How to make Carriers Relevant

[Iron_Knickers]

So, this is just a simple idea I had on how to make carriers a relevant part of the game. It is completely unshaped and vague, so it is also very malleable and you guys can either improve it or dismiss it, any feedback is appreciated.

 

So here it is...

 

*drum roll*

 

In games without carrier players, create bot carriers to take their place? 

 

Oh yeah, also make bots good somehow

[Personator]

So, this is just a simple idea I had on how to make carriers a relevant part of the game. It is completely unshaped and vague, so it is also very malleable and you guys can either improve it or dismiss it, any feedback is appreciated.

 

So here it is...

 

*drum roll*

 

In games without carrier players, create bot carriers to take their place? 

Inb4 every1 hates in on this thread. In all seriousness, don't actually do that. Bots can be easily manipulated compared to actual players. Additionally, CV bots aren't exactly the best. I've tested this out in custom and they simply fly their planes straight to the enemy spawn. If they see nothing, they DO nothing. 

 

On a further note, if there were no human DD players in a game, think about how many people aren't going to be throwing parties and chanting "Hallelujah". (I'm included in this group)

[bad_arcade_kitty]

>How to make Carriers Relevant

 

are you kidding?

[Sinisstarr]

So, this is just a simple idea I had on how to make carriers a relevant part of the game.

 

In just about every game I play lately there is at least 1 carrier per team, often 2, who then proceed to sink every BB in sight with manual drops.

 

How much more relevance would you like?

[amaROenuZ]

See, carriers are already relevant. They're ideal for discouraging sniping BBs, spotting invisible DDs, softening up pesky runners, etc. They just need a little tweaking to make them more rewarding to play. Better divebombing mechanics, less frustrating low-tiers, reduced prisoners-dillemaing on the loadouts, etc.

[Carrier_Taiyo]

Title: Buff them back to CBT performance.

 

*dodges fruit and shoes.*

[yUPPatriots]

 

Nice try iron but sadly cvs are here to stay.

 

 

However, one can still dream:

 

 

 

[Hyoudou_Issei_The_RDE]

Nice try iron but sadly cvs are here to stay.

 

 

However, one can still dream:

 

 

[edited]lolololol

 

 

+1 to you xD

[Athorian]

Carriers are the reason i uninstalled wows's and will not reinstall until i read something on here about how the carriers got nerfed.  I'll check back from time to time to check but until then...no ships for me or money from me.   It's a great game and i'm not bashing it, or players that play the carriers.  Their torpedoes are just way to much.

[SDMCM_SakuyaIzayoi]

I only got 2 games in langley. Maybe shooting down planes would be a great way to earn credits? It may help aa crusiers such as usn abit.

[Alakdbor]

I absolutely detest playing my Ranger in a tier IX battle -- I might as well just afk since I get triple-slammed in the first two minutes. I was smack in the middle of a few cruisers.

[yUPPatriots]

I absolutely detest playing my Ranger

 

 

Detesting carriers is 100% ok, no need to feel any guilt.

[Iron_Knickers]

Thanks for the feedback everyone

[Sinisstarr]

Carriers are the reason i uninstalled wows's and will not reinstall until i read something on here about how the carriers got nerfed. 

 

You might be waiting a while, WG is hard at work adding teddy bear captains (yes really) and cartoon ships to the game instead of fixing balance.

[bad_arcade_kitty]

i want a teddy bear captain

 

also im such a silly silly girl, i probablly will never have myoko now and haguro while her anime avatar is cuter she is so red (da red goez fasta?) and i want violet mewko

[_Zergling]

This is what WG needs to do in order to make carriers more relevant:

 

Make AA and fighters more intuitive, instead of the stupid clicking we have right now. Edit: In fact, make everything more intuitive. Current interface is buggy and hotkeys are unchangeable. More plane interaction such as changing altitude and speed.

 

Make fighters actually useful in higher tiers. Nobody uses Air superiority because of the point above and because they run out of ammo after shooting 1 squad.

 

Buff overlapping AA, take away Defensive Fire consumable. Promotes the counter of sticking together in order to have a more effective AA defense, without having a mechanic which CV players are 100% helpless against.

 

More carriers of different nations. Right now with only 2 nations with CVs right now, gameplay amongst the two is too one-dimensional. IJN into USN, you hide your bombers and use ur fighters as bait. USN into IJN, you truck their fighters and then do some stuff with your DBs. We need another nation with different strengths and weaknesses to break up this stale meta.

[Sinisstarr]

also im such a silly silly dude pretending to be a girl

 

Fixed.

[Taichunger]

The OP misspelled "revenant". 

[DeeZee8]

Carriers are the reason i uninstalled wows's and will not reinstall until i read something on here about how the carriers got nerfed.  I'll check back from time to time to check but until then...no ships for me or money from me.   It's a great game and i'm not bashing it, or players that play the carriers.  Their torpedoes are just way to much.

You do know the Saipan is coming  You do know the DAWS hack to avoid torpedoes, as well as skills you do know like vigilance to help spot them, oh and hydroacoustic search also do you know?

i want a teddy bear captain

also im such a silly silly girl, i probablly will never have myoko now and haguro while her anime avatar is cuter she is so red (da red goez fasta?) and i want violet mewko

Teddy bears have cotton balls. I am sure you can re-skin your ships, just to be silly

The OP misspelled "revenant". 

Prevalent

[Arvanna_1]

This is what WG needs to do in order to make carriers more relevant:

 

Make AA and fighters more intuitive, instead of the stupid clicking we have right now. Edit: In fact, make everything more intuitive. Current interface is buggy and hotkeys are unchangeable. More plane interaction such as changing altitude and speed.

 

Make fighters actually useful in higher tiers. Nobody uses Air superiority because of the point above and because they run out of ammo after shooting 1 squad.

 

Buff overlapping AA, take away Defensive Fire consumable. Promotes the counter of sticking together in order to have a more effective AA defense, without having a mechanic which CV players are 100% helpless against.

 

More carriers of different nations. Right now with only 2 nations with CVs right now, gameplay amongst the two is too one-dimensional. IJN into USN, you hide your bombers and use ur fighters as bait. USN into IJN, you truck their fighters and then do some stuff with your DBs. We need another nation with different strengths and weaknesses to break up this stale meta.

 

Sadly if they did follow your suggestions there would be a cry from the CV players to nerf AAA just like before when people started grouping up for mutual protection and the CV's cried about how many planes they were losing throwing them into the teeth of a pack of ships just for a point blank torp drop.

[Fog_Destroyer_Yudachi]

Carriers are the reason i uninstalled wows's and will not reinstall until i read something on here about how the carriers got nerfed.  I'll check back from time to time to check but until then...no ships for me or money from me.   It's a great game and i'm not bashing it, or players that play the carriers.  Their torpedoes are just way to much.

 

they need several minutes to launch one wave of bombers if enemy carrier is doing his work.

if a battleship/cruiser is shooting you for such a long time, you receive similar amount of dmg.