RR: -2m range, no DPS change
ARR: -5m range, no DPS change

9. ARR 400
10. RR 398

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The reason most players "flock" to the OP is because they cannot compete with their current weapon. And when you cannot compete then you die and when you die you lose money, and most of us, including myself can't afford to sustain losses. So we have to try our best to use what is currently OP.

It's not our fault, just our way of compensating for LOW PAYOUTS in pub matches, as well as under-balanced weapon system. Don't blame the player base for trying to continue playing the game, try to make suggestions to make other weapons more viable and competitive. An example is the Mass Driver. How many times do you see this on the field... Almost never, unless the person is on a rooftop shooting down at you... In that particular case this weapon is amazing. But anywhere else, it's horrible. 1v1 it's horrible at any range other than the MD being on a higher ground. So you never see any players using it. The same goes for the Laser Rifle. There is one (or possibly two) maps where this weapon is excellent. The Dom/Ridge Hill map, and the bridge map are the maps where this weapon is great, when you're standing on a roof top or high ground from 80+ meters up. Then it's great.

So, in every other case we have these other weapons... And to limit it even further, only some of them work for all cases of close range and long range. Then you limit it even further by making the longer range more powerful than close range without limiting the close range capabilities of the long range weapons so the long range weapons become stronger in all cases. Thus you see them more often and they become OP and FoTM...

As a minja, my CR/ScR usage comes to the same thing. Fitting costs. I love the ScR, but can't fit it on any of my suits without ridiculous amounts of sacrifice.

I choose the CR mostly because it allows me to make the most of my other slots still (which doesn't amount to much either).

The CRs low fitting costs were meant to be options for minmatar suits that have reduced fitting ability (unless I am mistaken), but because their is no racial specific bonus or anything like that for the item, all other suits that have plenty of fitting capacity can fit a CR and now have the ability to make fewer, if any, sacrifices in the rest of their slots.

IF the CRs low fitting cost were directly because of the minmatar's lower fitting capacity, I would suggest considering raising the fitting requirements on the CR and giving minmatar suits a fitting bonus to it.

Not a big thing, but something to consider going forward.