Racial parity is kinda a weird obsession. It's nowhere near as important as the MMO elements of the game which are sorely lacking.

Racial parity is kinda a weird obsession. It's nowhere near as important as the MMO elements of the game which are sorely lacking.

Racial Parity is an MMO element.

Nope, it's window dressing.

All races should have some form of common weapon type. I.e. Close range weapon (close range depending on race) and long range (which is also dependent on race)

All races should have some form of Light AV but specific weapons and functions no. For example, all races should not have a Mass driver. Now they can have something that fills the same purpose of a mass driver but not an exact copy and paste.

Just for the most basic of things all races should have their own version of, that's all.

Please explain.
As I explained in 3 above post, it's not window dressing when it can determine how people can use the same 'group' of weapons.

It's just another way to imaginarily obfuscate the data that determines an equipment's effectiveness. It doesn't matter what race a weapon is if it does X damage. Why was everyone Caldari Logi for so long? Because they liked the color scheme? I remember not so long ago all these people going off on the Nova Knife event about the mystique of knifers. I have been playing this, this, thing since open beta (we're now in WIDE open beta, it seems), and I have been offed by super-duper experts with knives less than 8 times. I've been splattered by green recruits with Logi suits and rail rifles more times than HAL 9000 could count. Bottom line: you either play Logi with a Rail Rifle, or you're just imagining some reason to do so, because the LogiRR is the best way to get kills in this, this, thing. And dead opponents are the least likely to bother you.

TL;DR: If going all Amarr lets me kill Caldari Logis with RRs at an appreciable rate, I'm in.

4 weapons 4 styles, 1 Base weapon.

So, of those four, which one do you use most?

I use the Mass Driver, whats your point?
If you are trying to say everyone uses the RR, you should probably talk to the Amarrians who kicked up a storm when they were gonna loose their heat reduction bonus, or the Minmatar rejoicing that they are getting 85 rounds a clip to the ACR.

There are people who will 'flock' to the FOTM the month but you will find the majority of the player believes in the "this is my rifle" mantra. The only people who moved to the RR were GAR users who got severly gimped, but that's balance not parity.

Mass driver wasn't on the list. So, of those four listed, which one do you use the most?

Combat Rifle, I like the burst fire.

I dont want a minmatar scrambler rifle or a Gallente rail rifle XD your view of racial parity sucks

So, if they took the other three out, you wouldn't mind that much. There is no need for parity in the face of maximum effectiveness. CCP blathers on (along with a great chunk of the forum-base) that people have to live with their decisions. Yet you choose a race at the beginning of the game and it has jack zip zero to do with anything. Your choice of skills and weapons does, but race doesn't. If your very race has nothing to do with combat effectiveness, then the race of a weapon has nothing to do with it.
The race element is just and only a way for CCP to get some people to spend the same SP four times and to keep the reason for winning as murky and indecipherable as possible. They simply want the player-base doubting their choices constantly, so that they spend money here trying to win at pewpew. Right now, somewhere, there's a spreadsheet measuring how much money is spent getting the FOTM. When that number plateaus, a new FOTM will be introduced, especially if they feel like people have leveraged a ton of SP into it. You'll get your racial parity just and only when Farmville economics says you will, and not one second earlier.