Dang dude!?! Why so pessimistic? Suggest something!! Don't JUST be critical? Have a little bit of imagination and contribute to the discussion. Where do YOU think the scout role fits in? I gave it a huge headshot buff. Who knows what other bonuses they are getting come 1.5. What if you could give bonuses for kills >100m that would be a sniper WP buff...

Do you seriously think scouts should be AS survivable as assaults/heavies/logis in brawling range, though? That's dumb if you do. I'm suggesting different roles for them. Making them get the BEST SP from uplinks and scans and assists could do a lot to boost their WP gain. I can get a LOT of WP from uplink spam. Also in 1.5 I think they are giving out WP for equipment destruction as well.

If everyone got something like +10 WP for equipment destruction and scouts got +20, that would be huge too.

IMO this is what is kind of ruining the game. When everyone wants every suit to be usable for every role. "My heavy is just too slow...my scout is just too weak...the logi has too many equipment slots...the assault should have as many slots as the logi...I can't armor tank my minmatar suit..." are all arguing for a vanilla game.

I'm sorry Mosselia but I disagree with this statement
"Scouts should be CQC speed tankers not this pansy sniper or recon crap."

Why shouldn't a scout suit be a recon scout?
You believe a scout is meant to be a brawler suit, why?
If you prefer we can discuss this on a new thread, but this something that is highly debatable!

Well you see thats the thing, if you basing your argument on the mini suit bonus, I could go as far as to say based on gallante suit bonuses the gallante is perfect for sneaking around and keeping out of sight.

The nova knives allow you to pick off clueless enemies, that doesn't make it a cqc god, it makes it master of suprise.
Also why is the suit speacilization bonus a reduction to scan profile?
Why is the cloaking module we may be getting supposed to be scout only?

why are scouts so good at sneaking if they aren't mean for sneaking, and using there sneakiness for the benifit of the squad?

This is admittedly probably the closest thing to a well articulated counter-argument to my proposed change, so props to you.

However, in that context, it seems that the game starts to boil down to, 'how do you farm WP in the greatest way'? The answer then is, play caldari/minamatar logi and farm WP.

While my proposed solution doesn't completely avoid that, it at least attempts to eliminate what has become a WP superiority that logistics suits provide. Logis can currently get a steady stream of income indirectly from their equipemnt slots, while also having the best tank and a good bit of PG/CPu left over for great weapon DPS, while basically only having to sacrifice some speed and shield regen for the most part.

So while tieing WP's and suit type to role performance you may be able to accuse that system as a type of 'job descrimination' (negatively) or 'affirmative action' (positively) you could turn the argument around and say you are pretty much guilty of 'classism or racism' for creating a system where people CAN'T get maximum WP unless they picked the best race/class right from the start.

Emphasis on Proto, the scanner you are refering to specifically comes with a 12db prescision.
But it also happens to come with a low pulse time, low FOV and high recharge. You would only use this for catching scouts specifically.

Every other scanner can be avoided with a proto suit and 1 proto dampener giving just 18db precision.
As for the cloak, im just using it to clarify a point, butmthats fine remove it from the arguement.

The scouts low profile is only defeated by scanners of the same tier, and only by a scout finding scanner if the scout equips a single dampner. I would say that is pretty sneaky.

No it should be balanced on all match types. The reason scouts aren't sneaky enough on PC is because of old maps having poor design! Not because scouts aren't sneaky enough!

If you take the long route, which is more viable as a scout due to its speed, you can do thimgs like place uplinks behind enemy lines for flankimg, you can capture enemy installations without being detected. You can disable a pilot who has called in a tank (not in the redline, thats a whole different ball game).

Why use a scout, when a mini assault, with some kincats is almost as fast has more health and can even reach the same scan profile? If an assault suit can fill that role better than the light suit, maybe it isn't the light suits role!