What scout would willingly sacrifice THAT MUCH SPEED for HP? Any REAL scout will tell you that our HP is the last thing we look at when trying to make our fits.

2 C-Hives!? What? Are you nuts!? The only scouts that would do something like that are the snipers. The majority of scouts rock RE, Scans, or uplinks so chances are there will be a lot more espionage going on (so much easier to plant RE on tanks when nobody can see you coming). I already enjoy going behind enemy lines and hacking all there stuff right from under there noses so this is gonna make that SOOOOO MUCH EASIER!

If someone wants to be a slayer scout let them. The suit is light and fast, and nigh undetectable. That is its strength. If I were to imagine a 'Slayer Scout' it would be more of a scout dodging around the edge of a battlefield, using his low profile and boosted scan range to dodge around his foes popping into sight from time to time to use alpha damage to wittle down heavies or surprise assaults. Its very tense and exciting.

But sacrificing maneuverability to take a couple of hits in a stand-up fight? Doesn't sound very 'Slayer' if your using a scout suitGǪ

To OP: I understand where you are coming from. And it is important to keep in perspective the 'alternative' uses for slots. But the reality is the Proto Gal suit has always had the ability to run load 4 proto plates and run around faster then an assault ... I used to do it all the time, but I still was chewed up by assaults.

The bottom line is that CCP is defining clear paths for us to take advantage of. If ppl use the suit for other edge case scenarios thats fine, but specing a scout suit to play as a second rate assault will always be just that ... a second rate fit.

Scouts will be fine.

As someone stated earlier, a suit's bonus is the intended use, not the way a player will use it. Usually, this results in some terribad stuff.

For example: I can have a Megathron (Bonus to Large Blasters Damage & Tracking Speed). I can put Medium Blasters on that Megathron. That's a terrible idea. It might work. But I'm not maximizing the ship's potential, and will sacrifice an entire bonus to have it.

As a Scout, they're going to have a bonus for the Cloaking. This is what's going to happen. People are going to skill into their "Slayer Scout" as you called it, and you know what they're doing? They're giving up a strength in exchange for another strength. And the other strength isn't free. The OTHER strength costs most ISK (4 Complex Plates > 1 Standard Cloak), costs more CPU (4 Complex Plates > 1 Standard Cloak), and costs more SP (Complex Plates > Standard Cloak).

In reality, this entire thing you've built is dumb. I'm sure people going to use the G-Scout WELL, yea, but the downsides outweigh the benefits. They'd be giving up speed, the potential to be invisible, the potential to use better equipment, etc., and all in exchange for the stats of a fully-ADV Gallente Assault suit.

As for your earlier comment about "Why are we crying about the Slayer Logi?", the "Slayers" have MUCH higher CPU/PG, MUCH more slots, and a MUCH more combat-oriented bonus. That's why we're crying about the Slayer Logis.

To everyone reading this and thinking "I can't wait to become a Slayer Scout"... Stop being idiotic. OP's logic is faulty. Realistically, you'd be sacrificing more than you'd be gaining. You'll go 5 into G-Scout, 5 into Armor Plates, 5 into Damage Mods, 5 into Cloaking, 5 in to REs, and 5 into Rail Rifles and you'll suddenly realize that the most useful thing you skilled into was the Rail Rifle, because every other thing suddenly doesn't matter if you got those things to create a role that has not and will not exist.

P.S.: Apparently you weren't here for Beta, OP. The 1.8 Scout is basically the Type-II Scout, but with a Sidearm this time.

/rant over

You may continue drooling to your idea of an OP scout.

That's another thing, by the way, after all the sh*t they've been getting, they deserve to be OP, just for a single patch. I don't think you understand how fast a Scout dies. I've literally been dropped in a single shot before. From a Rail Rifle.