Bomber balance

[Jinx]

i find the whole rebalancing ( and mostly improving ) discussion funny. - you are all aware that bombers are by FAR more powerful than they are supposed to be... i guess. - the balance makes it so that a pair of them or three can take down most capital ships ( thats what they are supposed to do .... they are not supposed to do well against fighters... i would actually love to see them drop like flies when fighting any fighter class ship )

improving bombers against fighters means that they get improved against their original targets, too - and we also know that there is a strong lobby that would rather eat pus than have warships gain some of their deserved strength again ( cause the term "cap-whore" is such a neat knock-out argument )

bombers are much more agile than they should be. - they don t need to approach warships in a straight line or need a lockon time for their torpedos. they can practicly shoot those in a fly-by mode while dodging. ( allmost no other sci-fi simulator allows bombers such a flexibility ) - they are not bigger than fighters and some are just as agile in both strafing and turning. ( no, i don t care for numbers, i care for how it feels to fly them and how it feels to hit them )

furthermore bombers carry a weapon that is the most efficient weapon in the entire game that can be used both - for anti capital ship combat aswell as antifighter combat, they have a great amount of armour that is even further improved by the multiplier.

and yes, my most active char is flying a bomber, too - still i don t like it how strong these ships are. it feels utterly stupid to fight against a warship with hundreds of crewmembers, turrets that are worth more than my entire bomber and still, i can dance around the ship, i can deal more damage to it and i don t even need to look at the ammunition, cause the godly weapon doesn t require some.

i would gladly take a nerf to all bombers - so that i simply avoid fighters. - too bad, i can go against most VHF just aswell.... and thats wrong. the BHG bomber is one of the best - i know... but it feels stupid how much that ship works against everything. - i would really gladly see its turning rate and agility nerft to 50% of what it is now. - fighters should make me tremble and make me retreat... they should not make me smirk and upload the "shieldbreaker/supernova" configuration and have a free go.

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