As announced 2015-02-27 10:41:27 UTC on the o7 show .

"we have a list of high-impact balance changes planned for Scylla.

This thread is for discussing the proposed removal of fighter assist for carriers and super carriers.

This change being largely driven by 'skynetting' which is a tactic where carriers and super carriers can sit in near perfect safety at the edge of starbase shields and assign thousands of DPS worth of fighter drones to their fleet mates who can fly whatever ship they want *) , while wielding an enormous amount of damage. We feel this is not meeting our standards for risk vs reward and therefor would like to remove the ability to assist fighters. More details are covered in this dev blog.

A particular point of feedback that we are interested in surrounds the ability of fighters to warp. We know that in some circumstances it can be frustrating to have your fighters warp off grid to chase a target when you would rather have them move to another target on grid with you instead. We also know that fighter warping is unique and provides some interesting gameplay in some scenarios. Would you prefer that we removed the ability for fighters to warp or that we left warping in, despite the absence of assist?

Look forward to your feedback."

As far as feed back goes , mostly negative in the sense of a change like this will greatly limit the need for carriers not only for assisting fleets but also for the pilots who rat and play with friends .

CCP has since removed the fighter assist and delegate options from the game even before having a look at all the negative feed back as well as complaints in regards to this .

This petition is to get the removed fighter functions back and hope that CCP along with the player base can work together to find a fix that will work in the long run .