If bombs were ever allowed in lowsec the first thing I'd do is setup a bombing run on this guy called Capt Tenguru who multiboxes 20 Tengus in Black Rise lowsec doing L5 missions heh.

but back to topic, I'd agree with Gregor, theres no real reason, it's just to keep different flavours in lowsec and nullsec.

For the same reason you can't anchor bubbles in low sec.

and that would be? I totally agree with no bubbles, but not with no bombing. Again, I never heared the actual reason for the ban on bombs in lowsec....

For the same reason that you can't DD with a Titan in lowsec.

So you are saying it is overpowered? 8k dmg in a 30km radius is overpowered then, compared to 11k alphanadoes, 12k dps supercarriers,15k dps morosses, titan bridges, which all ARE allowed.... im still not convinced....

No, just... no.

Why do you want to use bombs in lowsec?

To clean off FW plexes from farmers, it'd take a few nights before they understood that "Manticore" is a frigate which you can't run away with stabs if you divert your attention for just 8 seconds from the screen.

I know this has real issues as you could just guard the said plexes with SB's quite effectively but it'd also create good kill mails to those who enjoy fast frigs.

Recently I've seen a number of players who will sit cloaked on warp gates waiting for pods to come along. They decloak, pop the smartie on the victim, and warp to a pre-aligned safe spot all in nearly same instant. I don't see how this doesn't count as exploiting a loophole in the cloaking recalibration delay intended for non-covops ships.

Bombs do almost nothing to non propped frigs, try actually playing the game before whining it should be changed...

Hey Lorraine you should shut your hole before I come over there in my spaceship and beat the crap out of you, you stupid ***** wimp. I will climb into your pod and punch you in the solar plexus until you cry like a baby.

They use black ops battleships for this, which do not have cloaking recalibration delays.

Regular battleships cannot activate smartbombs during the recalibration period.

The problem I see is that Smartbombs are allowed, but regular Bombs aren't. They have the same area-damage effect, albeit in lessor amount and range.

Recently I've seen a number of players who will sit cloaked on warp gates waiting for pods to come along. They decloak, pop the smartie on the victim, and warp to a pre-aligned safe spot all in nearly same instant. I don't see how this doesn't count as exploiting a loophole in the cloaking recalibration delay intended for non-covops ships.

I'd say that if they did anything, they should change that delay to effect weapon activation, rather than targeting, and allow for some reduced effect to regular bombs in Lowsec. Shorter radius and a little less damage, perhaps?

Just my two cents.

There really isn't any good reason. I can understand why we don't want bubbles but bombs should be allowed no problem.

Because the tears from risk adverse nerds who launch a bomb and get instapoped by gate guns would blot out the sun.

Which reminds me,

Remove Gate guns in low-sec