Acid Cannon

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There are a couple of fundamental flaws that make lr worse than other choices later in the game, and since they are connected to the design of this game i don't think there will be any easy fixes to actually make them equally good. The whole concept of having the price per dps rise as the range increases is based on the idea that when you have longer range than your opponent, you don't need as many items to help you kill him (hull, tp, speed etc) and therefore you have alot more to spend on weapons. this makes lr strong early, since buying those items (especially tp/speed) greatly reduces your amount of dps, and therefore the lr guy can kill you anyway. But as the game progresses and you get more money, the 3k for a porter doesnt put such a dent in your dps. You can buy it, and still kill of the guy with lr even tho you have weapons worth 6k less (speed pack). This is the biggest problem, and is hard to solve without making lr op early.
Other factors such as aiming (alot harder to stay in range of just your opponent with higher range) and the fact that you won't be able to share dmg as effectively (since you need to spend more on your weapons for the same dps, your hp suffers) also helps putting your team in a disadvantage in cp fights since they will have to share dmg between 4 players instead of 5. That's a huge difference since the amount of hp a tank has increases alot faster (in cost per hp) than the amount of dps you do.
These reasons makes the lr a very hard weapon to balance, and it will probably never be the same as the 1k-600 range weapons, and more for niche situations and for fun play.