This is why I am against racial bonuses on suits - I don't care for lore and don't play Eve, although I'm not against the principle, more scared that it will be game breaking.

Balance between weapons has eluded CCP's grasp so far, now we are getting unbalanced weapons coupled to bonuses on potentially unbalanced suits - the opportunity for a particular combination of weapon and suit to be OP is massive based on past experience.

Add a respec to the mix and diversity is diminished and fotm increases.

I know many are into factional consistency but I would prefer to choose a suit and weapon from whatever race I want and not have it perform worse on my suit than for some red facing me with the right suit.

About that large clip:

Actually the clip size is 100% meaningless for the ScR when you overheat after only a few shots. Effectively the ScR has a ~ 16 round clip and the amarr assault give you a 5% bonus to clip size. Only when you expend this clip too fast you take 50 HP damage and you are useless for 5 seconds.

I am going to attempt to figure out the ScR heat/cooldown interactions so look for that in the future.

Sure I'll give it a shot:

1) ScR is only OP with a turbo controller or way above average clicking speed (average being around 5 clicks per second). This would lead to less DPS than any other rifle, making it the only sub-400 rifle.

2) The overheating function is unique to the ScR, and can/does kill the user. This is a MAJOR drawback that prevents spamming it. This function nicely balances out the charge shot.

3) The fitting requirements are ridiculously high.

4) Actually the ScR is just plain bad on non-amarr assault suits. After 1 engagement, if you didn't overheat and die, you will overheat and die. Seriously, this weapon is borderline horrible on non-assault suits.

Question for the OP, did you mean to say the ScR is OP with turbo controllers on an amarr assault? If so, I agree, and the ScR needs only a RoF reduction to 400 RPM (max of 6.666 shots per second or around the same base DPS as the other rifles at max).

Oh, just to throw this out here:

The CR:

Does 50% more DPS than the other rifles
Does 102.5% normalized damage
Has insanely low fitting costs
Never Overheats
can kill suits in 4-6 shots rather than the 5-8 of your ScR experience, try it.

I can always tell when I die in my sentinel suit to a combat rifle because it happens way faster than to any other weapon.

Did you understand my arguement above? Perhaps I didn;t make it clear, let me rephrase.

*ScR has a heat budget that is equivalent to a clip on another rifle.

*ScR's heat bank is effectively it's clip

*ScR's clip size means nothing when you can at most shoot 16 (25 on assault) shots, meaning it has an effective clip of 16 (25 on assault).

*You "reload" the ScR by allowing it to cooldown. Effectively the ScR has a 4.5 sec reload time.

*You are effectively reloading every time you have to let the gun cool down

Take your pick.

Also, on every other weapon you can still sprint during a reload, you just cancel the reload. On the ScR, when you overheat you die.

Finally, why are you using the ScR. If you used the CR the majority of your kills would die in under 8 trigger pulls, with 10 trigger pulls left to spare. You would also be doing that damage at a faster rate with a more favorable damage profile.

What is easy for you is not easy for everyone. Search the web, seems like the majority of people click slower than 5 times per second. How high should the advantage for faster clicking be? Why shouldn't i just buy a modded controller so I can be "better" than everyone else because a few physical freaks can also achieve this?

World record for clicking is like 14+ per second, so I guess because one dude can click that fast, we should balance around that. Then everyone will be forced to buy a modded controller to be competitive with that one guy.

How about no?

ScR is a SKILL SHOT weapon, not the spam-fest weapon you use it as (watch your own video, you spray and prey using muscle twitch, not control). Actually the RoF would be more than 10% higher than the max of what I can achieve, a max that I pretty much never use as spamming R1 with the ScR = death (remember that pesky overheat mechanic). Pulling the trigger at 7.5-8 times per second would put you in the upper echelons of the entire population. You want to balance the weapon around how fast YOU can click, I want to balance the weapon around current in-game trends and DPS.

At 400 RPM (same as the TAC AR and the CR when accounting for the 3 round burst) the ScR does 479.9 DPS, which is still too high when compared to the other rifles(aside from the 650 DPS Combat Rifle), but it is within reason. This keeps the weapon functionally the same for the people who use skill to use it, and the scrubs with frealishly fast fingers or modded controllers will loose out on the crutch.

Either way I do agree the RoF is too high, and THAT IS THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH THE WEAPON.

IF you actually gave one tiny bit of a sh-t about balance, you would probably talk about how the RR does the same DPS as the AR at twice the range, or the fact that the CR does nearly 50% more DPS than all the other rifles (while using that "everyone gets a trophy" speed you claimed before.)

Why are you singling out the ScR? You have no evidence or factually based extrapolation to claim that the ScR is OP (other than RoF being to high), while there is a ton that shows the CR and RR are insanely OP. Please explain.