger ships and still want to call it battleships ?
then tell all the improvements … why you all hiding all the improvements if they are exist ? why you are not able to setup a text with all the informations we need to see this idea would be great ?
instead you only write … the benefits have some variety´s … oO maybe you start with the base concept of this ship and only at the end if the base is complete you add the faction specifications ?
you can train fighters in carriers if you know how to fly … if everbody else would use the HS to train then we would have more “experts” in this game and not such cryhards they create everytime they lose a ship in space another thread and want a nerf for their oponents …
fighters are not that hard … you dont have to lern 127 years before you have “fighter mastery” on personal skill level 1 …
unock your carrier in your ally´s home system and youre safe that no titan or super will instablap you !
then take your 5 min to see how fighters work and be happy youve lerned it !
it does not happen if youre not a complet stupid shitlord xD
yes … and now where is the improvement to implement fighters in HS ?
^ No, you’re a tad harsh/abrupt in your replies.
thats sometimes correct ! doesnt change the fact i´m correct !
Half the battle is presentation.
Sounds like a Domi…
doest care if you can easy deny such lazy try to add a new ship !
if there were a real idea how the base ship were build then we could have speak about this and not about all the their “feelings” about a new ship
We could easily have another T2 class of “escort carriers” that utilize existing battleship hulls.
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maybe you are able to tell the improvements ? the OP isnt … and some other dudes who like to see such stuff are also not able …
create a base concept of a ship and we can discuss if its benefitial for the game or not !
everything else is just childish " but i want more overpowered stuff stomps with his feet "
Having an escort carrier as a capital is a non-starter (due to high-sec restrictions, etc.), but I think a fighter-based sub-capital is an interesting idea.
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then just change the drone mechanics … i will say … all drone bonused battleships could be changed into a fighter based ship ! not that you will use carrier fighters but maybe ccp could implement another set of drones ? about the same DPS like a set of heavy drones ! just that you could use the fighter mechanics with drones !
but still i dont need the improvement why CCP should take recources to develope such stuff …
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Triglavian and Edencom ships are fairly role-specific, so I’m sure they could swing 4 escort carriers…
There’s also the fact that it would be pointless. Carriers are already the lowest level of capital, making the Escort Carrier also be a capital doesn’t make any sense, and merely redundant.
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none of them are drone based factions ! they are based on
- a sngle target spool weapon with a ■■■■ ton of role boni
- a chain lightning with extrem low single dps ( need to bee otherwise it got abused )
non of them have any ships with drone bonus ! and it were realy silly if they now start to use exactly this … drone based ships oO
I didn’t say drones - I said fighters.
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fighters and drones are the same base … and why do a carrier need drone upgrade modules and dont have the specific set of fighter upgrade modules ? because they are simply the same …
Same but different.
do you know whats very strange ?
you want this so much but dont bring up a base of a ship like the OP ! you just throw anything into the room and then think your opinion is good enough to convert other ppl ?!
why didnt you create a ship hull ( only the base without any influence of a faction ) then we can see the specifications like HP, resi profile, slot layout, mass, inertia , sensor strengh and so on … if you create such a base and can argue that we need this then we can talk … but actual its nothing less then :