Is it just me or "Commander is boring"

Enabling collision or at least loose formations in the air layer. Air snipes are so tricky, because the Flak cannon is the only AoE defense while bombers can be stacked quite easily for virtually unlimited damage output. Unlike land unit blobs, where you can stack only so many before the back row units can't get into firing range.

Either that, or enable (small) AoE for all AA.

good idea.

Air collision boxes would be interesting, but it would need a lot of pathfinding tuning since bombers would have difficulties to hit their targets if they push themselves to the side... but of course it would be the most elegant solution.
maybe bombers could be changed to more something like carpet bombers, they fly in formations and drop bombs on everything beneath them, and so in one flybye they do a lot of damage but not to a single target.
Gunships are then the sniping aircraft.

Vannila bombers are carpet bombers.

Cloakable Commanders...

yeah but thats not my point

commander needs to be faster and needs to have a better ubercannon, with slight regeneration. That'd be good enough, honestly.

No regeneration, please.

Regeneration is the main issue preventing any commander usage for fights.

@ZaphodX is making a mod for that, using Commander Regeneration

Vannila bombers are carpet bombers

light regeneration works, nothing excessive, but enough so that I shouldn't have to manually repair my commander to get him up to health.

Individually yes. As a stack not so much.

Each bomber drops a line of bombs, but you can stack the together so you get a single line of hundreds of bombs. True carpet bombing would require the bombers to fly in a grid thus spreading the damage over a wider area. If you wanted to snipe a particular target then the bombers would have to fly in a long single file line or a cross pattern, spreading them a bit and making it a lot easier to take them out with non-aoe aa. It would also slow the damage rate on the comm to make large snipes something that aren't almost totally unavoidable (if unforeseen).

I'd like to see the change at least for bombing runs, and it makes sense in terms of suspension of disbelief. Stackable air makes some sense in general flight, they're moving in 3 dimensions so there's no reason they can pass over or under each other (maybe not 50 at a time but let's not be to picky). For bombing runs however bombers should try and use formations or cross patterns as stacked bombers should hit each other if they are above other bombers.

wrong you should have to repair him ... that light regen would only be good for when your opponent hasnt attacked you for long enough say if he managed to take your comm down to 10 percent it would need like 15 to 20 minutes to fully recover ... imo that is a lot enough time ...

Although regen for the commander would be nice to use it more aggressive, you should first deal with the main problem causing passive commanders: its health capacity.

Really what we all want is Kommander Krogoth with his blue laser of death (that thousand yard stare).

You know, there's all those nice avatars you can select in the game which are just cosmetic? Wouldn't it be nice if they had different stats and abillities. As a mod people could play, making some slow and armoured, others fast and agile, and one with dual heavy duty gauss cannons, blue (because blue is cool) nose mounted particle laser and a backpack missile launcher who's missiles are bigger than your car.

no it wouldnt .. as you have to pay for them

what needs to be dealt with is that beside regen it should be possible to repair it a bit easier ... just so that more aggresive pushs are possible but not making the comm a bulletsponge

And you can already do that by moving the T1 bombers over targets rather then giving an attack order.

@infowars see League of Commanders

I'm aware that you can do it. What Kryo seemed to be suggesting was that it should be the default behaviour in order to lower the single point damage of a swarm of bombers. An opinion I agree with. Planes are so much faster than any other vehicle and there is no cost for cost hard counter. Even if I have as many fighters/spinners as my opponent has fighters and bombers their speed means he is likely to still land a significant amount of damage on my comm. Only flak turrets offer any real defence and they require advanced tech. Spreading bombers by default would make them carpet bomb the area around the comm, killing of land units/buildings and damaging the comm but reducing the likelihood that only one or two passes would result in a successful snipe.

I honestly think the main reason aggressive commander pushes are not possible because of the health capacity mainly. Getting the health back after you pushed is nice, but in the current game you don't even push with com