Bombers rebalance

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Remove SNAC entirely and sell Asuras where SNACs are sold now.

At the current state of the SNAC, might as-well.

Make bombers a bit more agile and increase their gun range and damage.

I have no opinion on the agility, yes, do increase their range cause it makes no sense for a ship specially designed to take out caps to get within flak range of one just to have a chance at landing shots. Alternatively, leave bombers as they are but give the bomber torpedoes better speed and tracking since bomber haters are so adamant that bombers should be anti-cap only, if bombers are not meant to pull their own weight against a fighter, it's only logical for them to excel at killing caps and transports.

Increase fighter gun ranges to 800 too so they are a bit more useful against caps. Also give them a second CD slot and a weaker version of the nova torpedo.

Agreed

Give bombers and fighters a choice of long range, slow, high damage guns, and shorter range, fast, higher efficiency guns. Make energy efficiency low and damage high enough to make mounting both types and switching groups depending on the target a thing (kind of like cap guns are split now).

Sounds good in theory, in practice we got scatterguns at 150 range, if I have to get that close to a fighter to hit it, I might as-well go all in with the torpedoes, and that kills the purpose of the SNAC nerf in the first place.

Buff transport hulls, and don't make gear like armor, shields, and guns take up cargo space. Use the other methods at your disposal to control what armor can be mounted on what ship class. Or at the very least, write how much cargo space they take up in the infocard of everything that takes up cargo space.

Gear didn't use to take up cargo space, this was implemented to compensate for the hull buff and weapon variety that the transports already received, as if someone flying a battle transport is worried about the dent that gear makes in their cargo space. But yes, buff transports even more, that way I can ditch bombers altogether for a Ptrans and take on capital ships.

Nerf cap gun damage enough to make complaints about "cap spam" and "cap piracy" a thing of the past.

Don't. Between transport buffs and bomber nerfs, the powertraders have been pampered too much already. Most traders don't even bother stopping when asked to anymore, they are already not scared anymore of a stumped Roc when they can just shoot it out of the sky or just soak up damage until they make it to the nearest base.

If you don't want traders to laugh at you or be any good vs a cap in a fight, you are pretty much forced to fly Warans or other Waran alternatives that can carry an ASURAS+Nova torp+CD combo, rendering all the other bombers subpar.

If as a bomber pilot I am limited to fighting only caps or transports because "bumbers r not supuzed to fight fughters" then what's the point of having "light bombers" and "agile bombers" in the game anyway when the heavy bombers fulfill the same role with a lot more damage potential?

Heavy bombers: big game hunters, but easy pickings for snubcraft.
Light bombers: less effective against big targets, but can stand their own against snubs.

Logic, no?