This is a bit of an eye opener and thanks for sharing.

However, it still looks like a crucial element is missing, how rifles are being used in game. In my humble opinion, there is no reason for all ten rifles to be getting equal amounts of kills per spawn.

Do you take into conideration for example usage and design philosophy first and see if the gun is overperforming or tweak the numbers to follow design philosphy afterwards?

Using the Rail Rifle: Design to be a long range in line with caldari lore. Is there data to show that wow, the RR is getting alot of close range kills this is unusual for a longe range weapon? Or rather the RR is getting alot of kills everywhere lets nerf the CQC because its long range weapon?

Before any proposal i'm sure you do need the stats to back you up. I'm curious as too what stats unrelated to kills are taken into consideration, also other factors such as ease of use, fitting costs, market purchases, damage output etc. By this reasoning its easy to see why shotguns remain untouched, a scout might one shot a medium frameor two/ three shot a heavy and get killed right afterwards by another scout, it might look just fine according to these metrics bu IMO unbalanced in terms of gameplay.

So what I'm seeing here, is that the rail rifle was roughly balanced and you decided to hit it with a harsh nerf anyways, because you didn't like the fact that it was being used in a game where the map design accommodates two things - long range poking or short-ish range brawling.

Range is king in shooters and always has been unless map design puts you in knife-fights all the time.

Because it doesn't seem like the data you have supports the nerf that was made.

^Completely serious. There hasn't been any data provided that suggests that the RR was overperforming in CQC or that it was even getting a much much higher KDR than other weapons. Just a lot of data that says "people like using it".

Because it paints it into a corner like the laser rifle, you are turning a racial servicemans weapon (a weapon that should be functional across all ranges) into a specialist weapon (like the laser or massdriver or PLC). You are dramatically and arbitrarily limiting a weapons ability to play the objective in skirmish or domination style matches, simply because it is 'used' more frequently than you think it should be. I'd still like to see data provided for KDA's at various ranges, if you actually have such information.

I'll point you towards Jasyn Larrisen's posts because he's better at expressing the underpinning issues of this.

There are so many better ways that you could have done this Rattati. I'm not saying that the weapon didn't need to be tweaked or that I want it completely undone - I'm saying that what was done is overdone.

Let me clarify some things about my opinions.

When the RR received the 4x increase to hipfire kick, the ARR also received a 4x increase to hipfire kick. This is what my issue is. If this was an accident I'd like it fixed posthaste. If it was intentional, I'd like to know why so I can understand the reasoning better and can formulate a proper opinion on it.

Thanks for posting this and as someone who has not logged into the game in quite some time I am very eager to see more.

That said I'm gonna make fun of you a bit.

First, for the Kills chart... come on man, that axis.

Second, for the K/S chart you may as well be making the lines vibrate with those colors. You have 12 lines and use 4 shades of orange/yellow, 4 shades of blue, 3 shades of black/white, and 1 green. I have to zoom in and constantly check the legend because those blues are so damn similar. The blues are also the ones with the most other lines around them. Maybe distribute those colors a bit better?

Also maybe some grouping? I don't know what it is with you guys but you put things in the most random orders. Grouping colors to types (along with better visibility) would make it much easier to find what I'm looking for. If all the ARs are green I can easily see overall AR performance as well. I'm not saying you need to spend a ton of time on this but maybe have some sort of pattern? I'll skip style critiques for the other charts as I think you get the idea.

Also I know you guys mostly use Google Docs for distributing data but maybe you could try... Google Docs? You may be able to find some successful examples somewhere. It removes a lot of the color variation concern when i can just highlight lines.

Also I love the inclusion of events, however it is hard to determine where the actual "line" is for them. For example Bravo released 10 days before the Expert challenge event, but it is hard to see that fact on the chart.

Which leads me to my next point that you don't need to do all this personally. I just spent a ton of my time working on something based on your data. Clearly you have a community willing to foolishly waste their own time. I've logged in maybe 1 to 2 times in the past half year and I was willing to throw in time. Give us the raw data so anyone digging into the information can have an easier time. I mean the numbers are technically there. I could overlay a grid and get decent estimates pretty quickly. But why make me work for it? Plus it makes things easier with google docs. That said definitely give explanations because yes people are going to fit data to match their own conclusions rather than search for all possible conclusions. I caught myself doing that already. I'm no statistician. I am not even 100% sure if I read the data from the K/S sheet right because of those freaking blues.

As for the data itself, I know ranges were normalized in Bravo so my guess is pre-Bravo Advanced weapon data is way different, but this guy would imply that a lot of action is going on in non-protoland. Even if the data is only Bravo onwards I'd be curious to have a look. I know historically many people who could run proto would not (especially in public matches). I imagine you've looked at the data yourself but I can't help feeling like the representative group for this data can only be a smaller percent of the player population (even if only compared to advanced gear use).

I know in many ways giving us unfiltered data can lead to simple inaccurate statements that start angry mobs (Subdredditors do go on Reddit now and then after all) but then what's the worst that might happen? People getting into a huff over absurd stuff they don't properly understand and complaining on the forums? Oh noooooo....

P.S. Also those yellows. I'm pretty sure I saw this exact picture on the wall in the movie Psycho.