First, look at this great Dust 514 fan art from the Dust 514 art contest: http://hughebdy.deviantart.com/art/Dust-514-364728479 , see all these awesome gunfire colors? Now go play Dust, all you will see is yellow flying around, and the occasional blue-green of a laser rifles. Its both an aesthetic issue, and a minor game design issue; gunfire and muzzle flash color should let you know what sorts of weapons you're dealing with.

Plasma
AR: yellow
Plasma cannon: yellow
Shotgun: yellow

Projectiles
SMG: orange
HMG: yellow

Lasers
Scrambler pistol: yellow
Scrambler rifle: yellow
Laser rifle: boring white with a blue-green hue around the edge of the beam.

Railguns
Forge gun: blue
Sniper rifle: blue

Yellow: 6 (overwhelming victory)
Blue: 2
blue-green: 1
Orange: 1

The Caldari magsec SMG and rail rifle will likely add more blue on the battlefield (judging from other Caldari railgun weapons).

The SMG, HMG (and probably the upcoming Minmatar combat rifle's rifle) will need to have more reddish muzzle flash to make their fire more visually unique compared to plasma weapons in my opinion.These are not the main problem.

The main problem is the scrambler weapons and the plasma weapons having the same color. I propose making laser weapons (scrambler pistol, scrambler rifle, and laser rifle) all fire blue-green like the laser rifle. Charge-shots from regular scrambler rifles could be red or even purple, it would look great.

These are not that important, but they are certainly easy to do.

They should make the race of your dropsuit determine the color of plasma your weapons shoot.
Caldari should have Blue plasma with a white outline. Cadari Ar's should be black and dark blue in color.
Amarr should keep the color they got. Am Amarr style AR would be nice too.
Gallente should have green plasma with a white outline. I think Gallente AR's are already green in color.
Minmatar should have dark red plasma.Minmatar AR's should be the rusty brown everybody loves.
These changes would be awesome if it was for more weapons than AR's.

First, look at this great Dust 514 fan art from the Dust 514 art contest: http://hughebdy.deviantart.com/art/Dust-514-364728479 , see all these awesome gunfire colors? Now go play Dust, all you will see is yellow flying around, and the occasional blue-green of a laser rifles. Its both an aesthetic issue, and a minor game design issue; gunfire and muzzle flash color should let you know what sorts of weapons you're dealing with.

Plasma
AR: yellow
Plasma cannon: yellow
Shotgun: yellow

Projectiles
SMG: orange
HMG: yellow

Lasers
Scrambler pistol: yellow
Scrambler rifle: yellow
Laser rifle: boring white with a blue-green hue around the edge of the beam.

Railguns
Forge gun: blue
Sniper rifle: blue

Yellow: 6 (overwhelming victory)
Blue: 2
blue-green: 1
Orange: 1

The Caldari magsec SMG and rail rifle will likely add more blue on the battlefield (judging from other Caldari railgun weapons).

The SMG, HMG (and probably the upcoming Minmatar combat rifle's rifle) will need to have more reddish muzzle flash to make their fire more visually unique compared to plasma weapons in my opinion.These are not the main problem.

The main problem is the scrambler weapons and the plasma weapons having the same color. I propose making laser weapons (scrambler pistol, scrambler rifle, and laser rifle) all fire blue-green like the laser rifle. Charge-shots from regular scrambler rifles could be red or even purple, it would look great.

These are not that important, but they are certainly easy to do.

Amarr guns are correct scrambler pistols and rifles are using standard crytals while the laser rifle is using gamma crystals

What we need is ammo types

The other option is to change the plasma fire color and muzzle flash.

This seems to have made the weekly feedback thread.

Amarr should shoot bright white, initially, though gets more yellow the more it heats up. Plasma should be red with a purple finish around the edge. Minmatar weaponry should be Orange with a very light red finish. Caldari is fine.

Still bothers me. Would like laser to have the same color as the shot fired n this Dust 514 concept art: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a-cG-sM-QN0/TyLeMeKS78I/AAAAAAAAB-I/ZKmstSYcnpo/s640/5787973737_b4b1144fd5_b.jpg

Perhaps purplish blue
Still rather change scramblers to a more interesting color to contrast.

I think green plasma with orange flames coming from it would be quite Gallentean. Or orange plasma with green flames, either one would be easily distinguishable.

Gallente weapons should fire green to grey projectiles, in general.
Caldari weapons should fire blue to silver projectiles, in general.
Amarr weapons should fire yellow to white projectiles, in general.
Minmatar weapons should fire orange to red projectiles, in general.

If they let us use multiple ammo types further down the line, I suspect those might have different colors as well. As for missiles, they'll probably be metallic for the body, maybe with some factional paint, and the rocket exhaust would also be factional colored.

Furthermore, loooooook, I want that on my scrambler.

Since making an EVE account, one of the things I've really liked about the Amarr was the variety in laser colors with the various crystals. I even mounted every one of them to a destroyer for giggles to shoot a rainbow wave.

It makes for a great light show. Considering how cool it is there, I was a bit disappointing with the feedback note suggesting that more color would be "bad".

It's striking in particular for Amarr because their ships are very uniform in color, so it provides a certain contrasting color-scheme:

I liked this.

This is amusing, though not practical for a single weapon in Dust.

Woo.

The variety adds to the game I think.