Posted - 2011.01.16 16:25:00 - [1]

 

I was thinking about a few of the problems people have with capitals/supercapitals.

Namely: Supercarriers are entirely too hard to kill, and Dreads have fallen in popularity.

I thought of a relatively simple answer.

Remove siege mode; make it an inherent damage bonus. Make dreads fast for capital ships. Slower than a BS, but not capable of being kited away by any other capital ship.

Replace the siege module with a capital interdiction module. It would not have an AoE bubble, but would instead be a single target infinite-point that only works on capital ships.

So now, when you drop your fleet of dreads on a supercap fleet, they actually have something to worry about.

Keep their EHP/Damage/Etc as it is now. Maybe adjust tracking to account for them firing out of siege.

This would make a fleet of dreads actually scary again, as you can't just fly away from the unmoving failheap and/or focus 100 fighter bombers on the few HICs and warp/jump out.