Bomber balance

[mohr]

Well, I got a suggestion that does not involve changing the equipment. Just my views of course.

I am under the impression it is difficult for cap ships (not including gunships) to hit the slower bombers (and fighters for that matter). I believe this is intended, and good for balance. Now because bombers are hard to hit, should they still have the far larger hulls? Currently the drawbacks a bomber faces compared to a fighter is fewer normal guns and for the majority of them less manuvurability. The advantages are more hull, more energy, and two torp tubes with a wider selection of insta kill weapons.

Now nothing can really be done about the insta kill weapons if you want to keep fighters and bombers competative with caps. However, bombers currently have more hull (in some cases double their VHF counterparts), and more energy and torp slots to end a fight quickly with an insta kill weapon.

Perhaps reducing the hull on bombers will solve most of the bomber issues (the over-manuverable bombers need an agility decrease still). The lower hull will make them less of an option against fighters(maybe not requiring a mini-razer to kill), they will still be hard to hit by cap ships, and fighter escourts for both bombers and cap ships will be seen more. The bombers will still be a threat to fighters, the bomber pilot just wont have as much time to do it in and their survivability in a furball will decrease.

This will also put more emphasis on skill by making people want to dodge more. I thought this was already something people did against VHF in the old version because then even VHF could shoot a nova. Also, I don't really like the idea of losing the duel torps. If bombers are still overpowered, decrease their hull some more. They get fire power at the expense of hull, like how kusari fighters get manuverability at the expense of hull.

What do you think? Sorry about the wall of text... :$

Mohr

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