Sounds interesting, Billi Gene should start up a thread.

Not a blaster, in the slightest, This is not the most difficult concept to grasp, the question is entirely based on the nature of the ammunition

Blasters and Rails are hybrid weapons, now why are they both hybrid.

1) Blasters are hybrid because they have physical hallow shells which contain plasma, thus they primarily do thermal damage

2) Rails (which Eve also conflates with coil guns) are weapons that shoot solid slugs at really high speeds, hence rail weapons primarily do kinetic damage

The Forge gun shoots solid shells based on the descritpiont,

Also the devs shouldn't have to do double work because you guys can't do a little bit of researching, they already addressed the issue of classifying weapons based on weapon systems, just read the dev blogs

http://dust514.com/news/blog/2013/07/weapon-ranges-in-uprising-1.2-and-beyond/

Edit:

I wanted to include this

"The power supply must be able to deliver large currents, sustained and controlled over a useful amount of time. The most important gauge of power supply effectiveness is the energy it can deliver. As of December 2010, the greatest known energy used to propel a projectile from a railgun was 33 megajoules.[10] The most common forms of power supplies used in railguns are capacitors and compulsators which are slowly charged from other continuous energy sources.
The rails need to withstand enormous repulsive forces during shooting, and these forces will tend to push them apart and away from the projectile. As rail/projectile clearances increase, arcing develops, which causes rapid vaporization and extensive damage to the rail surfaces and the insulator surfaces. This limited some early research railguns to one shot per service interval.
The inductance and resistance of the rails and power supply limit the efficiency of a railgun design. Currently different rail shapes and railgun configurations are being tested, most notably by the United States Navy, the Institute for Advanced Technology, and BAE Systems."

its rail.

Then why does a proto Assault FG do more damage than a proto railgun that worth 850k more isk and weighs 10 tons more? It also fires faster because railgun has fire delay... now dont tell me some **** about how the railgun has unlimited ammo... i know that...

A whole post on a question created because someone is too lazy to read.

Read lore. It applies to these questions you all seem to feel a need to ask.

Better yet, don't argue with the people who CAN read. Because they try to give you the answer, but since it doesn't fit in that tiny little box you call a thought, it means the big, poopyhead, meanie literate person was lying to you!

Get over it. Those hulks were an eyesore and needed to go.