Bombers rebalance

[Egon Bigmemes]

After the snac nerf, bombers seem to fill in the quite specific role of anti-cap support.

Why yes, that was sort of the original intention of a slow, heavy ordinance carrying craft.

This is because as of right now they can't oppose fighters (except super heavy fighters)

The bigger and slower the bomber, the tankier they are and, yes, less likely to oppose fighters. Some Light Bombers (the bergelmir being a specific example) can and will take dumps on fighters if flown properly. Bombers deal full damage to everything bigger than VHFs. So the majority of ship classes in the mod, with potential to instakill bombers, freighters, and SHFs, smaller gunboats, and kill all caps.

nor gunboats.

Objectively wrong, consider using more than Novas and hellfire missiles against gunboats.

My suggestion would be to bring back the snac 1-shot kills for smaller ships

No.

(not like I can hit them anyway or it registers the hit when I do)

How is this relevant? And, if you hit something on your screen, you hit it. The game is entirely client-side hit detection, meaning that if it hits on your screen, you hit them, even if it didn't hit on their screen.

Even some anti-fighter class 4 codenames could do the job of giving bombers some anti-fighter measures!

Why do bombers have to be specifically set up to fight fighters? If you want to be big and tanky and able to fight fighters and capital ships, pick a SHF. Ships should not be extremely good at one thing, and have all-around capability everywhere else. SHFs are in that weird balance state where, if you're any good, are very scary 1v1 in fighter duels, and can still pump out damage against caps. Some SHFs are as tanky as gunboats and put out even more DPS, and draining their core 10 times slower than gunboats.

I hate people wanting bombers to be incredibly good at everything, and I especially hate people wanting bombers to instakill everything that isn't a big dick capital ship.