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[Zarlaren]

GAUSS RIFLE 224 1,005 236 23.48% 19:55:38 3,467

Edited by Zarla, 27 August 2013 - 01:12 PM.

[Sephlock]

They won't listen.

[Zarlaren]

Here is my stats on all the weapons I used.

Weapon Statistics
Weapon Matches Fired Hit Accuracy Time Equip. Damage
AC/20 18 156 41 26.28% 02:01:52 795
MEDIUM LASER 398 8,560 3,853 45.01% 1 day 12:25:59 7,806
LRM 20 26 7,140 1,165 16.32% 02:19:38 1,041
SMALL LASER 64 589 144 24.45% 05:39:02 185
SRM 4 57 1,556 182 11.70% 05:13:10 380
ER LARGE LASER 25 162 58 35.80% 02:06:43 219
FLAMER 21 676 158 23.37% 01:34:40 71
LARGE LASER 102 1,160 583 50.26% 09:50:43 2,179
PPC 116 1,393 312 22.40% 10:32:22 2,714
MED PULSE LASER 49 730 276 37.81% 04:38:09 816
SML PULSE LASER 17 89 18 20.22% 01:44:20 16
ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM 378 0 0 0.00% 1 day 09:51:53 0
AC/2 5 84 19 22.62% 00:25:55 39
AC/5 1 25 11 44.00% 00:03:22 55
AC/10 64 656 97 14.79% 05:12:10 960
GAUSS RIFLE 224 1,005 236 23.48% 19:55:38 3,467
MACHINE GUN 19 4,950 1,269 25.64% 01:42:55 196
ULTRA AC/5 48 1,266 246 19.43% 03:47:19 1,308
LRM 5 67 2,720 484 17.79% 05:46:35 419
LRM 10 16 1,350 290 21.48% 01:16:44 251
LRM 15 121 21,034 3,902 18.55% 10:01:32 3,639
SRM 2 13 210 32 15.24% 01:22:46 56
SRM 6 92 6,084 786 12.92% 09:02:20 1,409
STREAK SRM 2 159 3,188 1,399 43.88% 16:44:43 2,932

[Zarlaren]

FLAMER 21 676 158 23.37% 01:34:40 71

This is the only weapon that is pretty much needs something done with hit 158 times to a enemy and only doing 71 total damage. 71 damage?

[Zarlaren]

What do you think the Gauss Rifle is doing after it shoots a round it is charging up the capacitors or coils and loading in another round why does this need to be done manually? Why not just increase the time it takes to auto charge like all other weapons do or make it a 300min range this manual charge for a ballistic don't make to much sense ballistics should just point and shoot. Charging up makes more sense on energy weapons.

[Raudskeggr]

How about no charge time and drop damage down to 10 with crit chance.

[R5D4]

I don't post to these forums often but this topic has grabbed my attention because I have been using Gauss Rifles consistently since the early founders days. Having read the ATD 45 section describing this "fix" I must say that I strongly object to this move as it makes little sense to me to take what (used to be) a balanced weapon and apply some irrational penalty to it because it just so happens to be used in conjunction with a poorly balanced weapon such as PPC/ERPPC's.

While I do agree with increasing the health of the Gauss Rifle so that it is no longer a glass canon everything else about this "fix" seems like all it does is serve to drive the PPC/Gauss users to switch to PPC plus something else.

This is, of course, only one small opinion of a minor member of this community but even still I wanted my voice heard. Please re-examine this decision PGI.