FTL: about ten dollars
Advanced Edition: Free
Losing three crew members to a hacked medbay: Priceless.

After a few unsuccessful Slug B runs, I learned that you can indeed miss yourself. The trick is to make the pilot leave for a second or two while the bomb does it's work.

No one is saying the Ion bomb is bad. I believe what the OP is saying is that it is too good. I sort of see his point. With just an Ion Bomb and a Burst Mk. II, you can beat the boss given enough missiles and time.

Every enemy shot has an equal chance to hit any room, it's just that some rooms are more equal than others.

The moment they teleport in, start venting everything possible. If not fighting a ship, this will be at most three aired rooms, the med bay, and one or two others for the rest to cower in. Shut off the O2 as well. The mantis shouldn't have enough time to break the 02 before they start worrying about...

Of course in the end, it ends up being no better than killing the enemy crew any other way, as far as scrap generation is concerned.

I was playing as rock A. Made it to 2 jumps away from the boss. Throughout the game I had seen two weapons that didn't use missiles, a found halberd beam and a store pike beam. I also found one of each missile type and each bomb type except ion bomb. My missiles/bombs were hitting around 50% of the ...

I believe this has been confirmed.

If you firebomb a room with Rockmen in it, they take damage.

Since firing the arty beam counts for pilot xp, I believe that they purposefully decided to have the pre-igniter not work.