Capital ships

Capital ships -- Dreadnaughts, Carriers, Supercarriers ("Motherships"), Titans and Rorquals -- can't use gates, and Supercarriers and Titans can't even dock. Instead they use their own jump drives to travel around. In order to do this, they require fuel (racial isotopes: Helium for Amarr, Oxygen for Gallente and the Rorqual, Nitrogen for Caldari and Hydrogen for Minmatar) and a cynosural field to jump to. Jump Freighters and Black Ops battleships also require a cyno field to use their jump drives, but they can use gates as well, while Black Ops have the unique ability to lock onto a covert cyno field too.

Cynos cannot be lit in highsec, so capitals can't go there. It was, however, once possible to build capitals there, 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 break these rules, he or she will recieve a temporary ban, and the capital ship will be moved to a station in a nearby low sec system.

Dreadnoughts

Dreadnaughts ("dreads") are DPS machines, only surpassed as damage-dealers by Supercarriers and Titans. Their weapons track very slowly, however, so usually they can only apply their DPS to other capital ships and to POSs and outposts. The exception is the Gallente Moros, which gets an incredible 50% per level bonus to drone damage and hitpoints, letting it rapidly chew through smaller ships with its drones. Only dreads can fit a siege module, which has the following effects when activated:

• -75% scan res
• +625% damage mod
• -50% tracking
• -60% explosion velocity
• -100% speed
• +100% shield boost/armor rep amount
• -50% shield booster/armor rep cycle time
• Can't recieve remote support
• Immunity to ewar
• Max amount of targets lockable set to 2

The siege module's cycle time is 10 minutes, and it requires 500 - (level of tactical weapon reconfiguration skill)*50 Strontium Clathrates ("stront"). While it's active the dread can't warp or jump or move in any way. With the siege module a dreadnaught can reach almost five thousand DPS even in a long range fit.

• Amarr : Revelation
• Caldari : Phoenix
• Gallente : Moros
• Minmatar : Naglfar

Carriers

These are giant logistics platforms. They have the ability to store 1,000,000 m3 of assembled ships in their ship maintenance bay so that pilots who lose their ships can quickly pick up a new one. Other ships from the carrier pilot's corporation (or fleet, depending on the carrier's settings) can also use it to refit in space.

A carrier has a 50% per level range bonus to two of the following, depending on which race's carrier it is: capital energy transferers, capital shield transporters and capital remote armor repairers. The Amarr Archon gets cap transfer and armor rep, the Gallente Thanathos and Minmatar Nidhoggur get shield and armor, and the Caldari Chimera gets cap transfer and shield. In addition to that, the Chimera and Archon get a resistances bonus (armor for Archon, shield for Chimera), the Nidhoggur gets a capital remote rep amount bonus and the Thanatos gets a fighter damage bonus. All carriers get the ability to control one extra drone per level in addition to the normal five, and the ability to use fighters (but not fighter bombers). They can't fit any guns or launchers at all, so the high slots are usually used for energy neutralizers, smartbombs (for killing drones or small ships) and remote reps.

Just like dreadnaughts, carriers also get a special module that only they can fit: the triage module. Its effects are:

• -100% speed
• -100% amount of drones controllable
• +900% scan res
• +4 max targets
• +100% shield boost/armor rep amount (both local and remote)
• -50% shield booster/armor repper cycle time (both local and remote)
• +100% remote hull rep/cap transfer amount
• -50% remote hull rep/cap transer cycle time
• +9999900% ewar cap use (all ewar mods will therefore take more cap then the ship could ever get, making them impossible to use)
• Immune to ewar
• Can't recieve remote support
• Can't jump out or warp away

The triage module has a 5 minute cycle time and, like the siege module, also uses stront. The amount used per cycle is 250 - 25 * (level of Tactical Logistics Reconfiguration).

Carriers and supercarriers can also use warfare links, but like battlecruisers and field command ships, they don't get a ship bonus to strength.

• Amarr : Archon
• Caldari : Chimera
• Gallente : Thanatos
• Minmatar : Nidhoggur

Supercarriers

A larger carrier with the ability to use fighter bombers, greatly increasing their dps to roughly twice as much as a sieged dread with a full flight of bombers and max skills. It gets +3 drones/carrier level instead of 1, but it can't dock and it has shorter jump range (equivalent to a dread/jump freighter). However, it is no longer able to triage, but they're always immune to EW anyway due to being a super capital. They can only be tackled by dictors and HICs (well, and anchorable bubbles I guess, but that's not practical due to the anchoring time required before they activate combined with limited range).

• Amarr : Aeon
• Caldari : Wyvern
• Gallente : Nyx
• Minmatar : Hel

Titans

Like supercarriers, they are immune to EW and can only be tackled by dictors and hics. They're all able to fit and activate the largest and most lethal gun in the game: a doomsday device, which does 2-3m damage depending on skills, but can only be fired once/10 minutes, cost 50k racial isotopes to activate, and prevents the titan from moving at all for 30 seconds and it can't use its jump drive for 10 minutes. Activating it takes 10 seconds, so you have some time to get out before the damage is applied, and the range of it is 250 km (aka the hard coded max lock range, nothing can do damage at longer range then that). Titans can also fit a jump bridge module, which works in a similar way to the cov ops jump bridge described above that the black ops use, but this one can bridge any type of ship, has longer range and can only lock on to normal cynos, not cov ops ones. They have bonuses to their racial capital weapons, and after dominion, most titans actually fit them and take part in capital fights. The doomsday device create a very effective counter against people playing docking games with capitals, the 3m damage it does is enough to kill any capital that is not either tanked specifically for that damage type (which is a stupid thing to do, unless you know that a specific titan is ready to jump in and DD someone and want to bait it) or fitted for max ehp. It is possible to tank a capital against every type of DD at once, but it requires completely gimping the fit, loosing damage and range mods on a dread, or the vital cap recharge on a carrier, combined with good leadership bonuses and preferably slave implants. Titans also have the ability to give out great leadership bonuses, even if they don't have any warfare links fitted (they are able to fit 1/titan skill level). Depending on the race of the titan, it gives out 7.5%/titan skill level to armor amount for gallente, shield amount for caldari, cap recharge for amarr and signature radius for minmatar.

• Amarr : Avatar
• Caldari : Leviathan
• Gallente : Erebus
• Minmatar : Ragnarok

Capital Industrial Ships: Rorqual

This ship is primarily intended for mining support with its huge tractor beam range and speed, ability to fit bonused mining leadership links and ability to compress ore. However, it 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.

• Rorqual