Response:
Love it!

Devil's Advocate:
If the cloak -- a single piece of equipment -- has taken over a year to develop/implement, how much time would pass prior to [freakin' awesome] ideas like these seeing the light of day? How would CCP justify spending that amount of time on such a tiny minority of players?

Response:
Love it!

Devil's Advocate:
If the cloak -- a single piece of equipment -- has taken over a year to develop/implement, how much time would pass prior to [freakin' awesome] ideas like these seeing the light of day? How would CCP justify spending that amount of time on such a tiny minority of players?

I like most of the ideas (particularly all the Caldari ones and the Gallente, though how would you see the area around your enemy? Split screen, mini-screen pop-up?), but I must object to the Amarr concept of slow, missing a slot, and high HP. That combination would be horrible; it'd narrow the already too small gap between scout and assault speeds (the Matar assault would likely be faster than the Amarr scout, and that's intolerable), exacerbate scouts' already poor slot layout, and add a truly useless amount of HP.

As for offensive mods tied with stamina, how about temporary greatly enhanced reload speeds? Bit of a stretch, but pretend that stamina includes extra adrenaline and an overall boost to eye-hand coordination, or some such bull. Activation of the mod would deplete your stamina significantly after each rapid reload, thereby being more useful to those with a larger stamina pool to begin with.

*PS: I forgot to mention, is the Amarr teleport like Blink or whatever in Dishonored? If so, I still don't like the idea of being slower than an assault suit when I'm not Blinking.

Year 9 - maybe

While I dont mind some of these, then we would probably see other suits modules as well and not sure if that is something I would like personally (a whole lot of gimmicks instead of just shooting) but hey could go with the flow if they are done well.

One thing on teleporting, it couldnt be instantaneous and if shot at during teleportation you would be much more vulnerable. Think, taking double damage or something. If not then it would need a long cooldown so it couldnt be abused.

The amarr trend is unfortunately slow, ehp, low slot, which won't go well for the amarr scout. So his abilities need to be amazing, or CCP needs to break the trend with the scout

Edit:

Almost forgot to address your gal question

The Gal one would have them show up on the mini map and by directional looking if they are further, you'd see the red arrow, similar as if an enemy was scanning

They've got to break the trend then. It's not really breaking it as much as dispensing with it when it no longer reasonably applies to Amarr military philosophy. Example: Amarr ships in EVE like the Executioner, or more specifically Amarr Interceptors; they're fast and have tough armor. Slower than the fastest Matar interceptors (actually I don't recall the exact numbers, but they're all quite close), but not slower than a regular, non-interceptor Matar frigate.

Point being, if the Amarr know they have to make something move quickly for an intended role, they are capable of doing so; the Amarr ships/dropsuits are slower on average than the other races, but that doesn't mean every Amarr ship/suit must be slower than every other race's equivalent. Same goes for the loss of a slot; exceptions to the norm must be made when circumstances demand so.

PS: Didn't mean to use your thread for my un-Amarrian-Amarr-scout soapbox campaign, but I'm somewhat passionate about the issue because I've been wanting an Amarr scout suit for so long.

FYI this could still be done while giving scouts a second equipment. I don't know why you're so hellbent on scouts staying stuck with one equipment, but surely you must understand that in a role that is more suited for sneaking around and avoiding combat situations, 2 equipment is far better than 2 weapons.

Offense
Solipsism Modules GÇô Turns off the mini map, turns off IFF (identify friend foe) indicators, cuts mic communication, prevents calling in of vehicles or strikes

I think 5 percent per level is a bit high, maybe 1-2 percent since it is a high slot suit and would be able to stack scan precision modules a d see through walls...

If you start messing with voice chat people will just move to out of game voice clients.

I think 5 percent per level is a bit high, maybe 1-2 percent since it is a high slot suit and would be able to stack scan precision modules a d see through walls...

Why would a minmatar scout trade a 25% bonus they already have for 10%?