Capital ships
Reason: Changes to capital ships after the Citadel expansion, introduction of Force Auxiliaries.
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Capital ships (Dreadnoughts, Carriers, Force Auxiliaries, Supercarriers ("Motherships"), Titans and Rorquals) are the largest player-piloted ships in EVE. Capitals can only operate outside of high-sec space. While they can use stargates to travel (except to high-sec), they can also jump between star systems using built-in jump drives, although this needs another ship to light a "cynosural beacon" in the target star system.
The largest capital ships (Supercarriers and Titans, collectively known as "supercapitals") are so large that they can only dock at the largest (XL) citadels and are too large to pass through any wormholes. Additionally, they can only be built in nullsec system where your alliance has sovereignty.
| A long, long time ago... |
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| It was once possible to build capital ships in highsec, so there are still a few that never jumped out of the system they were built in. If they ever do jump out, they will never be able to return, and while they're in highsec they are not allowed to be used for anything that gives the owner any kind of advantage compared to someone that does not own a high sec capital ship; during wars, they're not even allowed to undock. If the pilot breaks these rules, he or she will receive a temporary ban, and the capital ship will be moved to a station in a nearby low sec system.
Additionally, capital ships were considerably rebalanced in the Citadel expansion (Spring 2016), in particular introducing Force Auxiliary capital ships. |
Dreadnoughts
Dreadnoughts ("dreads") are DPS machines, only surpassed as damage-dealers by Supercarriers and Titans. Only dreads can fit a siege module, which has the following effects when activated:
- 150% Torpedo velocity bonus
- 80% bonus to XL Launcher rate of fire
- 165% missile damage bonus (Tech II: 200%)
- 700% turret damage bonus (Tech II: 840%)
- -100% maximum velocity
- 100% shield booster/armor repairer amount bonus
- -50% shield booster/armor repairer duration
- 60% sensor dampener resistance bonus (Tech II: 70%)
- 80% remote assistance impedance
- 60% weapon disruption resistance bonus (Tech II: 70%)
- 100% remote repair impedance
The siege module's cycle time is 5 minutes, and it requires 250 - (level of tactical weapon reconfiguration skill * 25) Strontium Clathrates ("stront"). While it's active the dread can't warp or jump or move in any way. With the siege module a dreadnought can reach almost five thousand DPS even in a long range fit.
Carriers
Carriers can use Light and Support Fighters (frigate-sized drones).
Force Auxiliaries
Force Auxiliaries (sometimes abbreviated as "FAX") are capital-sized logistics and fleet boosting ships. They can fit Triage modules, which immobilizes the ship but massively increases its ability to repair both itself and its fleetmates. Also, Force Auxiliaries receive bonuses to logistics drones.
Supercarriers
- Main article: Supercarriers
Supercarriers are souped-up carriers with the ability to use Heavy Fighters.
Titans
Titans can also fit a jump bridge module, which creates a bridge between the titan and a destination cyno, and allows friendly subcapitals near the titan to jump to that cyno.
Capital Industrial Ship: The Rorqual
This ship is primarily intended for deep space mining support. It has a maintenance bay, corporate hangar, a huge ore hold, and the ability to fit bonused mining leadership links. The Rorqual can fit capital tractor beams and clone vat bays. In addition, the Rorqual has a jump drive and the ability to compress ore. The Rorqual does have a 50%/level range bonus to capital shield transfers, and a 20%/level drone damage bonus, so while it's not intended as a PVP ship, some people have been known to use it for that. The Rorqual has a non-capital little sister, the Orca, that can be seen supporting many highsec mining fleets.
