Scout are not for HP tanking, frontline assaulting & etc... it's about play & think different.
Join the channel: Scouts United - ask, try, squap up & watch others scouts.

If you see me only like "mountain ape" :) then it's you have bad observing or luck seeing me with scr pistol, melee, grenade kills in killfeed as a "mountain ape".
I can share with you my gallente scout shotgun-passive scanner fit, but you won't like it, it's a hardmode & not always works (depends on map & situation).

Scr rifle + adv. active scanner btw is maybe best choise for you. Seize state of scr rifle will make you very vulnerable as a scout, you need to count your shots & do headshots for fast killing (because you are scout made of paper). And you still will die no matter what :)

Gallente scout is a portable passive scanner, no speed or HP tanking. With maxed skills you can have up to 56m passive scann range, but you can't detect another scout even with 1 complex precision mod - that will be your side effect. And sometimes you won't pick up even a heavy near you on radar, that **** is not always working for some odd reason (CCP...).

Well he complaining about being scout & it's minmatar proto scout, that has more survivability than gallente scout- that means he don't know how to play a scout

I've had the proto for months now an pull it out from time to time but I recently started a new character that I'm building to prepare for the caldari scout if it's any good, so for now I'm working on nothing but passive skill bonuses an ALL suit CPU pg reductions .
If you went minmatar you need knives, it's a knifers suit, gallente is a shot gunner in my opinion because you can take a beating.

Now before 1.2 build the minmatar was a beast for speed, sg , an novas. But with all the changes what you seen others do months before isn't really the case now, ccp took our speedy assassin an f ' d his : dodging, jumping, hotbox , stamina, an made all other suits that much harder to hit an run cuz they can actually chase us down now.
A friggen logi shot gunner with 2/2 reds an greens is a nasty bugger to have chase you!

So basically go back to running a mega weak fit like a level one suit, that way you ll trick yourself into thinking that your proto is the weak suit an you ll live longer.
Try this fit for a shotgunner:
Adv shield energizer
2complex s/e
Complex green
Feroscale plate or enhanced armor rep
Toxin sub

Now that fit can't take a huge hit so having 234 shields an ur armor is no biggi but you always have full health!
I had a guy hit me I went behind a wall 2 seconds an boom full health I even started usin shield reg an that's really irritating to the enemy they have to ohk you.
An use r/e they stop people from chasing me

Two words:
Sniper. Rifle.

if you're getting close, to "go for the kill", you're doing it wrong."close" = within 200m.


(Unless you're one o them psycho Knife Ninjas. but then you're still doing it wrong, 'cause you're getting spotted. Ninjas are never seen )