You can gain the benefits of signature tanking + moderate brick tanking or you can purely brick tank.

Its that people aren't willing to signature tank at all, which is more the fault of the medium frames not wanting to give up anything, it takes two low costing modules to beat all but one active scanner, and for the suits with the most slots in the game to complain of using a module or two is amusing.

If we get rid of the spinning mechanic and make it more directional, maybe even reduce the angel even more, this would severely limit the active scanner's utility, I have a feeling that we are just going to compile a huge list of debuffs for the scanner and apply them all at once when only a couple were needed.

Ehhhh CCP has said many many times that people can make any suit into anything the user wants it to be within limitations. You people get FARRRRRRRR to hung up on the names of these damn things. "OMG its a scout suit so it should be the only suit that can fulfill this this and this role/trait"........ NO. This isn't BF3 dude...... I want a stealthy assault suit, I should be allowed to have it. And with the proper SP investment, I CAN. If I want a speed heavy suit I should be allowed to have it. And with the proper SP investment I CAN. If you want a super ninja suit, then just run Active scanner ontop of your scouts passive dampening ability. You'll literally never be spotted again.

This game is a sandbox man, and the whole fitting system encourages people to do whatever they want to whatever they want. Stop getting hung up on the fact that your suit is called a "scout suit" and actually think about what you can do to make your suit more fun to play with.

Alright? So? What does that mean for the assault then? Hes giving up either PG/CPU upgrades, or two armor plates (which is a tremendous amount of HP), or some combination of repper/plate/biotic mod. You have to realize that by taking those two spaces the assault may be impervious to most scanners, but its much more flimsy as a suit in general, and the survivability of that suit is totally dependent on the fact that most people wont see him pop up on radar. But its not like those modules stop him from being seen in person. Which is what im trying to say man. Its simple cause and effect. Sure he might have the stealth of a scout suit, but he trades HP away for it, and isn't nearly as mobile either.

deployable active dampeners would be a solid inclusion to the game

Personally I think deployable jammers are a bad idea, and despite all the threads made about them, CCP has never once mentioned them on their weekly feedback/suggestion updates. This leads me to believe they won't go in that direction.

However, in case they do, I'll have around 932k in unallocated rainy day SP saved up, just so I can be the first to spam and abuse the hell out of them.

I decided last night that I wanted to run Shotgun.
I have 2 Enhanced dampeners on my fit. that's 40% reduction, plus proficiency 3 (another 9%). My profile is cut in half and wouldn't you know it... I was picked up by scanners still.

The scanner will ALWAYS be OP, because it gives you location and heading. If the solution lies with sacraficing HP and rep, even for Scouts, then it's not a very balanced weapon.

It's also OP, because it's unearned basically. It's cheap, low SP to use, low CPU/PG, simple to use for what advantage it gives, etc.

Why should someone have to invest more SP and ISK into a counter? How is that balanced? Its no different than a 45,000ISK Swarm can destroy a 500,000ISK HAV...

*ahem... 4 low-slots