I think 35 s is still too long - it's too still frustrating to use and hence too un-fun. Personally I'd aim for reload time being half that of the shooting time, adjusting ROF and capacity as needed to get reasonable burst and sustained DPS.

This is Eve, not WOW. I'm sure most Eve players are patient enough to realise that despite a long reload time they are still doing good dps and massive burst damage which is sometimes more useful particularly in situation where you need to break past a shield recharge rate or surprising an enemy.

The way you describe it is as if Eve players are sugar infused 12 year olds foaming at the mouths because there are no pretty explosions happening on the screen for 35 seconds.

Physically they may be older than 12, but mentally/emotionally ..... I'm not so sure sometimes.

Please focus on the part of the post where I said we considered bigger changes because of how people felt about the extended reload in general, but decided to make a tweak and wait for more data and feedback rather than reversing things too quickly.

(plus they can repair heat damage at the same time TRIPLING the efficiency!!!!)

Its still works but scrubs gon b scrubs

I would prefer if we could find something like making the reload time only 10 seconds unless you have a weapon timer. This exact solution doesn't work because of how NPC timer works