only able to do sheild damage, or just armor, and a vary reduced range as its an electrical charge, (dissipates over a range) so give it drop off damage and make it so it cant OHK an enemy, or deal nearly 4k DMG for the breach, make it so it takes a bit longer to charge, as it charges faster than a railgun and is much more powerful, you may be nerfing it for 1.7 or 1.6, but make it non OHK and not able to be used on top of a building halfway across the map.
Range: 150M from 355M
DMG: 50% off current DMG,except for the officer, 25% less DMG.
Make it not a OHK weapon:cant kill a unit in one shot.
Make charge time longer, at leaste by 35%

only able to do sheild damage, or just armor, and a vary reduced range as its an electrical charge, (dissipates over a range) so give it drop off damage and make it so it cant OHK an enemy, or deal nearly 4k DMG for the breach, make it so it takes a bit longer to charge, as it charges faster than a railgun and is much more powerful, you may be nerfing it for 1.7 or 1.6, but make it non OHK and not able to be used on top of a building halfway across the map.
Range: 150M from 355M
DMG: 50% off current DMG,except for the officer, 25% less DMG.
Make it not a OHK weapon:cant kill a unit in one shot.
Make charge time longer, at leaste by 35%

only able to do sheild damage, or just armor, and a vary reduced range as its an electrical charge, (dissipates over a range) so give it drop off damage and make it so it cant OHK an enemy, or deal nearly 4k DMG for the breach, make it so it takes a bit longer to charge, as it charges faster than a railgun and is much more powerful, you may be nerfing it for 1.7 or 1.6, but make it non OHK and not able to be used on top of a building halfway across the map.
Range: 150M from 355M
DMG: 50% off current DMG,except for the officer, 25% less DMG.
Make it not a OHK weapon:cant kill a unit in one shot.
Make charge time longer, at leaste by 35%

only able to do sheild damage, or just armor, and a vary reduced range as its an electrical charge, (dissipates over a range) so give it drop off damage and make it so it cant OHK an enemy, or deal nearly 4k DMG for the breach, make it so it takes a bit longer to charge, as it charges faster than a railgun and is much more powerful, you may be nerfing it for 1.7 or 1.6, but make it non OHK and not able to be used on top of a building halfway across the map.
Range: 150M from 355M
DMG: 50% off current DMG,except for the officer, 25% less DMG.
Make it not a OHK weapon:cant kill a unit in one shot.
Make charge time longer, at leaste by 35%

Jesus no. Are you high?

only able to do sheild damage, or just armor, and a vary reduced range as its an electrical charge, (dissipates over a range) so give it drop off damage and make it so it cant OHK an enemy, or deal nearly 4k DMG for the breach, make it so it takes a bit longer to charge, as it charges faster than a railgun and is much more powerful, you may be nerfing it for 1.7 or 1.6, but make it non OHK and not able to be used on top of a building halfway across the map.
Range: 150M from 355M
DMG: 50% off current DMG,except for the officer, 25% less DMG.
Make it not a OHK weapon:cant kill a unit in one shot.
Make charge time longer, at leaste by 35%

You don't need to aim at a particular rivet on a tank to kill it, so a little dispersion isn't going to matter in the AV department.

If you want to hit the weak spot, yes, you do.

The FG needs to keep its damage to kill vehicles, it simply needs dispersion coupled with a splash radius reduction so that it can miss infantry at long range.

You don't need to aim at a particular rivet on a tank to kill it, so a little dispersion isn't going to matter in the AV department.

A howitzer doesn't need to be able to pick the fly off a pigs back at half a mile.

The Forge gun is essentially a rail gun - A metal slug is accelerated by electromagnets to about the speed of sound. In theory it will leave a very neat but devastating hole in the side of any object without the density to absorb the impact.

We're talking about a round travelling at 340 meters a second. (v)
If your talking about a round of say 100g (m) then the amount of energy is staggering.

Put simply the equation is: E=1/2mv^2

E=1/2 x 0.1kg x (340m/s)^2

E=4620800J or 4.6 Megajoules of energy.

To try to put it in simple terms 1 MJ is about the equivalent of being hit by a 1 ton vehicle at 100 mph. But this is 4 times that and over a vastly smaller area. Think how little energy it is to push a pin into a board because your spreading force over a smaller area. In terms of electricity it is over 4,000,000 watts a second

So really? Just the shields?

The Forge Gun fires a metal slug filled with plasma. It damages everything about equally.

Reducing its splash damage or adding a bit of innacurucy would effectively make it worse at killing dropsuits.

Range: 150M from 355M

Caldari use plasma the same amount that the Gallente do. They have the same exact ammo types. Even the minmatar use shells filled with plasma in some cases.

In the particular case of the forge gun, its using anti-matter and not plasma however.

I'd like the accuracy to remain the same. I'm switching over to this weapon to kill dropships and, atleast for me, it is already hard enough to predict movement, speed and delay for a distant target flying in the sky. Any accuracy changes over a long distance will result in huge misses.

Edit: And i'd also like the range to remain the same. Do whatever you want with splash, I don't care about that.

Easiest fix for FG is to have their damage linked with the scan profile of the object being shot similar to how missiles and turrets work in eve. that way large slow moving objects receive the most damage and fast smaller targets like dropsuits receive less

only able to do sheild damage, or just armor, and a vary reduced range as its an electrical charge, (dissipates over a range) so give it drop off damage and make it so it cant OHK an enemy, or deal nearly 4k DMG for the breach, make it so it takes a bit longer to charge, as it charges faster than a railgun and is much more powerful, you may be nerfing it for 1.7 or 1.6, but make it non OHK and not able to be used on top of a building halfway across the map.
Range: 150M from 355M
DMG: 50% off current DMG,except for the officer, 25% less DMG.
Make it not a OHK weapon:cant kill a unit in one shot.
Make charge time longer, at leaste by 35%