EVE General Discussion

A proper anti-support hurricane can lock in the time it takes you to motor out or align from the bubble edge. If you train people to constantly look for bombers, you will begin to see fits with scan res's pushing ~1600 which can lock up frigate sized targets in virtually no time. Sure it has a paper thin tank: But when your tootling in the middle of a big battleship fleet which is a juicy target for bombers: No one shoots the hurricane.

Because generally speaking AOE is something reserved for nullsec. AOE warp disruption, AOE damage, etc.

You can also align out towards the bubble and still warp out!

But let him beleive the right way to counter a bombing run is to sit in bubble. There is noooooooooo way another cloacky will give a good warp spot without getting the squad bubbled and i am sure those stoopid bombers will not have a warp out point so even a ceptor wont be able to lock them! Sure it will end well for those smart guys in their own bubble!

Why aren't bombs aloud in low sec?

CCP still wants consequences for Low Sec agression.

Low Sec has consequences, just not as many consequences as High Sec. Low Sec space has gate and station guns. Everything that aggresses on gate or station gets shot at by those same guns. If a person can bomb a gate, and if your a bomber pilot worth anything at all your going to be aligned out for insta warp right after you launch your bomb, you can get around the consequences of Low Sec gate/station gun fire.

In the Age of Terrorism...is it too much to ask for bombs in high-sec also?

1: CCP as a general rule disallows the use of AOE weapons or defenses in Low Sec (smart bombs being an exception). That being said when you consider the nature of low sec combat, predominately being comprised of ships that would be excellent targets for a bombing run, I would enjoy it immensely if bombs were allowed.

2: Not to talk down to anyone, but bubbles work very much to a bombers advantage... far more often than they get themselves snared in one. As a bomber pilot with hundreds of kills to bombing runs, few targets are as juicy as a ton of cruiser (and down) ships MWDing across a bubble to get to or leave the area of a gate. Dropping a bomb and warping out intact is simplicity itself, and as long as you remember not to cloak until detonation occurs you are halfway across system when the kill reports start showing up.

The lack of bubbles in Low Sec means that bombing runs would be more challenging. Catching groups on the move would be unlikely, however gate camps would still be prime targets. An attentive member of a gate camp would still be able to jump through or warp away from the gate in time, but we all know how inattentive many members of a gate camp can be (until the first bomb detonates anyway).

3: I believe CCP is a little concerned about the havoc bombs could wreak on people attempting PVE activities in Low Sec, something they very much want to encourage. I think their view is that enabling bomb use would simply give the bomber pilot too big an advantage considering some of the other restrictions of Low Sec.

Hopefully at some point they will reconsider.

That is a really really really old school way of doing it.

That looks more like a small gang way of doing it. The big bomber gangs you see used to take down say an entire battleship fleet behaves entirely differently because it has to be launched in waves, they have to be well timed and fast, and they have to be tightly packed as a big fuckoff fleet tends to spread on gates if the FC isn't a ******. Put succinctly we've rarely had a bomb land on us when bubbling up to protect the fleet, and that includes when we were facing White Noise's bomber wing which was considered at the time some of the best in the game (And also the only pack of their pilots who were willing to come out and fight).

You are never going to align to a point 180 degrees or more from your bomb run heading in time.

I have seen tons of bombing run attempts against CFC fleets, and have never seen one do much real damage. They tend to get picked off almost instantly, and can't do much damage to a spread fleet sitting in a few bubbles.

90. I'm tired.

Point is, it ain't happening. I've seen enough bombers try and fail miserably to know that.