Close range weapons need to have high DPS but more dispersion. This way you have more dmg in close range and less dmg in medium and long range.

Medium range weapons need to have medium DPS less dispersion.

Long range weapons need to have low DPS but no dispersion.

Give the AR more RPM but adjust the dispersion.

The combat rifle would still have over 500 DPS.

3 shots a second would put it at 930 RPM.
Balac has 857.14.

Also, TTK is nice with the other rifles, the AR is actually one of the lowest, despite it having the lowest range.
If an AR user gets close to you, and you have one of the other rifles, you have no right to cry about it having higher DPS.

You have every right if that DPS is nearly 100 Damage more, unless you happen to be using a sniper rifle.
I was comparing at advanced because it has the roundest number sets.

And I said adding 3 rounds to the current ROF would be potentially game breaking.
Consider my idea of nerfing every other rifle by an extra 1 dmg a shot, it will certainly balance combat rifles against it better,

You have every right if that DPS is nearly 100 Damage more, unless you happen to be using a sniper rifle.
I was comparing at advanced because it has the roundest number sets.

And I said adding 3 rounds to the current ROF would be potentially game breaking.
Consider my idea of nerfing every other rifle by an extra 1 dmg a shot, it will certainly balance combat rifles against it better,

No, it wouldn't.

Combat rifles would still have well over 100 more DPS than plasma rifles despite having a much greater range.

Nice off you to ignore my other post then!
Since it's obviously too much bother for you, the proble with the Combat Rifle is the abuse of its burst fire, like so many weapons before it, if, you can tap fire fast enough you can 'purposefully' break tne weapon, overclock it if you will.

At Advanced level a Combat Rifle will achieve 540 DPS if fired at fully automatic, which is ridiculous, on this much we can agree. This however is not a problem with the weapon per se, its the mechanics surrounding the weapon. Now at advanced the AR achieves 394 DPS, which is equivalent to 14.5 CR rounds, as such you limit the CR to 4 3-round bursts a second, giving 324 DPS, 70 lower than the AR, without breaking either weapon or really even effecting the majority of CR users who can't reach the 6 bursts a second required to break the weapon.

The Combat Rifle isn't overpowered its just being abused by the tryhard section of the playerbase.
Think back to the TACAR, its the same again, or the normal AR being bursted so fast it gave continous fire without any recoil. Or the melee glitch that made you punch like a machine gun.

Match the Balac's rate of fire. Observe that. Make changes. A duvolle with a balac's ROF will put it at 471.4 DPS. Puts it a little more DPS than the six kin ACR.

Currently the AR is the least effective rifle (gallente) and is in terms of rate of fire between the assault scrambler rifle and the combat rifle. However its range is the biggest issue and the allmost identical DPS with the combat rifle so the only natural thing is that people use the combat rifle (and lower fitting cost too). So in my opinion the rate of fire should be buffed from 750 up to 850~900 rounds per minute. It would justifiy the higher fitting cost over the combat rifle and gain the close range advantage over all other weapon systems. It would still be horrible on long range but at least the weapon has a purpose to exist.