This assumes that realworld combat limitations apply. Paintball weapons are often equipped with triggers that allow for alternating action and much higher rates of fire than 45-60rpm.

Nobody seems to want to look at facts and whiners want to keep whining while trolls collect their tears. So coming from a long time lover of semi auto assault rifles even before dust, ihave to say. Yes the TAR was over powered but it was still handled the wrong way. Single fire ARs are meant to have high accuracy high range and regardless of modded controllers should still fire as fast as you pull the trigger. That's how they've always worked and yes people complain but they get over it. The whining could've easily been suppressed by lowering the damage and making a much wider hip fire dispersion. That would limit it to med/ long ranges while retaining its effectiveness. Instead they've made the prototype and advanced level TARs identical in every way except a slight increase in damage while keeping the proto almost 4x the price of the advanced. The ROF barely effects a modded controllers advantage while crippling legit players, and even if every bullet hits, the clip size limits you to a couple kills per clip. This is not a "fix" and only humors the casuals screaming "OP" everytime they get killed. CCP has never catered to these people before why should they start now?

I'm not attacking your central point but merely raising awareness of the fact that real world numbers aren't necessarily the best comparison when talking about reasonable fire rates. It's a game after all and people probably behave and perform differently in games than in a serious combat environment.

Nobody seems to want to look at facts and whiners want to keep whining while trolls collect their tears. So coming from a long time lover of semi auto assault rifles even before dust, ihave to say. Yes the TAR was over powered but it was still handled the wrong way. Single fire ARs are meant to have high accuracy high range and regardless of modded controllers should still fire as fast as you pull the trigger. That's how they've always worked and yes people complain but they get over it. The whining could've easily been suppressed by lowering the damage and making a much wider hip fire dispersion. That would limit it to med/ long ranges while retaining its effectiveness. Instead they've made the prototype and advanced level TARs identical in every way except a slight increase in damage while keeping the proto almost 4x the price of the advanced. The ROF barely effects a modded controllers advantage while crippling legit players, and even if every bullet hits, the clip size limits you to a couple kills per clip. This is not a "fix" and only humors the casuals screaming "OP" everytime they get killed. CCP has never catered to these people before why should they start now?

Lol CCP never catered to QQing players?

What about all the AR-boys ranting about the LR in chromosome? Now look what you all have done to it BY ranting about it. You guys can be happy your weapon is still usable!

We'll be making some adjustments to the rifle ranges in the near future. We're currently testing the Rail Rifle and Combat Rifle internally (the two missing archetypes). Within the assault rifle class the four weapon types will break down as follows:

Assault Rifle (Hybrid - Plasma) - short range
Combat Rifle (Projectile - Autocannon) - short-mid range
Scrambler Rifle (Laser - Pulse) - mid range
Rail Rifle (Hybrid - Railgun) - long range

They won't be removed, no, but they will be tweaked slightly. The idea being that each race will have it's base variant be Assault, (Gallente) Burst (Minmatar), Breach (Caldari) or Tactical (Amarr) and then the variants are a specific race's take on the others using their own tech. So, you'd get an Assault Rail Rifle that attempts to somewhat mimic the behavior of the Gallente Assault Rifle and a Tactical Assault Rifle that attempts to mimic the Amarr Scrambler Rifle and so on.