Kinda seems like this post is asking for a buff to sniper rifles. If that is the case then, no. Sniping is very easy in this game.. no bullet drop, crosshairs turn red when you are on your target, minimal foliage or terrain for people to hide behind (lots of wide open spaces) pretty much every map is a bowl with elevated positions all over the place, etc etc etc. Just... no.

I'll repeat myself:
The issue with sniper rifles is how they are balanced against suit tiers; it's rather easy to OHK a person in militia/standard gear while still being little more than a nuisance to a proto/heavy suit. In essence, we're forced to feed on the weakest players while being little more than annoyances to the proto crowd.

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure of what can be done to remedy the situation. I'll take a sniping position if I'm able to cover at least one node from a position of relative safety (i.e. redline or edge of the map) but asking me to get closer to the battle...that's hard to do when I'm restricted to a sidearm as my only means of self-defense, seeing as to how the game doesn't enable you to hip-fire the SR with any idea of where you're actually shooting. Give me something--even if it's a reticule the size of the HMG's--to at least give me an estimation of where my shot might go.