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Monc34

Uhm, ever seen BattleStar Galactica???
If you havent, well what about Star trekk??
What about Star Wars??
If you have, Im pretty sure you have noticed the Carriers do fight in battles, especially like the Enterprise, maybe not with a whorde of fighters inside, but it has shutles    
Theres also the Star Destroyers, and SuperStar Destroyers, they DO got squadrons of figthers inside.

What Im gettin at is, that a carrier is just a capital ship with a small part of space on the huge ship used fighters instead of some other cargo, why couldnt it fight on a battle, if the weapons are on the outside, rigged to the hull??? The hangar is on the inside anyways, and Im thinking, all of those large and huge ships having space for both small ships, and weapons, therefor be a VERY essential part on fleet battles. Also as I have said before, it would look fraking cool  



Monc34

every Star Wars ship (especially The Empire ships, The Rebels have hyperspace-fighters) have a squadron in it...just for any case... even the acclmator class have 2 fighters and 1 bomber... I think the game should have carriers... but from what we can hear from the devs... it's not gonna happen... I would get down from all the idea...

Since it usually comes from me, I am not accustomed to sarcasm from other sources.

Hehe, forum bug got ya PaladinStorm.

Or maybe I'm too logical a thinker for this game.

See the key word there is "game". It is just a game. Not a Navy training sim!.

Wow PaladinStorm you think about this stuff way too much!

Here here!

At any rate, I still think that the best way for any kind of carrier system to be implemented in the game would be an outside-combat loading/unloading feature like what Civilization has.

That would be game breaking. Let me tell you why:

If you could simply put fighters in a fleet and send them where you want whats the use of carriers. Fine, you can unload the fighters but only in your own civilization's range. If carriers could add range to nearby ships then what would range technolgy be for? What kind of idiot would research range if you could just build a carrierand send a couple o' ships with it. Carriers can have weapons and defences, but that is limited due to to the space the carrier module uses. You can load and unload fighters but only within your own range. The carrier and its loaded fighters would be completely immune to range. Everybody says that carriers need a drawback to keep it fair, then just take away speed. Fighters won't need any fancy engines, only guns and defences. And yeah, Carriers would make fleet battles SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH COOLER!!! If you can't add carriers to dark avatar then add carriers to the next expansion pack. This is the general idea of carriers.

Everybody who likes my idea say "I".

Kintor brought up the idea after it had been ignored for almost five months.
Of coarse, my idea about carriers is completely different and ORIGINAL.

P.S. sorry for such a long reply

Stardock pretty much ignored it, its been there sitting for 16 days without an anwser, and nobody else has noticed it either.

I guess the ppl from the GalCiv2 era dont give a fraking thing about carriers, tactical battles, space orbital bombardment, and Death Star from the greatest space game ever, sorry had to say it, MoO2.


Monc34

Ahzi Dakarra's (or whateverhis name is) idea isn't "game-breaking" as long as there is a resrtiction on how big the number of fighters on a carrier can be. (of course, if you could only put say, 5 fighters on a carrier, there would be no incentive whatsoever to build it).

I don't know if anyone thougth of this or not ,but how about bolth fighter pods and an anti-fighter point defence weapon? Bolth would be researchable advanced techs. The pods would take up 20-30 space and contain two drone fighters with 10hp each. While the anti-fighter pd takes up 15 space and does two 5pt shots per combat turn. Of corse these are just the numbers I'm using for a large hull. If anyone can improve on this go right ahead it's just an idea. My reason for the drones is simple, you don't have direct control of combat. Why wast time on building fighters for your carriers if they wont be around for long. This is my first post, so please don't beat up on me too much.