Bomber balance

[Jinx]

i only have experience with the BHG bomber ( ok, i fly the praetorian, too... but i only shoot transports with it and run from any other ship that may attempt to shoot me and is either smaller than a transport or better armed ) - but the BHG bomber does extremely well against capital ships. no capship is able to hit me when i am dodging it - i cannot shoot meanwhile, cause i haven t figured that one out yet ( how to effectivly dodge AND shoot my SN ) but i m working on it.

right now, even some gunboats that are a lot bigger than most bombers and less agile aren t easy to hit. - for example, a scorpion gunboat is only a blob a few pixels big from the turret point of view of a juggernaut when they keep the distance ( which they can, cause they have thrusters )
now when i think of bombers - it makes my eyes ache. they are extremely small - and when a bomber circles my juggernaut, there is little to do about it ( well, when its only one bomber i simply ignore it - or better, i have plenty of time to call people to assist )

bombers haven t got to make straight approaches in order to deliver their torpedos. - other games need a bomber to keep the target in their HUD a long time ( like 20 seconds straight in freespace 2 ) in order to have the torpedo lock in. - freelancer doesn t know lock on timers - the torp simply fires like an unguided rocket. so there is no "technical" issue that prevents someone with good aim to even fly circles while he fires. - delivering a torp into a battleship is easy - too easy atm. hitting smaller warships can be more difficult of course... but its not near as hard as hitting the bomber from the capital ships point of view.

so i wouldn t really support that idea either. - bombers are too strong as they are. ( they must be, cause we don t have the number of players that would turn bomber vs. warships into something realistic - i guess only a game like EVE online with its thousands of players can really afford to make it so that several bomber wings are needed to kill a battleship )
imo, bombers could be smaller and faster, if they needed some time to lock in and fly straight ( or as straight as possible ) towards the warship - each side needs a reasonable chance to inflict damage.

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