remove the tracking pnalty from void (or the falloff) and they are fine

Give the optimal range bonus on caldari hulls a rethink, such as adding a 5 or 10% falloff bonus on top of it.
Given the nature of hybrid ammo ( high damage, optimal debuff) and blaster turrets ( almost equal optimal and falloff ) the inherent range advantage shrinks to a basically unnoticable distance.

Additional changes I want;

Small Blasters +5% DMG
Medium Blasters + 15% DMG
Large Blasters +10% DMG

pointless. need range through ship bonuses or a huge Null buff.

I posted my thoughts in response to the hybrid rebalance in a different thread, so please refer to that: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=290102#post290102

Some other things:
- The damage difference between the 2nd and 3rd tier railguns is too small. Give the 150, 250 and 425mm rails a bit more damage, to make them a worthy step up from the 120, 200 and 350mm calibres.

A few things about ammo:
- Null ammo needs +50% for both optimal and falloff. Barrage gives a 50% falloff bonus, and Scorch gives 50% extra to range. Blasters depend on both range and falloff, so Null ought to give a 50% bonus for both, to help truly address the range issues of blasters.
- Significantly increase base damage for Antimatter, Void and Javelin. This would make blasters truly melt face at close range. Railguns would be more viable for mid-range engagements, where their counterparts are actually pulse lasers and autocannons with long-range ammo.
- Simplify the ammo types. There's too much granularity of range at present. Instead, make hybrid ammo more like projectile ammo, so different ammo types have different balances of thermal and kinetic damage, such as 20/80, 50/50 and 80/20.

While most people see these changes as a Gallente boost, let's not forget that Caldari use hybrids and could use a little love too.

The role that CCP seems to have envisioned for Caldari ships does not exist.

The Caldari, based on most ship bonuses, are put into the "medium damage from extreme range" role. A role that no longer truly exists on any level of play. This does not just affect railguns, but missiles also. However, I'll focus on hybrids as they are the focus of of this thread and devblog.

Extreme ranges are usually considered 150 - 250 km out, and the Caldari have several ships that can, in theory, reach out and touch someone from those ranges. The real question is why would you want to do this. Considering the simple facts that not everyone flies or enjoys flying Caldari means that several people in any sufficiently large fleet will not be able to shoot from more than about 100 - 120 km. The fleet's optimal range is only as long as the member with the shortest optimal range. This means that any Caldari pilots will be forced to fit for shooting at literally half of their optimals. This means that Caldari could potentially choose a new ammo so that he'd do more damage, but in many cases this can actually lead to a damage reduction or an insignificant increase in DPS (if not using faction ammo) as spike does do significant damage for it's range bonus. Furthermore, at any ranges exceeding the warp range, it is no trouble at all for a covert ops to place himself where the enemy fleet can simply warp to their optimals. With the changes to scanning, this can take any organized fleet as few as about 12 to 13 seconds.

In smaller scale and solo stuff long range just doesn't work because of the range of warp disruptors and scramblers.

The extreme range role simply doesn't (and perhaps cannot) exist

please remove speed penalties from armor rigs, or just make Gall ships shield-tankers.

Make them dominate the close in fight and give people a reason to commit to the fight and probably still lose their ship.

Additional changes I want;

Small Blasters +5% DMG
Medium Blasters + 15% DMG
Large Blasters +10% DMG

Disagree. Make the speed changes directly to the Gallente ships. If you do it to rigs then you just make the other races (mostly ammar even more badass to fly. An armor tanked cane with its tiny sig radius and full speed would be absolutely devastating.)

At least this is needed. Hybrid ammo changes would help as well.

I'm crossposting this even though it's technically off topic... However very relevant even to the interests of this very thread:

If you want to appear as a "new" improved and caring CCP, I strongly suggest seeding the common faction ammos on SISI right about now. Asking us to test things and even test balance on SISI and *still* neglecting to provide the most used on TQ PVP ammo is so "old" (*AWESOME*) CCP. It cannot be that hard, can it?

Every Gallente ship with an active tanking bonus needs a change also (though not necessarily the tanking bonus)

7.5% bonus to armor repair amount of armor repair systems and remote repair received per level.