I'm not sure how much info you're going to get from the burst HMG. It does this weird thing where it gets more accurate at the end of its firing cycle. Kind of confusing.

I could see DPS really start to matter in a different way if and when we do get PvE. If you have to have something like 1000 DPS to burn something down for a few seconds before its shields immediately come back, that would be crazy hard.

How crazy would it be if you had to alpha through 10000 HP of shield with a 2 second regen of 2500 HP/s just to take out 2000 HP armor.

Accuracy doesn't actually affect efficacy though, that's the part I'm grateful for.

Using the SMG as an example - you CAN do damage to someone at 100 meters but that's entirely if you hit them!

ADS is pretty much 100% accurate.

You ever tried shooting pixels at 100 meters? O_o;

Was hard enough just putting the retical on a non-moving target, lol.

Looking at this graph it makes me wish they had weapon type profiles. Where Blasters, Lasers and Ballistic weapons all had different behaviors.

Blasters: high damage potential short but they fall a cliff after their optimal (due to plasma dissipation).

Lasers: build damage potential up to their optimal then flatten to their max range (similar to the laser rifle in the chart) and then fall gradually.

Ballistics: Flat to their optimal then gradual falloff as the bullet loses kinetic energy.

This gives each weapon type a flavor. Blasters do excel in short range but can't hit at far ranges. Lasers don't do so well in short range, excel at moderate ranges and are ok at long ranges. Ballistics do well in short range, well in moderate range and ok at long ranges.

Im not sure this is correct. I feel my hmg has got better range than the Ar, maybe because most Ar users are good dancers, but not so good at shooting.

Quick update guys - after I finish some studies I'm going to be running tests on the SMG and Scrambler Pistol variants as they are the only ones I don't think I have yet. Stay frosty..! Or... Something.

Oi, did you miss my question or are you ignoring me? :D

Anyway, do you mind if I link this thread from my range thread? It's got some great info in it.

I like the graph ;).

EDIT: Looks to me like ARs could do with a much shorter falloff, especially now that they hit for >20% damage way past that anyway.

This would make sense, but if the burst is supposed to represent the minmatar combat rifle, you'd think it would be the one getting a bit more range and the AR would be a little shorter than it is. If the minmatar combat rifle is closer range optimal with an earlier drop off it would either have to be higher DPS than AR, making it a different concept than Eve, or it would have to have a very long falloff with a moderate DPS so that it would actually do more damage than plasma well into plasma's falloff.

The Minnie CR should have range to it but less ROF. It needs to fit with the playstyle of the suits which are speedy but cant tank as well as others. It needs to support hit-n-run tactics which is all about range right now with hit detection the way it is. I agree that it should have a much more gradual falloff than the AR.

Nice chart.

waiting for 1.7 new graphs :)

this has real lr ranges http://i.imgur.com/krRr5EZ.png

never mind on my prior post ..now can u overlap and add the rr so we can watch how and why lr is extinct