I think a penalty to stacking plates would be better.

i do believe the best scouts are stacking kinetic catalyzation mods.
... and i do believe that CCP announced a short time ago that they had made a mistake, in that those mods do in fact increase the strafing speed as well as sprint speed.
rather than fix it, they opted to finagle it down to a more manageable level, so that suits other than scouts could potentially benefit from the increased strafing speed.

unfortunately now, half the battlefield is comprised of scouts. of those half, probably half are using kinetic mods.
of those half, probably half are really good at executing circle and counter-strafe strategies.
(AKA regnyum style)

so, whereas there was potentially only one 'skilled' crazy fast scout on the opposing team that you could avoid in most cases pre-1.8.
now you have likely a half dozen,
so everyone is going to ***** and moan, when this has been a known problem, in a broken game, for a long time.


please correct me if i'm wrong. which i usually always am.

Oh and on your last bit: If you don't like people using the FOTM in a game: leave, go play a single player game, this is an online shooter and mercs will flock to whatever they perceive as best to win, we saw it with the TAR, the flaylock, the logis, and the MD, things improve, and things break, it's simply a part of being a new MMO.