Actually the problem is your logical reasoning is flawed. You want there to be more diversity in the weapons people use. So in an attempt to obtain the diversity desired you wish to uber nerf a weapon that is infact balanced in an effort to force ppl from using this weapon to using a different weapon thereby increasing the "diversity". Only this is perhaps one of the most insanely idiotic reasonings for nerfing something that anyone could think of. A player should not be "forced" to not use the weapon they want to use just to increase the diversity of the weaponry in this game. Even if you do this then how can you make people spec differently...what if they all specced into ASCR? Then your have ASCR 514 (according to you) and you back to the exact same place you were before with a vast majority of the kills being done by 1 weapon because a vast majority of players have chosen to use that weapon.

Simply put you cannot/should not be able to force diversity in a game where you can choose the weapon you use. Like I said there are better weapons already on the market for people to use and many people despite knowing that there is a better weapon will continue to use the "inferior" weapon because they are familiar with it....or like it......or like the looks of it...(whatever reason they personally have). People migrated to the flaylock because it was OP...and some people follow that trend. However even with the flaylock being OP you still didnt see a majority of people using it because they chose not to. Heck I chose not to spec into the flaylock because I knew it was a noob weapon and I didnt want to use it for that reason (i also rarely if ever use sidearms). You cannot dictate other players person preferences. Heck eventually we are supposed to have 4 different models of assault rifles (1 for every race) and yet you will still probably see a majority if players stick with the original plasma rifles even when there are better options out there.

BTW I am a ASCR user....before that an AR user. I moved to the ASCR because I saw that it was better than the AR in every single way. But I dont have an issue with ppl using the AR because thats what they choose to use. Maybe I just dont understand the mentality that is behind your thought process of "the devs need to make sure that the weapons usage is diverse so they should nerf/buff weapons accordingly to create a diverse weapon environment". Perhaps its just my libertarian mind coming through that refuses to allow me to accept such a gross example of freedom of choice being taken from a player.

Yes you gamer who is good at using sniper rifles...CCP has now designated you as a shotgunner...as such you can only use the shotgun now because we must maintain a diverse weapon usage and we see that there are just too many sniper rifles in use as such your name has come up as one of the players who will now be using the shotgun exclusively. Have a nice day

Hell, I would take buffing the other weapons, or even not nerfing them in to the ground. The AR nerf brigade won't have that though, so the only thing left is to bring the AR down to the level of the rest of the weapons.

The AR kills as often as 11 of the available 14 weapons combined. Combined. It doesn't matter if it's OP or not, it's hurting diversity, and hurting the game.

Also, this logic really makes no sense regarding people using the AR. It seems people migrated to the Flaylock at ok speeds before it was nerfed. If the AR was not OP, people would stop using it and migrate to other weapons, but they aren't. The overusage is the problem regardless of whether or not it fits your interpretation of OP.

Lol Assault tears are coming from everywhere.
I can't wait till HMG's problems are fixed too. AR 514 is over.

And I will be shredding your heavy from further distance and with more damage for greater accuracy with an ASCR.

ASCR 514 is born