If you take away range, then it becomes useless. What good is a sniper rifle that can't Snipe?

Don't nerf the sniper rifle range. It's a sniper rifle, not a water gun. These people tend to shoot from far away rather than 10 meters in front of you.

dude alot of weapons can counter redline snipers, forges, railtanks, ADS, regular dropships, hell Plasma Canons and thats only if their 200m

Yes, it would.

Yes, they are.

What do you think snipers are for? They've existed forever, and there will always be the search for a better sniper rifle. A real sniper rifle will have a usable range of 1-2km, so 500m is a joke. Snipers should be allowed to shoot from anywhere on the map - the further away they are the harder to target.

If you're going to nerf anything, nerf the accuracy of the rifle. That's what really drops off with range, but I don't see that here.

Snipers have to run the risk of being taken out by scouts and other snipers. It's not anything you could call being a coward. It's just another role in the game. Not everyone can be a sniper - there have to be enough on each team to make it interesting. But you have to have enough of everyone else to be able to take and hold objectives, too.

It is not easy being a sniper. But the shorter range that they are forced to use actually makes hitting easier, not harder. You've created this problem yourselves, all you moaners. If you just learnt to grin and bear it, you would still have snipers at extreme range and then a nerf of their accuracy wouldn't be as ridiculous as you probably think it is.

You probably all wish that snipers don't exist. CCP could do that for you, you know? But they probably won't. I play in EvE as well, and we have the same sort of problem children who hate Titans. They had them nerfed too, and it turned them into the most useless and expensive ships in the game. They nerfed all sorts of other ships that were good too, just because people didn't like them.

Eventually taken to the logical extreme, there would be no Titans, or Tengus or Drakes. Or snipers. Then because you don't like tanks, they can nerf them too, and what about scouts?

Yes, you can nerf all the suits and fits people don't like but then who's going to decide which ones remain? The idea is to have all these different roles so that there is richness in the game for people who don't like 1v1 battle. There are those who don't you know? When I play EvE, I use Caldari missile ships that snipe from extreme range, "kiting" to avoid being hit. It's not easy. It takes lots of skill and very well-honed tactics, and all they need to do to kill you is be faster than you are.

Sniping is the same no matter where it is or what you use. Every time you try to nerf it, it makes it worse somehow. The only way to properly nerf snipers is to remove them from the game. Then you can neither moan about them, nor use them.

But that's what snipers do! You don't have to like it.

So you want them to play by your rules? But people don't necessarily all want to play by your rules. Get CCP to change the game so that snipers have to play by your rules and you have for all intents and purposes destroyed the role.

Change the rules so I have to play by your rules and I won't be playing. Neither will any of the other snipers that like being snipers. Fair enough you don't like us, but remove the role and you remove the interest that it gives to both snipers and non-snipers alike.

And yes, nerfing the role removes its purpose and therefore the reason for snipers to play.