Lasers are crap. So are most laser ships. People are always screaming "scorch this, scorch that" , but they never tell you how you are supposed to use that "range advantage" in cap starved brick that is highly suspectible to neuts, tds and has terrible tracking and utility.

When the forums were full of "buff blasters" threads, everyone was crying about how blasterboats need the capability to get into blaster range. But noone gives a **** that laserboats need the capability to keep the distance between them and target to be effective. Noone cares they are worthless bricks that can never choose the fight because they are slowest things around.

Ccps vision of the eve :
Winmatar (master race) - massive versatility, capless weapons with selectable damage, ability to choose the fight and outrun anything. Special note : ALWAYS present as underdogs to keep more buffs coming.
Gallente - facemelting dps, great tracking, ability to get into range, good utility, second only to winmatar (except some special ships). Special note : gallente ships have NEVER enough dps and tracking and should be able to evaporate everything in blaster range under 10 seconds. If you must bring "at 30cm range my megatron cant hit bs moving 0,5m/s" argument.
Caldari (pve race) - any ship that can compete with gaylente or winmatar gets nerfed, ships, that could possibly compete with them in future get useless bonuses, low speed or crap layout. Or everything. Special note : caldari ship pilots are considered "carebears" thus their opinion is never valid, if people are asking for fixing broken aspects of caldari weapon systems, start making up fantastic scenarios about shooting targets 200k away painted with bazilion target painters.
Amarr - targets for galente and winmatar, designed with lowest number of mids, worst utility, worst fittings, cap hungry weapons etc. so they arent overly dangerous to new winmatar and gallente pilots. Special note : when thread about fixing amarr ships/weapons pops up, always bring scorch argument and start making up fantastic scenarios where scorch owns blasters and autocannons combined. Use spreadsheets if you must, just protect projectiles and blasters at all cost!