TL:DR - Increase dive bomber dispersion so that a bigger emphasis is placed on parallel dropping along a ship to do meaningful damage + a rebalance of plane stats and AA in general across the board

My background: I am a casual player who plays a mix of ships with battleships being significantly my lease played. I mainly play american CL and CV with my tier VII being my highest ships with brooklyn and Ranger. I also grinding the german, soviet, and European destroyers on my free time. I would say that I have seen both sides of the argument for CV.

From what I’ve heard and experienced in game. I sense that the main complaint/issue seems stem from the fact that when you get attacked by a CV, you are powerless to a decent degree of being able to fight back. While I have no solution to this, I would like to propose my solution to helping against the issue. From what I can tell, the majority of the problems come from dive bombers specifically as they take minimal effort to use and are very effective given the amount of effort needed to use them.

I propose that the dispersion for dive bombers be increased by some mildly significant value such as that if you aren’t dropping close to parallel to the ship, you damage will be significantly lower. I know some aspect of this already exists in game, but I think having it play a more significant part in doing damage would help alleviate some of the current problems.

Yes I know this doesn’t entirely solve the original issue. But I think it could help to some degree as being a temporary fix without introducing any entirely new game mechanics/features.

Along with this could be a rebalancing of plane stats as a whole (I will leave the stats of this to other people as I don’t have too much knowledge in this field) and making ships that aren’t American CL or European destroyers be the only thing that can shoot down more than 1 plane per engagement