OK so I am going to try to reply to each of the points you made. Obviously you love the FG so I assume you are a bit biased in your original post.

1) you say heavies are easiest to kill. Well nobody runs around with a FG in normal assault range. They are almost always on a tower and in fact are the hardest to kill while they are up high because they can easily find cover from fire below. So this point you make is a bit irrelevant.

2) FGers require heavy squad support. This is true and also plays into a point I will make later which makes FGers extra hard to remove from towers.

3) CQC? I think I cover that in 1...

4) Tower FG. OK so this is where the FG dominates. You say, how many towers are in the game? I have news for you, there are a lot and most of them can cover and completely protect an objective with a FG. You can't just fly a derpship up there because, oh wait there's a forge gunner up there. Plus, the FGer has squad support which usually means at least one logi who has drop up links, nanohives, etc. So what your saying is, that it isn't hard to fly a dropship, that gets one hit by a forge gun, up to the tower, drop infantry and take down a heavy, a logi, probably a few other enemies, and the drop uplinks. Well again, I have news for you, it's pretty challenging.

5) solo FGers... Well again, obviously they won't be solo. This would be no problem.

I am not complaining about the FG just yet, just saying the points you make aren't that accurate or relevant to the true power of the FG.

The real issue with the forge gun is, once you have a well supported FGer on a tower it is near impossible to remove / takes a lot of effort while the rest of the blueberries are busy getting over run. Furthermore, this FGer can fully defend against vehicles and completely lock down one objective at the same time. This is OP, plain and simple. I like the FG, it's a lot of fun and I think it should be powerful, but it's splash damage and travel speed make it a beast at taking out infantry. To add more, the thing is extremely easy to aim. Anyone who says it isn't is either terrible or lying, period.

My solution is to reduce the splash and slightly decrease the projectile velocity. In other words increasing the skill needed to use it while keeping the same power.

Your 47K isk infantry weapon does 126 less damage than my 900K proto rail gun. while having the same ROF.

This isn't a "railgun turrets are UP thread".

Seriously though, what would you be able to do with a damage buff that you can't do now besides take out installations a bit faster? You can OHK infantry just like we can, but you have a much farther range than the FG.

Just witness a 50/6 Team Player guy with a forge gun in a domination. It cant be just skill, he camped on top of one of the 6 huge towers.

Say what you will but a score like that cant be only skills. Lets just say that in a sense I was happy he was on my side, but its a serious WTF moment...

Most forge gun I see now are campers making huge amount of kills, is that the real intended behaviour with this weapon ?

If only one thing was changed on the FG I'd have it be projectile speed. As it stands now, reticule turns red and they're dead. There has to be a draw back for such a relatively small weapon putting out that much power and maintaining said power over such a distance and that would be how fast you can send the projectile at the target. Not even plasma cannon slow but someplace between the PC speed and the current speed. Would take more skill to hit a DS but a tank would still be reasonably easy to hit unless they hit the fuel injectors. Hitting moving infantry from a tower would be harder as well.

Just witness a 50/6 Team Player guy with a forge gun in a domination. It cant be just skill, he camped on top of one of the 6 huge towers.

Say what you will but a score like that cant be only skills. Lets just say that in a sense I was happy he was on my side, but its a serious WTF moment...

Most forge gun I see now are campers making huge amount of kills, is that the real intended behaviour with this weapon ?

Just witness a 50/6 Team Player guy with a forge gun in a domination. It cant be just skill, he camped on top of one of the 6 huge towers.

Say what you will but a score like that cant be only skills. Lets just say that in a sense I was happy he was on my side, but its a serious WTF moment...

Most forge gun I see now are campers making huge amount of kills, is that the real intended behaviour with this weapon ?

If only one thing was changed on the FG I'd have it be projectile speed. As it stands now, reticule turns red and they're dead. There has to be a draw back for such a relatively small weapon putting out that much power and maintaining said power over such a distance and that would be how fast you can send the projectile at the target. Not even plasma cannon slow but someplace between the PC speed and the current speed. Would take more skill to hit a DS but a tank would still be reasonably easy to hit unless they hit the fuel injectors. Hitting moving infantry from a tower would be harder as well.

Reasons FG is OP:

Have you ever wanted a weapon that has a powerful range and powerful against all types of entities even at close range or any range well the assault forge gun is your pick counter any infantry and vehicle.

That would just make the FG suck.

Remember it is a handheld Railgun. Just like the sniper rifle except larger. It doesn't fire an actual projectile.

Would you want this done to your rail turrets? What about the Railgun Installations? Sniper Rifles? What about the Caldari Rail Rifle? Should these weapons also have a slower traveling "projectile", of course not.

That would just make the FG suck.

Remember it is a handheld Railgun. Just like the sniper rifle except larger. It doesn't fire an actual projectile.

Would you want this done to your rail turrets? What about the Railgun Installations? Sniper Rifles? What about the Caldari Rail Rifle? Should these weapons also have a slower traveling "projectile", of course not.