Actually I like the min Med suits. They are faster, have more CPU/PG (at least compared to gal/cal) the slot layout ist quite interesting although I would expect this rather on a cal suit.

I only use the advanced basic min medium suit and I like it. The bonus on the assault is also more usefull than most of the other assault bonusses as long as you like sidearms...

I would rate it the second best overall assault suit after the Amarr one.

All my mk.0 fits need to have CPU and/or PG boosts in the lows just so I can have decent sidearms, nades and equipment and still tank shields. But like you said, it's all pretty irrelevant in game.

Not even sure why it even has the passive +1 armor regen. Seems more like something the Gallente should have.

At face value the suit may seem to have more pg/cpu but keep in mind the gk.0 bonus (5% reduction to hybrid weapon fitting is very beneficial) and the ck.0 bonus is huge to an already large base shield (+2% to efficacy of shield extenders). When the ck.o starts at 210 base, the mk.0 starts at 150 base, you basically get a free shield extender out the gate compared to mk.0, yes we have increased base cpu, but it doesn't matter when you are fitting shield extenders at 54cpu and 11pg for 66hp each. Compare that to complex armor and the fitting reqs aren't even close. So I completely disagree with you that the cpu/pg is 'beneficial' to begin with.
The assault bonus is beneficial but the suit is cannot fit enough EHP for a sidearm to really make it viable in CQC. With 300-400 max ehp what good is a sidearm against an armor tanked gk.o with a RR?

I would like the same slot layout of a ck.0, i don't understand why 2 different suit can't have the same slot layout.
5 modules on a side are viable only for logis, they have cpu/pg to sustain them.

Honestly even my advanced min med suit has more ehp...the only thing with this suit is it plays different from the other assault suits. It plays more like a scout. Remember you have nearly the speed of a gal scout with more base ehp, more cpu/pg and more slots. Use this to your advantage you dont have to dual tank any suit in this game. The min assault is a classical skirmishing suit get in fast do a lot of damage and get out fast, or flank the enemy...

Regarding the gal assault bonus, yes it is nice but you are limited to hybrid weapons like assault rifle or Rail rifle, the caldari bonus is nice but not that great.

You have to consider that currently only two assault suits et a bonus that somehow can boost your dps that the mn assault (less reloading = slightly higher dps) and the amarr.

scouts are meant to be soft

what u need is a shot gun a couple damage mods and a couple on dampener modules and a scanner

you wont be seen by dropsuit profiles and scanners plus do max damage
you can see where enemies are coming from with your scanner
if you can add a toxin sub machine gun to it and u will be laughing

scouts are designed to be under the radar and do surprise attacks and very fast


its bad enough logis are some what OP atm we don't need scouts turning out like a slightly weaker version of the assault suit

Storm, SOB! We are talking about the Minmatar Assault suit!

All my mk.0 fits need to have CPU and/or PG boosts in the lows just so I can have decent sidearms, nades and equipment and still tank shields. But like you said, it's all pretty irrelevant in game.

Not even sure why it even has the passive +1 armor regen. Seems more like something the Gallente should have.

the mimnatar are hybrid tankers with focus on speed
the +1hp/s is just to account for lack of low slots

Go see Regnyum, he/she (I honestly don't know cause I've never heard the persons voice but guessing by behaviour I'd say Regnyum is a dude) runs assault mk0 and kicks some serious booty......although I think he only plays FPS so he's just a ninja at FPS games no matter his gear....