why not introduce the t2 bomb? .

This honestly makes me a little sad. It was a fun little quirk of bombs.

Nah. The CSM works because it allows for the representation of a much larger number of players. A forum post can be made by anyone.

You mean like maybe %10 of the player base, who only does sov nullsec?

Or else I dont know how you can explain only one of them not having ties to nullsec blob alliances.

Bomb Changes
Bombs now have a Minimum Velocity of 1m/s that you must be traveling at before you can launch. This is to fix some issues that can happen when your velocity is 0, causing the bomb not to move and just explode on you.

The Defender Launcher I has a 120 second reactivation timer.

I think everyone appreciates the effort to make the defender missiles and their skills actually do something. But as a dozen people have already said.... nobody bombs anymore. Bombs are so lacking in utility or efficacy, this is the gravestone of bombing as a whole. Unless this release is PAIRED with a whole new suite of bombs, "bombing" will be all but forgotten.

Here is a list of crazy new utility to bombing that you could include:

High speed bombs that travel (and detonate) faster
High range bombs that go faster with the same travel time
Proximity bombs that detonate when a ship is within 50% of its explosion range
E-war bombs that produce a single use of effects like the supers aoe projections
Shrapnel bombs that do enormous damage to drones, but very little to ships
High radius bombs with lower damage and better application
persistent effect bombs that produce an aoe affect bubble that travels with it during its entire flight time

If you're going to let people shut down bombing runs, you need to make sure people want to bomb.

maybe balance the nerf by making the bombs explode even after the bombers death...but i bet on legacy code

This will be the fourth or fifth nerf to bombing runs in what, one and a half years? It seemed to me on CSM X that the signal radius, warp speed, bomb flight time, and input broadcasting nerfs succeeded in reducing abusive bombing runs.

As other users pointed out, it doesn't seem bombing runs are so oppressive that they need a fourth nerf. Perhaps this would be the time to consider rolling back one or two of the previous nerfs? Doing so will actively encourage more Defender Missile pilots anyway.

state ur reasoning

[read: make up some reasoning now u brown-nosing pizza ****]

oh wait i forgot u just blindly agree with anything that nerfs things u don't do nor ever will do

Cycle time or reload ammo time?

and like i previously said, fozziesov and being unable to predict the location of engagements already severely hampers a bomber wings ability to influence an engagement. adding more required pilots per bomb wave through these launchers just ensures less people will be willing to try it

edit also so u know im not talkin out of my ass

https://zkillboard.com/character/1107018389/topalltime/

almost 3,000 confirmed kills in a purifier on my main (noone uses their main to bomb anymore)
my corporation was and still is by far the #1 bombing corp in the game
https://zkillboard.com/ship/12038/topalltime/

we only used purifiers for bombing, almost never torping

i fc'd some bomber fleets in my time in PANDEMIC LEGION (aka the best alliance in the game) also, but the above fozziesov changes to predicting where fights would happen rendered it an effort in wasting everyones time on a lot of occasions. i do not think this is a flaw of fozziesov, nor something that needs changing mind you, I'm just trying to illustrate that bombing is a dying activity and does not need the assisted suicide attempted in this thread

state ur reasoning

[read: make up some reasoning now u brown-nosing pizza ****]

oh wait i forgot u just blindly agree with anything that nerfs things u don't do nor ever will do

waste of goddamn time

fozzie sov was enough of a nerf to bombing already, this is totally unnecessary

noone is bombing currently in eve because you reliably cannot predict where the fight will be and bombing requires some setup time

these changes would have been good 2 years ago

now adays test and friends are literally flying around in the most bombable doctrines in history but noone can be bothered bombing them because its impossible to predict where engagements will happen and super dds are just better bombs anyway, not to mention the general power creep of ehp/speed making bombs harder than ever to land

in adition 0 velocity bombs was some of the hardest **** to pull off and almost never saw any use so removing it for no reason i dont even understand, you just dont want people to be able to innovate?

thanks for the final nail o7 bongers

here is a suggestion because i guess i should be constructive

make them target drones or anyone using ecm on you instead

What if: Bombs detonated when destroyed?

That would reduce the need of multi-waved bomb run, would allow to mix various bomb types and other fun opportunities: get in front of fleet at 10-15 km, fire them bombs at fleet and LET defenders destroy their own fleet.

Hence the desire for a 3rd Cov Ops role deploying Rapid Light Launchers instead of Torps.

Bringing my 2 posts together, in my fevered little newbie mind

My god you guys seem to have some serious love for destroyers lately.

Will these modules also impact guided bombs from structures?

So the distance of two bombs from the launch point will not make a difference? If one is 5km, another 15 or 20km, it could just as easily go for the 15-20km one?

Cycle time or reload ammo time?

Do missile guidance disruptors work on these new Defender missiles?

What if a defender missile is going after a bomb and that bomb gets blown up by another defender missile, does it retarget to another bomb?

Why would you not announce the details of this new feature at EDU in person?

also some variety in bombs would be cool: velocity, range, aoe, maybe even other effects along the lines of void bombs (web, sensor strength, tracking disruption)

Trying to find more fleet roles for the null-sec alphas, perhaps?
What's next? Defender missiles shooting down bubbles, eh?