I'd like to inhibit my enemy, but not necessarily their weapons. Because the fuse on the weapon is contact-based (judging from the description), I can this being abused in CQC fairly easily. Speaking of which, I'm not seeing the grenade being viable outside CQC unless it has some uber chucking range and possibly greater effect range.

I agree we should have some non-damaging AI grenades, but I'd rather see the enemy be hampered rather than able to be completely screwed over. Example: the Scrambler Grenade from this post reduces an enemies speed and makes their vision blurry (see the video about the Volt Driver). As a result, their defensive capabilities are weakened because they cannot move as quickly and their offensive capabilities are weakened because they cannot see correctly (and thus cannot aim correctly). Even just the vision disruption would do something to the same effect of offensive & defensive hampering. The grenade makes operation difficult, but not impossible.

The concern I have with your proposal is that the victim would not be able to respond. Non-Amarr Logis would be sitting ducks, and even if a person anticipated the incoming grenade, whatever they switch to would be disabled, resulting in them having to switch back. The grenade seems to make people just too easy pickings and unable to respond in a reasonable manner or possibly have a chance to respond decently.

i can see this being good for tanks i.e you need to run past it but as anti infantry i just don't see it working. all it will mean is everyone carrying them. 2.5 sec's is a dead merc. by the time you switch to sidearm you are already on your way to dying horribly . also remember not everyone has a sidearm to switch to and with ttk already very low this would certainly kill off most of the remaining player base

yes for use against tanks and no for use against infantry except maybe heavy weapons

The main reason shields are so vulnerable is because there is no response (ie: recovery) to Flux nades, hence the need for a shield "rep tool" (see the other posts floating around atm, can link them if you'd like) or some type of active resistor. Locus grenades do kill, but they are not guaranteed; most must be skillfully timed to be used effectively. The time of a reload is more than enough for either a Shotgun or most other weapons to drop someone in a gunfight or by surprise, like ADAM-OF-EVE hinted. The CQC would be abuse because there's no where to run for sitting ducks; if one knowingly disables someone, the momentum keeps moving. Also, Shotgun Scouts.

Why bother when a locus grenade can nearly kill everyone in a 5m rad?

I would much rather 1 shot my enemy with a core grenade.

This would be much better if we had a tactical grenade slot.