Fighters and carriers

Don't know how about you, guys, but while I was recently thinking about creating fleets and own ship designs it came to me, that I really miss the swarms of little fighters during combat. Coz' right now what we basically have, are situations where let's say 3 figters defend a whole planet against an invasion... or worse, 1 fighter and 1 troop transport makes a whole invasion fleet!
To counter that a bit I set some rules on myself:
1. When building fighter, instead of naming it like: "Barracuda" I prefer to name it: "Red Devils Squadron" and pretend, that there are much more than only 1 fighter in it.
2. I never add life support to fighters and tend to station them on planets or starbases (so that longer journeys are only for the bigger ships)

But I still miss the ability to build carriers...
What do you think?
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Ever wonder how big a fighter in space actually has to be? Step outside the "Shuttle" size thinking that folks believe.

Star Wars really doesn't do justice to size matters... Star Trek tried at first... with the first Enterprize being labled as a scout cruiser... (if memory serves me right)

Given the real size of what space ships would have to be especially with backup systems, I can see why planets are defended by 3 or 4 of them. Not much more room

W/R
Suralle Straykat
Kat Lord @ Large