oh boy...
The charge up time of the Rail Rifle in fact is so very significant that the Rail Rifle will NEVER be able to catch up on damage output compared to the AR!

Here is a spreadsheet I made a while ago: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkgH4oyiFeUAdFpjQW0wRExKazF6empxY0R2Rm9iV3c&usp=sharing#gid=0

Including not only DPS but also stats like 'damage after 1 second' so you can see that the Rail Rifles charge up time is far from "minimal".

The AR will probably still deal the most DPS, not by far, but still. And it will also be the easiest weapon to use because it's full-auto and has no other limiting factors other but its low range.

oh boy...
The charge up time of the Rail Rifle in fact is so very significant that the Rail Rifle will NEVER be able to catch up on damage output compared to the AR!

Here is a spreadsheet I made a while ago: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkgH4oyiFeUAdFpjQW0wRExKazF6empxY0R2Rm9iV3c&usp=sharing#gid=0

Including not only DPS but also stats like 'damage after 1 second' so you can see that the Rail Rifles charge up time is far from "minimal".

The AR will probably still deal the most DPS, not by far, but still. And it will also be the easiest weapon to use because it's full-auto and has no other limiting factors other but its low range.

What!?

So why don't we have the actual stats? Is this a joke?

Can you provide us the real stats, Knife?

This is a fantastic spreadsheat bro. I appreciate this because CCPs data sheet gave me a headache.

My concern is the hoebaggers that use modded controllers. Imagine a minmatar rifle with higher damage than the full-auto variant.. still shooting at full-auto speeds because they would allow it to be possible. Once they calculate the required trigger intervals to maintain that high dps. This is also reflected across the board with similar weapons. The tac AR got double nerfed.. but still the imperial scrabler rifle is immaculate for an Amarr assault that cheats like this. It should not be possible. I, for one, will NOT exploit these flaws and people who do should be banned from the game. The tac AR glory days were ended abruptly and swiftly because of the RPM exploit, why not prep that accross the board to ensure balance?

I said it before and I'll say it again "DPS is the ugliest word in Dust"

And before you say anything I know it's technically 3 words.

There are more factors at work here. If it were raw numbers then I would never get a kill using STD gear and I would never be killed by someone if I'm using a higher tier weapon.

I think the weapons that will become the most used will be the Scrambler and CR, most likely the assault variants.

Note that I did not say best, just what will most likely be used more often.

oh boy...
The charge up time of the Rail Rifle in fact is so very significant that the Rail Rifle will NEVER be able to catch up on damage output compared to the AR!

Here is a spreadsheet I made a while ago: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkgH4oyiFeUAdFpjQW0wRExKazF6empxY0R2Rm9iV3c&usp=sharing#gid=0

Including not only DPS but also stats like 'damage after 1 second' so you can see that the Rail Rifles charge up time is far from "minimal".

The AR will probably still deal the most DPS, not by far, but still. And it will also be the easiest weapon to use because it's full-auto and has no other limiting factors other but its low range.

You are right technically the gallente AR deals the most DPS but thats on paper. Compared to Assault Scrambler Rifle it gets a difference of 2! DPS compared to the Assault Combamt Rifle of 6. BUT both weapons have bigger clips and more Range its highly quistionable that the small DPS advantage will balance that out.

You have a point about the ASCR. However, while the ACR has a larger clip, each bullet does much less damage, so the ACR has much less damage available in each clip (see my numbers in the first post on this page). That's a massive drawback in my book. For instance, against a heavy with a couple of plates you'd have to land every shot to take him down in one clip, whereas an AR can afford to miss a third of its shots. (This is all based on the numbers CCP have published thus far.)