Ok, so I get that you want more people to use nova knives. but shouldn't Caldari get the bonus to nova knives? Considering, you know... they are a caldari weapon?

At any rate, The hack speed is great. I'm glad to see Minmatar keep that. However, All the other scout suits have non-gear-reliant bonuses that are almost always useful.

Minmatar scouts have one decent bonus that is useless in ambush, and another that is completely useless unless you plan on running around with a caldari weapon?!

I'd like a bonus to Biotic efficacy over just a bonus to caldari scum weapons! >_< (but seriously, I'm trying extremely hard to not use anything but Minmatar dropsuits/weapons)

Actually, now that I think of it, I think "5% bonus to hacking speed and biotic upgrade efficacy per level" would be FAR preferable to nova knives/melee.

Or perhaps instead of efficacy, at least some kind of decrease to the CPU/PG usage of biotics?

However, in case that is too OP, which it could be (KinCats are powerful as is...!) Then why not something more... subtle, but still useful in all matches. Like 5% bonus to stamina recharge rate per level, just... something other than pidgeon-holing one race into melee, when that is easily the least-preferred method of killing.

Please, rethink the Minmatar scout secondary bonus. Again, the hack speed is great, please don't mess with that. I'm thinking of speccing into a scout, but if the minmatar scout remains the least desirable/most specialized scout, then I don't think it's doing minmatar justice. Furthermore, for those who wish to knife with the suit, there are biotic upgrades for that... so if we get biotic upgrade efficacy, then the minmatar scout suit would still be the #1 suit for you! but it would also be fine if you just wanted to be an uber-fast "get there first and hack" kind of player!

Thoughts/suggestions/CCP response? <3

Ok, so I get that you want more people to use nova knives. but shouldn't Caldari get the bonus to nova knives? Considering, you know... they are a caldari weapon?

You could say the same thing about the current heavies, where both available heavy weapons are not Amarr.

They will rework the bonus once the racial variant is implemented.

I would indeed support the notion of the NK bonus being applied towards the Caldari instead, but only after we receive the remaining racial variants such as the Amarr sword, Gallente hook knife, and Minmatar Prison Shiv. Even then, each racial scout should have a bonus to the racial knife involved.