Dreadnought vs Carrier

[Aerys]

Finally have enough money to buy either of these ships, but is a Dreadnought or a Carrier stronger?

[Geek]

Dreads have better shields, more turrets, larger batteries.

[Assailer]

Just bought my first Dread and it's rather powerful. Great upgrade!

[Lou the Lou]

Dread. Carriers are huge and having wings of fighters and bombers is neat, but if you want to be in the strongest ship around, gotta make it a Dreadnought.

As Geek said, more turrets. More shields. Better damage absorb from its perk. Better capacity and regen on its weapons. The only way I could ever see putting myself in a carrier was if I had a maxed-out fleet and I wanted to try fighting indirectly (though the short range on weapons makes that difficult).

Don't get me wrong, I would love to fly a Borealis around, and I did try a couple different carriers after capping them (was particularly looking forward to the Asgard and its 10 forward turrets, but... meh), but yeah. Dread go pew.

[Evangelion]

As others said, Dreadnoughts just put a huge shadow over the Carriers. They got everything better. Carriers haven't exactly been change since day 1 and they're so far the weak link. They're supposed to get some love in the coming patches however.

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Originally posted by Aerys:

Finally have enough money to buy either of these ships, but is a Dreadnought or a Carrier stronger?

Hi Aerys, as others have said Carriers are under-powered atm, however we will make them worthy in upcoming patches. Generally game is still being balanced based on our observations and community feedback. :)

[ponsemen_bg]

Star Destroyer Carier from SW mod...and you are alredy in Titan clas for SPW !! ;D

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=859386513&searchtext=

[joamsons]

Give the carriers more shield and I'll fly it.

[Mordin Ashe]

Carriers need more shields than Dreads and perhaps more fighters in wings. They are more expensive than Dreads and have terrible performance right now. Never feared Carriers since I upgraded my ride to Cruiser to be honest...

[Affixiation]

Originally posted by Mordin Ashe:

Carriers need more shields than Dreads and perhaps more fighters in wings. They are more expensive than Dreads and have terrible performance right now. Never feared Carriers since I upgraded my ride to Cruiser to be honest...

I agree with the shields. As for fighters, they could either add more numbers in each wing, buff the damage of strike craft (either of those would be an indirect buff to any ship with a hanger however) or they could increase the number of slots to place fighters in.

I personally think they should increase the slot amount from 3 to 5 or 6. Just imagine hitting that launch fighters button and a massive swarm of your dudes comes zipping out.

[zingo2]

The problem is rather simple (wrote some in other thread)

Cruiser -> Battleship -> carrier-> Dreadnought

I dont really understand where is the problem here? Sure Carriers are huge but they are fargile- they have less weapons and every other game has Dreadnoughts as tier 0 or top 1.

Carriers will always be support class tier 2 ships- even in real life- you take away their eskorts- take away their planes and its a huge boat.

So

If you really want to make a new tier- Mothership!(possible DLC)

Mothership class has Carrier + Dreadnought
It has huge space for many fighters/bombers- it has very heavy and lots of firepower- heavy hull- its enourmous in Size.

SPg2 had Titans- bring them back- also an option.

[EchoSON]

I have a battleship, and im not going to lie... I got melted by a load of wings deployed by a carrier. (I wasnt at full hp when it dropped out of hyperspace), I was in the middle of a fight with a Dreadnought, but those wings really ruined me.
I did manage to get into sublight and run before I died, but it was close.

[Evangelion]

Originally posted by EchoSON:

I have a battleship, and im not going to lie... I got melted by a load of wings deployed by a carrier. (I wasnt at full hp when it dropped out of hyperspace), I was in the middle of a fight with a Dreadnought, but those wings really ruined me.
I did manage to get into sublight and run before I died, but it was close.

AI does a lot more damage with the wings than the player, especially on the Extreme.

[EchoSON]

Originally posted by Evangelion:

Originally posted by EchoSON:

I have a battleship, and im not going to lie... I got melted by a load of wings deployed by a carrier. (I wasnt at full hp when it dropped out of hyperspace), I was in the middle of a fight with a Dreadnought, but those wings really ruined me.
I did manage to get into sublight and run before I died, but it was close.

AI does a lot more damage with the wings than the player, especially on the Extreme.

Ah... well, what if you had those fancy 9mil wings and enhancment for it?... still not amazing?

[Evangelion]

I had 11 mil wings, Carrier perk and enchancement and it didn't even come close to the damage output a Dreadnought does. Carriers do a bit better than Battleships in term of damage. Only difference is that they have a lot more hull, since the shields are pretty much the same and so is the amount of turrets.

[EchoSON]

Originally posted by Evangelion:

I had 11 mil wings, Carrier perk and enchancement and it didn't even come close to the damage output a Dreadnought does. Carriers do a bit better than Battleships in term of damage. Only difference is that they have a lot more hull, since the shields are pretty much the same and so is the amount of turrets.

carrier has a 7 turret mount , battleship has 5?