The best solution for snipers is to remove the sniper rifle from the game.

Currently 99% of snipers are red line campers who do nothing to support the success of their team of the battle field. The end result of all this sniping is battles that feel empty with teams that are too small (snipers not actually functioning as part of them afterall) to hold or capture points on the battlefield.

Removing snipers would force all those red line players to get much closer to the action which would not only include them in Dust's risk reward mechanic but also force them to support their team inorder to be successful. In this context I am generalizing the word successful to mean both individually and as a team.

CCP would be the "brave developers" who actually got rid fo the useless non-team based sniping mechanic if they did this. The snipers who are team players would easily adapt and join in on the matches with the rest of us. The other snipers would get all their SP refunded and could donate their tears to my breakfast cup.

I wasn't thinking for the benefit of me finding snipers. I was trying to think of a fix that might inspire snipers to go provide more area denial and less free kills. That would be best accomplished by giving players some manner of warning a sniper was targeting them (similar to vehicle lockon warnings).

Also, magic space lasers work at any range. ;)

The point I am making with my earlier comment is entirely retorical and meant to point out some major issues with the way sniping is implemented in the game.

Yes, there are other useless players. Sure, any class can be totally ineffective at helping a team. Of course, there are some snipers that actually do help a team win.

The issue that I am trying to point out, and this is what only one of you seemed to grasp, is that as it stands sniping is the only class of infantry (lets not get started on tanks) who's entire role on the battle field can be preformed adequately while still doing nothing to support the team. Now this is partially CCP's fault in that they have defined the role of the sniper far too narrowly by rewarding them only for killing which is by far the least useful thing that a sniper can do. CCP needs to rebuild the reward mechanic to allow snipers to get points for identifying targets for their team, suppressing targets, and other similar activities.

Additionally the risk reward mechanic needs to be altered. We see more officers sniper rifles on the field than any other officer weapon. This is because there are rewards for sniping that far outway the risks. In fact, for a redline sniper there are almost no risks involved, relative to the risks other infantry take on. If there are no rewards we are going to end up in games with 6 snipers which, while one poster here has identified as beneficial, is typically hugely detrimental to their team. Snipers need to be at more risk to decrease their numbers thus increasing the number of people actually playing in a battle. These changes should affect all people sitting in the redline not just snipers (thus eliminating your redline AR guy issue). A timer that results in clone death if in the redline for too long with be a simple solution to this problem.