This is a good point. The only reason why I said the CR should have the highest dps (or highest potential) is because it is a burst fire weapon with tons of recoil.

the PR has virtually no Recoil and is fully automatic. the PR actually has less damage fall off than the CR as well, so making it more powerful than the combat will effectively nerf the CR. lol

When you think about it just about everything minmatar in this game has been nerfed either directly or indirectly. the dropsuits, the weapons. Once the caldari pistol and SMG come out the minmatar SMG will be indreictly nerfed... the flaylock was already nerfed. If the PR becomes better than the CR then the WHOLE minmatar race will be effectively nerfed, and I will be asking for a complete respec into caldari who seem to get consistent buffs....lol

They're in the same universe but unfortunately different genres.

Besides, in the case of rail tech your desired effects are already represented in the Sniper rifle and Forge gun. The Devs did an excellent job in creating a frontline battle rifle that fits the tech yet is effective in an FPS. You can't possible think that they didn't consider the things you are suggesting when they spent months on the new weapons.

This is what they deemed best and it has plenty of drawbacks like maintaining fire at small targets in long range or slow RoF in a low TTK environment. To slow anything down further would also ruin the rifle's long range performance and allow people to get away too easily.

The new weapons are both perfect imo and a lot of other weapons are still UP. What you are going to accomplish with nerf / corrections threads are another rifle to join the broken heap of stuff people "fixed" that no one wants to use like the Flaylock, the Laser (making a comeback i know), the TAC, the Gallente Breach, and the AR according to some players.

I don't understand why you would want it to charge each shot after it is already activated. It is sort of doing that already with the pause between rounds and the weapon basically powers down when you release the trigger prompting another charge up.

IT needs to be a high alpha, low dps weapon. Low ROF, high damage per shot, long range.

So give it a 10 point per shot increase. and make it charge between each shot. Adjust charge time accordingly to make the dps lower than all the other rifles.

Dust 514, which is set in New Eden, the same universe as Eve, therefore it should follow New Eden rules, just as Eve does.

What you are describing would be a tactical variant of the RR. The base RR just needs a RoF nerf so it won't have both a good DPS, basically the same as the assault rifle, and high alpha damage.

This change would make only great at medium to long range like it's supposed to be, but not as good for CQC as it is now.