Bomber balance

[Blodo]

I think this would be a case of 'making everything the same' and I wholeheartedly disagree.

Not really, just balancing it more or less out. The point is however that big bombers even with their fat shields and hulls WILL go down faster than small bombers, because they WILL get hit and using this logic they are unfortunately bad against capital ships, which defeats their point.

Actually I'm going with the skeptics here....most bombers work fine... Thor works fine as well IF you keep distance from the capships. This is somehow difficult in the asteroidfield in Omega 5, on the other hand you can hide behind the rocks....

I would agree, if there weren't any gunboats in the mod. As it stands there is no such thing as "keep distance from gunboats" thanks to the speed of the SN and the speed and size of the gunboats themselves. Thors are only manageable in O-5 because you can hide behind asteroids. Believe me, fight capships in open space and you will be surprised at how no matter what you do your shield and hull just goes down. On the other hand funnily enough Thors are quite average against fighters if they get to joust them and the fighter has damaged dodging, like a corsair one. Call me silly, but that's how it is, and I think it's wrong.
An improved powerplant won't change the fact that the Thor just goes poof when fighting big ships.

Another good point is that realistically a bomber should be at an advantage to a capital ship just like a capital ship is at an advantage to a fighter. We can't help it, with so many different ship classes there needs to be teamwork. Currently I can easily say that half of the bombers on disco are jacks of all trades (and as an extension whored, taiidan and catamaran comes to mind) or they are simply useless (thor, barghest, waran). The useless bombers should be buffed in the size and dodge department but should possibly be nerfed when it comes to turning.

The whored bombers could use a nerf or two themselves too. No bomber should be able to out-turn a fighter. And believe me there are some that can.