Bomber balance

[Jinx]

i wrote it in a separate thread - but what do we want bombers to be...

they must be good against capital ships - but bad against fighters. - how about keeping their good turn rate, but nerfing all bombers strafing, while at the same time increasing strafing of light fighters.

how are bombers supposed to approach capital ships - by strafing or by spiralling towards them using full thrusters and directional changes - or are bombers supposed to sit at allmost maximum range dodging warship fire.

if bombers had no strafe ( as an extreme variant ) - they would be weak against fighters, who have the ability. the bomber would allways have to turn to dodge and so wouldn t be able to dodge AND fire easily. - against a capship, spiralling towards it will make it avoid the capital ship fire - while at the same time of course making firing the supernovas more difficult ( cause you have to keep the ship steady for some time or gotto skill up shooting the supernova out of a full spiralling movement )

would that make bombers too weak against capital ships? - i think not. - when i fly up to a capital ship, i currently use a combination of both, full turning ability - aswell as strafing... but i could avoid being hit without strafing, too - it would make my aiming harder though. ( which i have no problem with - cause i am equipped with a 140k weapon without any ammonition )

no strafe would mean that the bombers would be dead meat against fighters though - now.... is that what we want? when i have such an idea, i find it sometimes hard to think of all the consequences - would like to see thoughts about it...

will it make bombers too hard to fly? useless? maybe pushing them into their place as anti capship, but NOT anti fighter ships?

what i am against is a drastic increase of power - bombers, no matter what size or turn rate must never be able to fire two supernovas, cause that would be too powerful - and i d also have a problem with bombers being able to fire 1 supernova + 1 nova.

it would be a very harsh nerf of bombers, - but their primary mission ( anti capital ship ) would not be nerft too much - however their ability against fighters would suffer greatly.

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