Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello !
New idea bringed up by : Daichi Yamato and Drake Barski

so buff the radius to 20 km and increase the damage slightly to 10000 damage
So if the bombs had a 5 % reduction per KM away from the center it would be

1km 9500
2km 9000
3km 8500
4km 8000
5km 7500
6km 7000
7km 6500
8km 6000
9km 5500
10km 5000
and etc

Would make it easier to take out specfic targets and harder to wipe the whole fleets , bring abit more tactics into bombing














old idea
So i have been flying in big fleets 50 + fleets . A couple of times we got wiped by a squad of bombers , In my opinion a couple of people should not be able to wipe a 50 man fleets , It's not fun .


So my idea is change how the bombs works .

So let's say that a bomb do 7000 damage , instead of doing 7000 damage to everyone it hits , The damage should be splited .
If a bomb hits a 10 man fleet it should only do 700 damage to each person instead of the current 7000 damage .


What do you think about my idea ?

Bombers need a change



/Zalmea

i completly understand and support that , But still a 5 man fleet should not be able to wipe a 50 man fleet .

Another idea , For each target the bomb hits reduce the damage by 5 % or something like that =)

I would say that it would make sense that the bomb does the most damage at its epicenter - where the actual explosion occurs, then dissipates as it goes out, doing less and less damage depending how far away from the center you are - if a bomb had a blast radius of 10km for example, then it would do 7,000 damage if you are within 999k, then 6,500 within 1,000 to 1,999k, and so on until at 9,501k to 9,999k it only does 250 damage. This would make them more realistic and true to actual real-life physics.

In addition, one could argue that a ship's defenses are better equipped to negate or counterbalance the bomb damage depending on how much defense it has left. A ship with max shields would be able to absorb and/or dissipate a higher percentage of the incoming damage than a ship that was already into its armor, which would absorb/dissipate more than a ship that only had hull HP left.

These changes together would add more need for strategy and timing when bombing - fire too soon and the target(s) tank the damage and live, too late and they are out of range or at least farther away, and thus taking less damage.

This is my off-the-cuff, spitballing opinion. What do YOU think?

*its.

P.S.: You're welcome.

Makes sence with EM, Thermal and Gravitational bombs aswell , Since its still a bomb , electric magnetic fields get weaker the futher away it travels , Thermal also gets weaker , and so is the case with Gravity

EVERY bomb explodes - you're arguing the semantics of a bomb's type - Zalmea brings up a good point: the source of heat is felt less the farther from it you are, gravity has less of an effect if you are farther from the source, et cetera...

what?

u said bomb damage should be absorbed by shields more than armour, and then again more by armour than structure.

thats what explosive damage does.
However, with EM bombs and EM damage, shields should absorb less and armour should absorb more.

And of course its a little different again for thermal and kin damage.

i quoted the part of the post i was replying to...its not semantics, u two are confused.

Maybe that would increase their application against cap ships. could be fun.

No. No. No. The bolded part is kinda the whole point of bombs. They bring a bit more tactics into a game of blobbing. You can't just toss a thousand ishtars into a single ball and win.

Most of eve is decided by N+1. What eve needs is to bring a bit more tactics into fleeting, not just "bring a thousand more sentry ishtars" or a thousand more archons or w/e the current retardation happens to be. Bombs are a tiny part of a solution to a much, much bigger problem.

If thats true then im surprised ishtars are popular for sov fights.

Ppl defending the ishtar in 'the ishtar is OP' threads say that ishtars are paper thin in tank and gallente arent known for their small sigs.

There cant be many a more perfect target for bombs than ishtar blobs, but they are still widely used.