Player Features and Ideas Discussion

A: Amazing at blapping dictors. Very hard to get a good set of dictor bubble on them long enough to get a bomb wave thrown.

B: Speedy little bastards. If moving then they are very very hard to actually hit with bombs, much less multiple bomb waves coordinated from different directions.

Ordinary BC's and cruisers though tend to be just as flimsy as a kiting Ishtar, yet far less agile, slower, far easier to pin down with dictors, and lacking t2 resists, tend to violently explode with a single wave of bombs.

Dessies ofc tend to die when you look crosseyed at them, especially when you start mixing 30km aoe weapons and MWDing dessies. Only got to land 1-2 bombs..

i can guess why they think ishtars are so widely used despite being such an apparently tasty target for bombs.

I say nerf bombs so that you need a few more of them to achieve the same results you do currently. A squad of ISBoxer bombers is less effective than a squad of experienced player-controlled bombers (it is very easy to miss click or have ISBoxer not transmit a command properly), so the issue is not ISBoxer. The issue is that a relatively small number of bombers can inflict disproportionate damage. If you had to use twice as many bombs to achieve the same result, ISBoxer bomber squads would be less prevalent, but bombers could still be an effective anti-blob weapon.