So , lets keep making Dust interesting!
The game is better than ever ( its IMO the best patch since Chromosome) and we need to keep improving it.
Now, Scouts are kings of dampening and other E-war related perks and we CAN be pretty hard to find at times unless you use a Gallente Logistics with a powerful active scanner or the almighty Caldari Scout.

Im an old time MAG player also known as AceOfJokers666 back in my time... For those who didnt play MAG, it was a VERY well thought and balanced ( for the most part, im watching you SVER weapons) and i think there is an idea we can all agree it would be UBER cool and give this game more depth:

Acoustic locator:
When an enemy fires a weapon, he becomes RADAR visible for a few seconds , REGARDLESS of their Profile dampening,cloak,etc...

For example:
GÖª STD Acoustic locator: Range 25mts. Duration 2 secs.
GÖª ADV Acoustic locator: Range 35mts.Duration 3 secs
GÖª PROTO Acoustic locator: Range 43mts .Duration 4-+ secs

This way even if your enemy possesses the now dreaded shotgun + cloak combo, if he shoots you will be able to track him for a few seconds based on SOUND alone.

Now OF COURSE, everything has a weakness:

Silencer:
A new ''type'' of weapon that have slightly reduced performance and slightly increased ISK cost , but comes with a Noise reducing silencer.

Now the silencer could work like this:
GÖª Silenced STD weapon: When fired , the silencer will not make you 100% invisible, But will However reduce the time in enemies radar with Acoustic locators by 1 sec.
GÖª Silenced ADV Weapon: When fired will not make you 100% invisible to Acoustic locator users, but will however reduce the time in their radars by 2 seconds ( effectively being 100% invisible to STD A.Locators)
GÖª Silenced PROTO weapon: Same as before, but reduces the time by 3 seconds, this makes the STD and ADV Acoustic locators useless and the Proto A.locator will illuminate you for a mere second....Enough to know the general location of a red dot, but not being able to be pinpointed.

Weapons WITH Silencer Option :
Sidearms: All but Flaylock Pistol
Light Weapons: Assault Rifles (heh there: i now balanced ALL rifles too, YW) Sniper Rifles
Heavy:: none.

It would work , something like this (numbers might be off, i dont really recall them perfectly,but the idea is there):
SMG - 21 damage 50.4 accuracy / 15CPU 15 PG
SIL SMG - 20.5 damage 50 accuracy / 18 CPU 4 PG

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ADV SMG - 22.5 dam 52.30 acc / 35CPU 6PG
ADV SIL SMG - 21.8 dam 52 acc / 42 CPU 8 PG

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PRO SMG - 23.1 dam 51.8 acc / 57 CPU - 10 PG
PRO SIL SMG 22.8 dam 51 acc / 65 CPU - 12 PG

Of course, there can be: Breach and Assault Silenced versions too, with the correct stat reduction and fitting requirements increase that comes with the silencer.
Assault rifles DO NOT HAVE STATUS Penalty and Silenced Assault rifles ONLY have increased Fitting requirements.
Sniper rifles O NOT HAVE DAMAGE NOR ACCURACY penalty,but rather a slight RoF one and increased Fitting requirements.

my 2 cents
You are welcome to flame me, discuss, give your opinion, whatever.

Good dayto you.

You should change the word silencer to suppressor. Sounds way cooler. Seriously though, Is weapon customization in the works for the future of Dust?

So an equipment that just works like an extra module. Seems cool enough...