I want to discuss changing weapon optimals to affect both long and close ranges, to make sure everybody knows what I mean, you have an optimal and an effective range, your effective range is where your weapon will stop firing past, if you have a weapon with 100m effective, a bullet won't travel past 100m.

Actually made an alt to post my ideas again, as I'm sure the majority of you remember it's what I do (As in, I make bad ideas everyone facepalms at <3). As always, I know where the Feedback thread is CCP, this is a discussion.

I want to discuss changing weapon optimals to affect both long and close ranges, to make sure everybody knows what I mean, you have an optimal and an effective range, your effective range is where your weapon will stop firing past, if you have a weapon with 100m effective, a bullet won't travel past 100m. Your optimal is a range within that where you will do 100% damage, so for example, if you're running a weapon with an 80m optimal and 100m effective, you will do 100% damage all the way to 80m, but it will drop off significantly past that.

What I would like to see, is most weapons being treated like a Laser Rifle. For example, a Rail Rifle is an effective long range weapon, it has a high effective range and it's optimal is from 0. A laser rifle however loses efficiency the closer you are if you're outside the optimal.

Surprisingly I hear players state that the Rail Rifle is infact, OP, now while it may or may not be OP, the reason people feel that it is, is because it can be very effective up close, and with such a large damage output you can see why people feel that way. So why not, instead of weapons optimal start from say 0m-80m with an effective range of 100m, why not make it 40m-80m with an effective range of 0m-100m.

Thanks for reading.

Actually, since 1.2 there is optimal, effective, and absolute range. But even then the bullet does not stop at the absolute range; it just doesn't really do any damage.

You made an alt?

So what's your main??????

Actually, since 1.2 there is optimal, effective, and absolute range. But even then the bullet does not stop at the absolute range; it just doesn't really do any damage.

Turning the rail rifle into the caldari laser doesn't fix it. It is the only main-line caldari weapon and it should keep its effectiveness throughout its range. What it shouldn't keep is the ranges that are so extreme that no other rifle can compete with it unless they're put on a scout, or the dps that allows it to perform comparably to other weapons in the same category throughout its whole range.

The. Rail Rifle. Needs. A. Range. Reduction.

The only ppl complaining about the RR are heavies who complain about every counter to them, despite none of them being hard counters or even feasible

NO YOU ***** DON'T TOUCH MY ScR IT'S BALANCED

The problem with those is that caldari and amarr dont have the best sidearms. The amarr has only a pistol, which is a mid range sidearm, not good up close (in the hands of most people), and the caldari have 2 long ranged sidearm (even the magsec isn't the best at CQC. If they were to get better CQC sidearms, maybe then I'd be fine with only doing 30 % damage with a scrambler rifle at point blank.

Actually made an alt to post my ideas again, as I'm sure the majority of you remember it's what I do (As in, I make bad ideas everyone facepalms at <3). As always, I know where the Feedback thread is CCP, this is a discussion.

I want to discuss changing weapon optimals to affect both long and close ranges, to make sure everybody knows what I mean, you have an optimal and an effective range, your effective range is where your weapon will stop firing past, if you have a weapon with 100m effective, a bullet won't travel past 100m. Your optimal is a range within that where you will do 100% damage, so for example, if you're running a weapon with an 80m optimal and 100m effective, you will do 100% damage all the way to 80m, but it will drop off significantly past that.

What I would like to see, is most weapons being treated like a Laser Rifle. For example, a Rail Rifle is an effective long range weapon, it has a high effective range and it's optimal is from 0. A laser rifle however loses efficiency the closer you are if you're outside the optimal.

Surprisingly I hear players state that the Rail Rifle is infact, OP, now while it may or may not be OP, the reason people feel that it is, is because it can be very effective up close, and with such a large damage output you can see why people feel that way. So why not, instead of weapons optimal start from say 0m-80m with an effective range of 100m, why not make it 40m-80m with an effective range of 0m-100m.

Thanks for reading.