Allow them to keep their OHK ranges. That's where a shotgun should be.... However, make the range falloff after that point much more sharp. Currently, and since the start of Destiny, the skill gap is very low when using them. While other weapons have had their skill gaps changed throughout history, shotguns have remained pretty stable and as viable as ever. Everyone has been tackling it's OHK range solely, never ever touching the range falloff instead. Shotguns are meant to do their damage in the short range. The more powerful ones are meant to focus their damage right into their target in front of them - hence why they should ALWAYS BE SLOW (The RoF-Impact relationship of every other weapon besides rockets and swords). The less powerful ones are more meant to pick off someone so they can be hit with something else. They can still do well in the face-to-face combat scenarios but aren't as effective as the ones made to do that high, close damage. To make this scenario actually work (EDIT:) four things have to happen: 1.the whole RoF-Impact relationship needs to be brought into play. 2.the second being a new Impact-Range relationship specifically for shotguns 3.A new stability-bullet spread relationship must be implemented (which I will get more into as a later post/edit. Most likely going for a really high stability will make he bullet spread slightly tighter. Who knows, maybe shot package can make SOME sort of comeback. 4. A similar impact-magazine size relationship like other types of weapons. To explain number two:[spoiler]The high impact shotguns are meant to do very high damage in the closest ranges. Usually these rounds are denser or heavier than normal so the barrel will shoot them at a slower velocity than other lower impact shotguns. So while they'll do nice damage in the shortest ranges, past that they'll slow down really quickly to a point where their size/weight makes them ineffective. To represent this, higher impact shotguns will have the lowest range cap of all the shotguns. Where that cap would be is up for testing and debate. As the density and weight of the pellets decrease, the barrels will fire them at faster velocities which leads to them staying effective at very slightly farther and farther ranges. In game, this would be represented by a gradual increase of the range cap of a certain shotgun as the impact decreases. However, as the range cap gets higher, the range falloff gets more gradual within its respective range if the range is below the cap. But no matter what range you have on a shotgun, it's damage will only completely disappear at the same point. The range stat just determines at what point that damage starts to steeply decrease. like the higher impact class, after hitting the edge of its range it'll sharply decrease in damage. [u]SEE THE LINK FOR MORE DETAILS[/u] [b][i][u]Note: As a few side effects...[/u][/i][/b] 1.Aggressive ballistics while not decreasing the fire rate will lower the range cap by a certain amount instead of actual range - SPECIFIC TO SHOTGUNS! Honestly, on other weapons, aggressive ballistics barely does enough to counter its setbacks. That should be fixed. 2.Like now, rangefinder at the range cap will exceed the actual cap by the same small amount that it does now. 3.However, with this, you don't have to immediately dismantle a shotgun if it does not have range perks. While it will go down in damage output, it would not be as drastic as it is now... especially when I try to figure how to actually make higher stability useful - most likely bullet spread wise(which means getting rid of the RNG component). That'll have to wait. 4.The only shotguns that would be exempt from this would be Universal Remote, the Fourth horseman, and the Chaperone. [url=https://www.desmos.com/calculator/avwyidcw7x]Graphical representation[/url] This is a graph that represents what I'm talking about in more mathematical detail. Rm is the range cap with respect to impact. Ra is any value of range going from 1 to 1.05Rm - though you'll have to put those values in yourself. Df is the smallest distance which falloff has an effect - after the pellets reach the distance set by your shotgun's range value. Dm is the base max distance(the base being an impact of 67 and range of 32) the range can reach. Cd is the distance coefficient with respect to Dm. Dr is the distance reached by the range value. Cr is the range coefficient that determines the pattern of the falloff after reaching Dr. a,b,c,f, and g are constants used to calculate actual pellet damage with respect to their impacts. D is the damage function while P(x) is the percentage function over distance. D•P(x) is the final function of pellet damage over distance. There are [EDIT]four curves being displayed on the coordinate field: The [u]top most curve[/u] shows the damage vs distance relationship of a Final Round shot with the added boost of Crowd Control; The [u]second-to-top-most curve[/u] shows the same relationship but of a shotgun with only Final Round active. The [u]middle curve[/u] shows the same relationship but of a shotgun with only Crowd Control active; The [u]bottom curve[/u] shows the same relationship in its base form - AKA base damage. And before any of you say so, while you would think that it would make the lower impact shotguns the OP choice you have to remember that bullet spread is STILL a factor, so even if you have max range some of the pellets will miss the target in a hopefully non-RNG fashion. Also, this graph is assuming that all shotguns fire 12 pellets per shot. If a shotgun fires more or fewer than 12 pellets, just adjust damage accordingly.[/spoiler]