I think its shape definitely reminds me of the B2 bomber, very sleek and fast. So I think that if this ship is put in, it should have a real high thruster speed complimented with very very bad turning. IE worse than gunship turning. That way, its usefullness would be long jousts at a battleship. This would expose it to lots of gunfire dead on, and be less likey to dodge it than a regular bomber. Then it would drop 2 NOVA torps and fly away to repeat. I think that realy could be done without changing game balance. Obviously it would hinge on its turning being so bad to counter balance the extra NOVA.
Also, maybe not boost power supply to make it drop two torps at the same time, but boost its power regen that in a certain length run it could drop 2 in much quicker succession than a reg bomber.
I came up with a new idea for the torps: how about 2 snacs but not fireable at the same time. Example:
An ordinary bomber would aim his snac and if he misses he would swear his pants off knowing he has to wait 20 seconds for the SNAC to recharge.
While the tactical bomber would use 1 SNAC (since there's not enough energy for 2) and miss, but he would know that he only needs to wait 1-3 seconds for the energy to regenerate so he can fire again. And if he misses again then a) he's a N00B b) the other guy is cheating c) he just can't aim straight due to technical problems like his mouse dieing in a middle of a battle.
1 SNAC would use 51-60% of maximum energy so it takes about 1-3 seconds for it to recharge.
And I was thinking about the agility of a armored transport. I dodged a hacker's snacs from magellan to new york JG in california in one of those so it should be enough (he didn't hit me once). Maybe a little better agility if that hacker was a noob or somethin.
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Well it's a tactical bomber so I'm afraid it would be strictly military...of course there could be some RP stories that would allow it to evolve into civi. However that seems highly unlikely. But the first of these vessels will be in the Order. Since that is what it was meant to be.
And the dual SNAC thing is still negotiable...It could fire dual SNACs if most agree on that.
"When you get the money, you get the power. When you get the power, you get the women."
-by Tony Montana