Don't waste your Dilith on them.
Primary points:
1. They're morons. They don't follow carrier commands 9/10ths of the time.
2. They're morons with fed frigate AI, so they
try and broadside even though they have 2x dual beam banks and a torpedo.
3. They have no 'skill level' as far as their debuffs go. Thermionic torpedo, when it procs, affects a given level 50 NPC for 3 seconds. Against a player? Hahahahahaha.
4. APB+FAW generates hilarious threat, but players don't care about threat, so this is one point that who cares I guess.
5. They don't mesh weave. JHAS fighters ram. But mesh weavers don't mesh weave.

6. They don't.... do much. A lot of times I just find them sitting around doing nothing when I've told them to go attack someone, or aimlessly exploring the map. I have to respawn them CONSTANTLY because they aren't remotely reliable.
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Comments
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They're probably still better than Type 10 Shuttles.
Whether they follow carrier commands is very intermittent. They'll always follow the intercept command, but tend not to be very cohesive about what they target with it- I'm testing on gorn space (foundry grind) and sometimes they just go off and explore the map for a bit before returning.
They're pretty good about maintaining debuffs on a single target, so in a pvp match where they might escape priority targeting they may do better.
They also *do* do attack runs. But they're problematic because they seem to like using evasive maneuvers at the start of the run- so they zip right past their target without really firing that much, and then turn around and- *gets hit with a torp spread and dies*
Yeah, it's kinda like that. IDK, evasive is pretty neat on them, since you can drop them at range and put them in intercept. But that's the only really reliable command for them- well that and recall. Attack and escort? If you're lucky they might deign to follow those commands.
CommanderDonatra@Capt.Sisko: ahhh is it supposed to do that?
Norvo Tigan@dontdrunkimshoot: hell ya, maybe
How ever that is not the way things are for Carriers. So I had a hunch they might not be as good as they looked on paper.
Think about this:
American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
Multi-target beta tagging is nice.
Priming stacks of elite fleet shields [ADAPT] property is not.
Yeah. Although you could just run different weapon types than your mesh weavers.
Which means nobody on your team could use Tetryons either.
Not a gigantic loss, but still one worth mentioning.
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