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Cal at adv and Proto would need to use both lows for dampeners, which I hope you can agree is a significant disadvantage.
Min at advice would need to use both it lows, and at Proto would need to use 2/3 slot for dampeners. While this leaves one slot open it means the Min would lack stamina (ability to flank, stalk, close the gap, NK, flee) or speed (close the gap to NK or escape). Again, a significant disadvantage because it would lack one or the other. Sure, Min base speed is nice and cloaks will help but NK range is so small that speed and stamina are essential.

The cal bonus fits with its role, no one complains about its niche role or its ability to adapt to other roles (it cannot). Min scouts are even a smaller niche with way more significant problems. PG concerns at adv suit, the one low slot to play with, the NK requiring very close range to hit and even then hit detection isn't great. Its difficult to have a class choose not only your weapon (its a sidearm and frankly why wouldn't you RE someone if you're that close) and provide a hacking bonus which isn't as useful as the other racial bonuses in its class, is hacking useful, can be extremely useful but it's not some essential bonus that makes the class more than a niche. If you choose not to use a NK because their are less effective than other weapons, it further diminishes the class' comparison to the other scouts. The min scout is a niche in a niche market, few take it seriously enough to bother to compare it to other scouts.

Amarr, like Gal, have 2-4 providing the ability to have stealth. Stamina, speed, and ability to choose to replace one slot with what their racial bonus gives. In the case of the Gal they may choose to use a kin cat or armor to help their build while the Amarr may choose a Dampener or armor mods to help. There is very little difference at the advanced tier between these suits, but at prototype this is different. At Proto the Amarr suit, which doesn't have a niche in stealth can choose to use a second Dampener to play a stealth role. If a Gal scout chooses to use a cardiac and chooses a complex card, then the suit comparison favours the Gal. It's not like the Gal blows the Amarr out of the water but there is a difference now thst their major difference and advantages has been made up by using a complex cardiac on a Gal prototype suit.

This is not to say that the Amare is built for stealth, it's not to say the Amarr suit can't be stealthy. You are simply trying to compare one suit to another suits niche and come to a conclusion that is over hyped and dishonest.

A stamina bonus is a good racial bonus, a 2-4 layout is optimal and the Amarr suit is so versatile. It does a better job at the other niches than other scouts.. It does a good job at the stealth game you seem to eagerly to compare it to the gal. It might not get to an objective before a LAV but no scout does. Stamina is essential part of a scout movement so complaining daily that stamina sucks is ridiculous.

With the Amarr scout I envision being able to run from home point to enemy home point while cloaked

If not I'll be screaming for a respec

Stamina is huge to me. I hate not having a cardiac regulator on my fits.

For my particular situation what matters to me is down-time. Time spent regenerating stamina v.s. running. Within that 120 seconds of time covering distance (for example), how much time am I actually forced to walk v.s. run in each suit?

What I want is minimal down-time per battle. I run all the time! To get places, to flank, to get from hiding to an objective to stop a hack, to evade someone about to spot me, to get to cover, etc... in fact the only time I'm not running is when I'm strafing or regenerating. What I'd like is the Amarr to excel at this - they should be better it than any other suit given the same number of cardiac regulators equipped.

If not, that's bunk, but I can't really tell from your charts if that's gonna be the case. The min have better regen by far, but since this is really a problem of total stamina pool and regen time, really the best bet it seems like to me would be to gen up some down-time metric based on straight running or a mix of a certain number of jumps, this, in addition to your other charts may help folks really see the weakness.

The regen downtime on minmatar is absolutely tiny - as soon as the amarr runs out of stamina, its regen downtime is massive. That is the one thing that makes minmatar so much better over every distance in every situation - because they got given an insane and totally un-requested regen buff.

Magnus, could you explain your methodology for the graphs? What I need to do my own analysis is:
1. Sprint Speed. I can't find it for Amarillo scout
2. Sprint duration in either meters or seconds
3. Regen time in seconds. I think I have that.
4. Normal movement speed. I have that for all scouts.

The regen downtime on minmatar is absolutely tiny - as soon as the amarr runs out of stamina, its regen downtime is massive. That is the one thing that makes minmatar so much better over every distance in every situation - because they got given an insane and totally un-requested regen buff.

This is true but it's not quite what I'm getting at. For any one downtime increment sure the minmatar wins, but I'm more concerned with total downtime over the course of minutes. If the amarr has less downtime cycles due to greater stamina pool, this would benefit my playstyle more. I hate not sprinting. If it has less downtime cycles, but more greater downtime due to slower recharge this may be a wash or push the balance to minmatar.... there are a few ways this could go, really and there could be some point where one suit surpasses the other in a given scenario.

I think this extra bit of data would help shed some additional light on the subject.