Nice ideas. I approve

I wouldn't class things like the mass driver as a rifle.

Laser Rifle has a near-sniper range, and in a world where each race has a high-range weapon, I expect lasers to be effectively an Amarr sniper rifle. So I'd imagine we'll eventually get long-range precision weapons for the Gallente and Minmatar as well.

Every race has an assault rifle, every race should get an AV weapon, if they don't have one, etc.

whats to stop the rlr from being op in cqc, dont get me wrong id love to have it but i dont want see it getting nerf hammered for over use in cqc.

im thinking large exlposion radius,compensates for distance time in long range
realativly low dps,to prevent cqc spam
but should take 3 shots tops to kill a fully tanked sentinel

You must have the rail rifle, distance means nothing with it, it's just a automatic tactical, the flamethrower seems interesting but it will come OP'd then everybody and there momma will get it, then they will nerf it and everyone will complain, I do agree with every race have'n their weapons and mass drivers as rifles reminds me off the gaylock lol

I do, I just don't run up and shot in the wide open with no cover, I've had stacked complex armor and eat through me in like 2 seconds, basic amarr proto medium

I wouldn't class things like the mass driver as a rifle.

Laser Rifle has a near-sniper range, and in a world where each race has a high-range weapon, I expect lasers to be effectively an Amarr sniper rifle. So I'd imagine we'll eventually get long-range precision weapons for the Gallente and Minmatar as well.

Every race has an assault rifle, every race should get an AV weapon, if they don't have one, etc.

I believe the popular concept is that the Mass Driver, Laser Rifle, Shotgun, and Sniper Rifle are the races' "specialist" weapons, as they cover the main weapon philosophies of the races.

Gallente - Extreme Short Range, High Damage
Minmatar - Explosive, low tech (comparatively), gunpowder weapons
Amarr - "Reach out and touch someone" range, laser tech
Caldari - Extreme Long Range

However, things like the Minmatar Precision rifle, which is on the drawing board, seemingly infringe on this theory, as the Precision Rifle looks and sounds like it'll be some sort of sniper rifle, though likely shorter range. We'll have to see if that means things such as racial shotguns and grenade launchers come about because of this, or if the Precision rifle turns out to be something wholly different. Or maybe the Minmatar are just special.

However, on the note of "long-range precision weapons for the Gallente," I have to say that the long-range version of the Gallente's favored Blaster is the rail gun, so I don't think we'll see a unique gun for them, as it'd just be a reskinned rail gun.

In regards to AV, the Caldari have a near monopoly on it, owning 3 out of the 5 available choices: AV Grenades, Swarm Launchers, and Forge Guns. The Gallente have the Plasma Cannon, and the Minmatar have the mines/remote explosives.

@ OP, my response to your post is in my previous ramblings, but I'll TL;DR it here as well:
I don't think these are needed at the moment because of the "specialist weapons" theory that I currently subscribe to, and I definitely don't think the Caldari need any more weapons. They certainly need more suits, but not more weapons, not now.

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Gallente - Extreme Short Range, High Damage
Minmatar - Explosive, low tech (comparatively), gunpowder weapons
Amarr - "Reach out and touch someone" range, laser tech
Caldari - Extreme Long Range
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I believe the popular concept is that the Mass Driver, Laser Rifle, Shotgun, and Sniper Rifle are the races' "specialist" weapons, as they cover the main weapon philosophies of the races.
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However, things like the Minmatar Precision rifle, which is on the drawing board, seemingly infringe on this theory, as the Precision Rifle looks and sounds like it'll be some sort of sniper rifle, though likely shorter range. We'll have to see if that means things such as racial shotguns and grenade launchers come about because of this, or if the Precision rifle turns out to be something wholly different. Or maybe the Minmatar are just special.

However, on the note of "long-range precision weapons for the Gallente," I have to say that the long-range version of the Gallente's favored Blaster is the rail gun, so I don't think we'll see a unique gun for them, as it'd just be a reskinned rail gun.

In regards to AV, the Caldari have a near monopoly on it, owning 3 out of the 5 available choices: AV Grenades, Swarm Launchers, and Forge Guns. The Gallente have the Plasma Cannon, and the Minmatar have the mines/remote explosives.

@ OP, my response to your post is in my previous ramblings, but I'll TL;DR it here as well:
I don't think these are needed at the moment because of the "specialist weapons" theory that I currently subscribe to, and I definitely don't think the Caldari need any more weapons. They certainly need more suits, but not more weapons, not now.

Ok whatever, I've already wrote it, it's no a concern just thought on what u wrote, that response was kinda woman like

I am all for the variety of weapons but the flamethrower idea that's been bouncing around for a while is not a good weapon in my opinion for the sole reason that they have been deemed of questionable effectiveness in modern combat and I have to agree with that.

While the concept of burning people from a distance sounds fun I can't see it taking off.

