Bombers rebalance

[Hemlocke]

Anyone jousting a bomber deserves to be instakilled with a snac, or nova, you don't joust a bomber with a nova, you don't joust a bomber period, nor should you ever, if you're in a snub, fighting something you can out turn, there is absolutely no reason to slam into their face and cry about getting 1shot.

I see bombers beating HF and VHF all the time ?

I find it unlikely you "always see heavy fighters (a class that is now meant solely for turning) and VHFs (most of which still turn) die to bombers" considering you strictly fly capitals and nobody flies bombers on the regular. You have proof of that claim I'd love to see it, my guess, you either don't see this at all and are claiming you do, or you saw a new player attack a bomber in a snub and get wiped cause they had no idea what they were doing, which doesn't happen a lot either.

Omicega is right, bombers are insanely slow, the only good ones are the heavy bombers, and they're still far slower than any snubcraft, and with only 4 guns across the board, they can't even come close to dishing enough gun damage out to kill a snub unless said snub has an entire lack of brain cells or experience.

The snac was nerfed in a time where there was an abundant amount of new players that had no clue what they were doing and got 1shot by something they barely understood, so they punished the community that had been there a long time for the sake of new players that "might" stick around and "very unlikely might" not be toxic like most of the community still is. Which is ridiculous.

The argument that bombers shouldn't be able to defend themselves against fighters is a stupid one made by people that don't want to have to adapt to something new entering the meta. In bomber's current state there is essentially no counterplay to fighters, except the usual mine/CD combo which isn't that hard to avoid by just dropping a CD on the bomber. When there is no counterplay to something, the fun is zapped right out of it, people are forced to sit there and do absolutely nothing because there is nothing they can do. I'll draw a parallel to the current state of Battlecruisers, everyone's probably noticed the lack of cruisers (that aren't heavy) in comparison to battlecruisers, with a ship being just as fast as you, far stronger than you, and capable of killing battleships, allbeit over a long period of time. that also has flaks to screw a class of ship specifically designed to counter it, why fly cruisers?

It's the similar situation, you have to get multiple bombers in the sky to make even a minute difference, and being entirely unable to defend itself against smaller craft, and most bombers being utter crap compared to their heavy bomber brethren there isn't much reason to fly them when you could just instead use a capital which because of the bomber's current state is far better.

Bombers need a change badly, and the rework is coming soon, everyone just chillax.