Bomber Balance

[Karlotta]

Sounds to me like you're playing with people who are not outright cheating, but their intent is to win, rather than have fun. There's an easy way to deal with people like that, you don't interact with them.

Then you wouldn't be interacting with any of the official factions, because they all do it.

And if people stopped doing it, the'd give the people who do it in a hidden way an even bigger advantage than they have when everyone does it.

I think we can all agree that what you're describing isn't In the spirit of the game, and isn't fun. It's also completely impossible to enforce any sort of rules around, though I suspect you could enforce something around docking to change chars to engage - if we can enforce it after an interaction has started, there's no reason we couldn't use the same methods for this, it'd just be as simple as stating "the interaction starts when the ship is seen on scanners and can be identified".

But here's the deal, no amount of enforcement is going to help this, because these people are already skirting the rules on technicalities, using outside methods of communication, etc. I doubt that the GMs could bring this sort of behavior under control. But you've got a VERY good way to do it. Just don't play with them. If they don't want to play fair, don't play with them. It seems like you know who the people that do this are, so if you see them, just go somewhere else and don't play with them. Find some people to play with who do want to have fair engagements and have fun.

This isn't a balance issue, it's a people issue. Even if you buff the bomber guns some, it won't matter, because the people that are taking advantage of you now will just change their tactics to get their edge some other way. You can start an endless stream of discontent and tweaks that in the end never work right, or you can solve the problem and stop playing with people who have no interest in playing fair with you. Move to the other side of the sector or something, find some new people to play with on the other side of Sirius.

As i said, this is the standard behavior of almost all "vets" here, there is no fix to the behavior itself, and telling people to not interact with 80% of the population isn't a fix, it kills the game instead. Making judgmental posts also isn't going to fix anything.

What we CAN do, is mitigate the negative impacts and potential for abuse of the behavior, by making balancing less rock-paper-scissor like.

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