Amarr: shield effective Large laser. Holding fire increases heat, damage, and beam width. Has a "damage doughnut" like the small laser rifle. The counterplay to this is to get up close and booty blast it.

Minmatar: armor effective Large burner. Allows you to melt madrugars like the cheese in a philly cheese steak, IF you can get in its extremely tight range. Wouldn't require new particles; take the vehicle on fire effect, scale it and add bloom. The obvious counter to this is to stay the hell away and suppress with long range AV currently available... or you know, that shippy dropping thing.

I've considered this before but duration based laser damage profiles with a traditional laser curve simply will not be effective unless their base damage starts high enough to inflict meaningful damage off the bat......and against infantry....... would really sting.

While I'm sure the parallels between the Light Weapon Laser Rifle and a Laser Turret would be interesting to draw they would not result in a functional anti tank turret given the traditional traits of laser weapons.

Direct fire duration based could work. A 2 second beam that inflicts X Damage over the time so long as the beam is kept on target.

But that would create another silly difference between infantry and tanks, while I agree wholly that it's a good idea.

What if we increased the base damage, but decreased the damage ramp comparative to laser rifles?
Or we could just make the damage curve much flatter and less punishing compared to a LR.
I feel we shouldn't make things different from vehicles just because.

Fair enough. I have no clue about eve, except that you can't fit like in DUST

At one point in Dust you could fit vehicles like in EVE.