TL;DR: Gallente should get a Light flamethrower, Caldari should get a Light missile launcher.

Intro:
I'm not sure if other people have noticed, but I really like what CCP has been doing with the feel of the Rifles and their "secondary" sisters. If you don't know what I mean, I'll break down how I view the rifles.

The Minmatar possess the Combat Rifle as the primary infantry assault weapon, yet there is also the "secondary" Mass Driver (which for all intents and purposes, I'm considering a rifle; also, a weapon that now has been shifted into the support/suppression role). In addition, the Mass Driver is an explosive rifle in contrast to projectile.

The Amarr possess the Scrambler Rifle as their primary infantry assault weapon, but they also have the Laser Rifle, which shares a similar role (although functionally different) to the Mass Driver, and thus acts a "secondary" rifle. Just like the Mass Driver, the LR contrasts its sibling by being a continuous laser rather than a scrambling laser.

I view this as a pattern amongst the races, and I'm hoping the Gallente and Caldari will receive their "secondary" rifles (I don't consider the Plasma Cannon the Gallente's; it's more in line with the Swarm Launcher as a Light AV, although it can be effective against infantry).

This being said, I'd like to bring to light my ideas for their secondary weapons.

Gallente - Plasma Ignitor / Plasmathrower
I know this has been brought up before, so I won't elaborate too much.

The weapon would be a flamethrower, but the plasma would be sticky and would continue to burn the enemy for a period of time after being exposed to the plasma. The period of burn after exposure would be some portion of how long the enemy remained in the AoE. So staying in the plasma for a second would result in little to no after-burn, but staying in the plasma for five seconds would result in direct damage from the plasma and also 1-2 seconds of residual burn damage.

Although I'm not necessarily in favor of this, having the burn damage be piercing and applied directly to the armor might be an interesting concept.

EDIT: I forgot to add this initially, but this weapon's max (hard-capped?) range would be about that of the AR's optimal range or somewhere between the CR and AR. The weapon would have a tighter spread (similar to the LR's stream) instead of having a wider spread and shorter range (like traditional flamethrowers).

Caldari - Accelerator Rifle / Missile Rifle
I've not heard as much hype about this one, but honestly this would be a weapon I'd be most excited to see.

Here is a video for reference of what I'm aiming at (note: It's the pink "handgun"; Bulldog Rocket Launching Rifle (RLR)).

Instead of being in handgun form, the weapon would be in the form a pseudo-rifle. The weapon would be automatic and have about 4-8 missiles per clip. The weapon would be a long range weapon, have a slower RoF, and have long reload time.

If you watched the entire video, you'll notice that the weapon performs well on stationary targets (it's EXTREMELY accurate), doing MASSIVE damage (generally one-shots or two-shots for heavy armor); however, with the least bit of movement, the rounds will miss and do an insignificant amount of splash damage in a small blast radius. Later in the video, the Magnaguard's Bulldog RLR is seen precisely hitting a small turret at longer-ish range, but enemies close by easily avoid the rifle. (I will also note that when using this weapon in SWB II, generally 1-2 shots at an enemy right next to the user will kill the user.)

I understand the SWARMs could be modified to do something similar, but I'd much rather have this as a separate weapon.

Conclusion:
I'd really like to see at least the Caldari Missile Rifle come to fruition, but I'd also like to hear what people have to say about the "secondary" rifle thing and/or present some additional ideas. I'll keep this updated as I get good feedback.

Secondary of Caldari is the Sniper Rifle.
"Sniper rifle" is not a class of diffrent wepaons.
It's the Caldari specialiy. (Range)
I don't think we are gonna have others sniper rifle by faction because sniper rifles ARE the Caldari secondary.

I don't buy that for the reason stated somewhere in here.

I don't think the Sniper Rifle is the Caldari secondary because the other races could replicate the function (effectively) of the sniper using their tech. The Caldari couldn't make a Laser Rifle out of Rail tech without it being a huge waste of pretty much every conceivable resource. Thus, the Sniper Rifle's function doesn't make the Sniper Rifle overly unique to the Caldari and not something I'd consider a secondary weapon.

Could be argued that the laser rifle is an Amarr sniper rifle, and not a "secondary rifle". The distinctions between many weapons are very unclear and maybe non-existent (I don't feel the laser rifle and mass driver are in the same general class), so I'm not really sure that this category really exists.

Sniper rifle probably isn't one since there will be a Minmatar precision rifle that looks like a sniper rifle; implies that the sniper rifle is a class of weapon (unknown if laser rifle fits in there or not).
Mass driver might be part of an area-denial class, Gallente and Caldari can easily make something that falls in that class with missiles and balls of plasma, and the the Amarr could have a weapon releasing pulses of light in a cone (like the active scanner) that could fit as well.

As for the specific weapon ideas, I like them.

Samuel, the laser rifle was nerfed to crud, and that's why you might not be seeing it. It used to melt snipers from halfway across the map with ease.