Here's the difference, and what you fail to understand simpleton.

Militia Sniper Rifle vs. Militia Drop Suit (MINIMUM 2 body shots for a kill / 1 head shot for a kill)

Prototype Sniper Rifle vs. Prototype Drop Suit (MINIMUM 3 body shots for a kill / 1-2 head shots for a kill)

*excluding heavies*

In their own tier.. Militia Sniper Rifle > Prototype

Balancing the Sniper Rifle might increase the percentage of one hit kills of a prototype sniper vs maybe a standard/militia drop suit. That's not what matters at all though. They're prepared to die a lot. A cheap suit provides low risk of isk loss, so death is their reward.The people running those suits generally don't matter to the out come of a match. Anyone with a combat rifle / rail rifle with a prototype drop suit could attest. They serve one purpose and that's to increase that little number next to your deaths at the end of a match. It's not even generally required that you aim to kill these people. (the miracle of hip fire)

Headshots. Yes.

Attack Drop Ships / Militia Heavy in a Viper are pretty hard counters to take down stationary non contributing red line snipers.

And I'll say I again, RISK vs REWARD

btw heavies are not supposed to get ONE shot by snipers

I really sucks to get one shot killed from someone 400m risking absolutely nothing...

[ im fighting another enemy, and weaken him, snipers picks him off. i.e. 2 in the same area im fighting an enemy he weakens me, snipers shoots the weakned guy behind him, instead of helping me.. i die.i

Nobody expects to OHK fatties...

Charge Sniper damage is pretty high already, I suspect a lot of you can't aim.

And buffing the Thale's is a pretty stupid idea.

If anything, a suitable buff would be to damage over the standard variant Sniper Rifle. And maybe the ability to toggle zoom?

Map design could be better, with the redline removed and areas redesigned to implement a wider variety of sniper spots. Though I think these sniper spots should not have direct overwatch of the null cannon hacking terminal, rather the wider area around it.

snipers should never 1 shot heavy or medium suit tanker.

Are you saying I'm OP? Because I do.

Remove the redline and I'll talk.

You would think people are smart enough to pick up a sniper themself and kill us glass cannons but they continue to run around.

Thales headshots don't count!

Countersniping is easy, so they do risk something. As a sniper, that's where you find and get your easiest kills.

I think you snipers deserve your buff IF you were to lose the ability to shoot from ~600m.

the majority of all kills from a lot closer than that.

Here's the difference, and what you fail to understand simpleton.

Militia Sniper Rifle vs. Militia Drop Suit (MINIMUM 2 body shots for a kill / 1 head shot for a kill)

Prototype Sniper Rifle vs. Prototype Drop Suit (MINIMUM 3 body shots for a kill / 1-2 head shots for a kill)

*excluding heavies*

In their own tier.. Militia Sniper Rifle > Prototype

Balancing the Sniper Rifle might increase the percentage of one hit kills of a prototype sniper vs maybe a standard/militia drop suit. That's not what matters at all though. They're prepared to die a lot. A cheap suit provides low risk of isk loss, so death is their reward.The people running those suits generally don't matter to the out come of a match. Anyone with a combat rifle / rail rifle with a prototype drop suit could attest. They serve one purpose and that's to increase that little number next to your deaths at the end of a match. It's not even generally required that you aim to kill these people. (the miracle of hip fire)

Dude, I haven't sniped enough to get officer weapons as salvage, let alone Thales.

I used a tactical on a weakened heavy.

I think you snipers deserve your buff IF you were to lose the ability to shoot from ~600m.

So you admit its ALREADY an OHK for militia vs militia or proto vs proto but you think that's not enough? Im talking about headshots, of course. I think youre a good player so that shouldnt be a problem for you.

Headshot an OHK? Yeah, right! Besides, you talk like every shot is a headshot. Headshots are very difficult, because of bad rendering, moving targets (no problem with that!) and false 'red reticules'.