Talk:"Genius"/@comment-174.79.50.198-20180411204810/@comment-454133-20180412034423

Given how brutal Genius Nym was (especially when combined with Sabine on Miranda Doni, but also in Scum where he could bomb with impunity), IMO nerfing from orbit was the right call. It fixed a big problem.

You can still use Ordnance Tokens, so Extra Munitions is a good call with any of Nym's bombs, including Bomblet Generator (and as Zuvio pointed out, the discard  nerf only affects Bomblets).

And as for the bump issue... it matters a lot that Nym can no longer consistently ram his way into a ship and deal unavoidable damage. If the nerf bat feels too harsh here, that's probably because you were lucky and didn't experience how Genius was being used pre-nerf, at least not on the receiving end. But it was such a big problem it got a nerf surprisingly fast, and that's crazy-rare given FFG's normal glacial pace.

Many (probably most?) players see the Genius nerf as a success story. Genius was making the game really unfun for anyone who fought him, and FFG responded and took the edge off. The game got better. That does hurt for casual players who weren't abusing it (or at least, who don't think they were), but it makes people happier overall by fixing a serious exploit, and that feels like a positive development to me.