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Nighthawk, I doubt you even read my first post.

Wrong. I read your post. It was about making the SNAC do different damage to fighter class vessels, but leave freighter class vessels receiving the same damage. However, since you're such a hypocrite, did you not read my post where I responded to your first post by saying: It is not possible. There is no distinction between the armour on fighters and freighters. This thread is no longer about that, now, it seems.

And there lies the problem as I see it. The tactics fighter needs to win against bomber invariably involve lengthy combat. That in it self would not be such a big problem in man versus man or in furballs.

Not necessarily. When my shield drops in a bomber vs another bomber I use a tactic to dodge the SNAC. I don't know how to explain it, cause I do it by instinct. The same tactic is useful in fighters. You can still deal damage to bombers and dodge an SN in the same pass. I can kill a bomber pretty fast in a Greyhound with x4 Sammaels, I'd imagine it'd be a lot easier if I had x2 shield busters and x4 hull busters.

BUT it becomes a big problem in mixed fleet engagements. Fighters that are trying to flying escort are not just effective enough. Invariably in the 30 mins it takes to wear down the bomber attacking your cap the bomber has done the deed. As of now bombers can go on about their business attacking the caps with near impunity. A good bomber pilot does not have to worry about the 2-3 fighters trying to hamper his runs.

It just takes too long for fighters to be effective against a single bomber making the runs to really fulfill fighter's role as bomber suppressant. As of now the ratio to render a bomber inefficient is 1:3 or 1:4. I'd like to see the ratio more close to 1:2

By cutting the amount of bots available to bomber this effect could be cured a bit.

So... you want to nerf Bombers for carrying out their intended roles now? Right. That's what I gathered from your post. And believe me, it is a lot harder to kill capital ships in a bomber when you have a bunch of fighters on your tail who can aim worth a damn. I believe I posted an example of that earlier in this thread.

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