Bomber balance

[mjolnir]

I send most of this to Igiss some 2 weeks ago, just edited it a bit with current experience:
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I think the idea is to make bombers support vessels to attack caps with so that flying alone in a bomber would not make sense.


Bomber should not be able to fire the Supernova + many other weapons at the same time -> if it can fire lvl 9-10 guns at a fighter while still gaining energy to fire the supernova that it can shoot every now and then... it is too good against fighters.
Supernova should take 95+% of the bomber energy so that it cannot effectively fire guns while using it. If the bomber comes into fighter combat, it would still be of some combat value using guns only, but since it has less weapon slots/agility it should be less useful than a fighter. Yes it can support high energy drain weapons for long firing periods - but since it's less agile, it will not be able to track the fighter for long enough to make a difference.

Fighters win against bombers (in 1on 1) by being able to hit them before the bomber can turn on them.


Current issues:

- Bombers can still fire Supernova + other guns quite effectively, worse yet they can fire Supernova + Mini Razor/Inferno at the same time. That means they can do exactly the 1-2 kills like before with two Novas. Bombers can also mount two mini Razors but that makes then almost useless against bigger ships than GBs.

- Bombers are difficult to counter for fighters defending capships

My suggestions for solution

- Bombers should get energy supply decreased ?but recharge rate increased.?

- Bomber agility might be bit lower

- Mini Razor/Inferno - if they should remain fighter weapons? - energy and maybe damage decrease - so that it will make no sense to use them on a bomber - if they can be used effectively on a fighter why bother equiping a bomber with them making it less usefull against caps? If fighters can fire the mini about as often and score more hits due to better agility => no reason to have a bomber.



Now I think Igiss already changed the Mini Razor now... as for the other things... we'll see in new beta.

What do other bomber/ anti-bomber pilots think?

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