saronsen summary of 5.0

[Petitioner]

As a former bomber main, I can confidently state that I have no intention of flying them for now because they're simply too weak to be effective. Even in large groupfights, I feel like I'm not actually doing anything, and am there more as cannon fodder than to provide so much as chip damage. Light and medium gunboats can do anything a bomber used to be able to do, and do it just as good or even better. The fact that formerly bomber-heavy factions like the Xenos and the Mollys are now turning to gunboat swarms to overwhelm fleets that largely consist of fighters and cruisers should be good evidence of this; bombers are only useful against gunboats, on the condition that they can dogpile the gunboat at a 3:1 or even higher ratio. I've always valued fair play in pvp encounters, so maybe it's a skill issue on my part, but bombers just don't feel fun anymore if you want to maintain a modicum of ethics while flying them.

The exception to this is with battleships. I haven't flown heavy gunboats or any caps since the update dropped, but even a swarm of medium gunboats struggles to deal with a battleship—I think this is good from a balance perspective, but not when bombers are also nigh-useless against battleships. Not every faction has access to cruisers, and those factions are usually the ones who get shot at by battleships the most.

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