Looking at the 4 racial variants
Minmatar is number 1 because combat rifle and movement speed
Gallente is number 2 because of its ability to armor tank and the prevalence of Chromo/early Uprising players having proto ARs
Caldari is number 3 because it is incredibly PG deficient. Caldari is the second highest PG weapons with High Slot focus when high slot modules have a higher PG requirement at well
Amarr is last because of the use of Scrambler Rifle and Laser Rifles. They are too niche for the types of players that went Commando.

The amarr commando has many many issues.

1) it is nearly as slow as the minmatar sentinel. This makes positioning for the amarr weaponry really difficult.

2) It has a choice of two weapons that it has bonuses too, these weapons overheat insanely quickly on the amarr commando. Due to overheat mechanics, and wanting to actually use the suit bonuses, the best option I have found is just to fit two scrambler rifles and really pay attention to overheating. Also, never ever use a charge shot with this suit.

3) There is no versatility here. The two amarrian light weapons fill a similar niche, and the commando has no decent AV capabilities due to having no bonused AV.

4) Fitting. The scrambler is far and away the hardest weapon to fit, yet it is the only real option for use on the amarr commando. This means that the amarr commando is going to have less fitting options while being less effective with amarr weapons than the assault, slower than the assault, easier to hit than the assault, and less versatile.

Honestly the way commandos would see to work is to allow you to fill two assault roles in one, but you sacrifice mobility and versatility to do so. This is not supported by the limited weapon selection and the high fitting requirements of amarrian light weaponry.

Oh Good, CCP has outsourced their design department to the forums. Surely this will go well.

Jesus, do you guys have so few ideas that you're hitting up the community for them now?

In short, Minmatar Commandos are by far the most commonly used currently.

Please discuss why, and come up with tweaking suggestions to make them more aligned with his brethren (that includes buffing the other three)

Dont touch my commando nobody was complaining about it.I chose it because it has good stamina and it has a bonus to the mass driver my best weapon.Just buff the other commandos im sick of nerfs.And can you guys look into the amaar logi bonus? when i switch to a different suit the droplinks i dropped as an amaar logi Lose their bonus.

I have all the commandos at 5 and to be honest, the problem is lack of weapon variety. The commandos themselves are pretty balanced to my mind, the problem is that only the min actually has two weapons to use.

Minmatar can use either a combat rifle and a mass driver or two combat rifles. The first compensates well for the commando's lack of a grenade slot gives good variety to the role. The second compensates for the combat rifles low magazine and ammo count, easily its biggest drawback.

Gallente can use two AR's but really you aren't gaining much from using them. Clips are high already and with the lowest range you're still functioning within a very limited role. Plasma cannon is pointless since its a OHK already, and the gallente is too slow to use shotgun effectively. Besides, the 10% bonus doesn't make a lot of difference in the shotgun kill time anyway.

The charge time on the Rail rifle makes stacking two of them on the Caldari Commando a pointless exercise. A sniper rifle is handy and I use this commando a lot when countersniping but overall it's a very limited role.

Amarr commando to me is the oddball of the lot. Laser rifle and Scrambler rifle have too similar ranges. Stacking them seems redundant or at the very least to make a very minor difference. Stacking dual Scrambler rifles is a better combination to my mind because it compensates for overheat, but with a scrambler rilfle you really need speed to strafe with a target and as the slowest commando, the Amarr just doesn't have that.

Can the scrambler be (simply)made a little more effective in the mid range? Other than that, we think it may course correct if shield v armor tanking becomes a little more balanced and we see more shield tankers out there.

That would risk unbalancing the Amarr Assault; it's in a pretty good place at the moment and I think a buff to the ScR would push it over the edge.
I think that increasing shield tanking viability would be a far better fix, tbh.

That would risk unbalancing the Amarr Assault; it's in a pretty good place at the moment and I think a buff to the ScR would push it over the edge.
I think that increasing shield tanking viability would be a far better fix, tbh.

Can the scrambler be (simply)made a little more effective in the mid range? Other than that, we think it may course correct if shield v armor tanking becomes a little more balanced and we see more shield tankers out there.

Couple things at work here:

Weapon Options
Minmatar Commando simply gets the best spread of weapons that make sense for mixed combat, namely the Combat Rifle and Mass Driver. They're both fairly flexible weapons that work well to cover each others weaknesses and makes the Minmatar commando extremely flexible. In addition they have two different damage types which makes it even more flexible given the target.

Gallente gets the Plasma Rifle which is pretty weak in comparison to the Combat Rifle, and their other options are Shotgun (which is not very useful due to the relatively low suit speed) or the Plasma Cannon which is well...a joke.

Amarr gets Scrambler Rifle and Laser Rifle which honestly fill similar roles as medium range weapons, so having one of each isn't particularly useful.

Caldari gets the rail rifle and sniper rifle, and while both of these weapons are long range combat, they represent totally different playstyles. I think it would be rare to find a player who wishes they could switch between sniping and long range assaulting on the fly.

In short, the weapons available to Minmatar Commando compliment each other extremely well and allow the user to fulfill a number of roles at the same time, making it the ideal platform for the flexible combat the Commando is designed for.

Similarity to Assault Suit
The Minmatar Commando is the lowest health, highest speed Heavy-Class suit in the game. This means that it is the closest to being a Medium/Assault suit out of all the Heavy suits. This paired with good reload and damage bonuses, it makes the the Minmatar Commando behave very much like a tanky, high damage Assault suit.

In my opinion, this is more how Assault suits SHOULD operate. In many ways the Assaults are the little brother to the Commando and their roles are very similar to a point of redundancy. If anything I think future Assault suits should have bonuses much like the Commando, with more speed and less health, but the damage bonuses to that race's racial weapon. Giving Assaults two light weapons and phasing out the Commando role would give Assaults a unique advantage, securing a more defined role in the battlefield.

In short, Minmatar Commandos are by far the most commonly used currently.

Please discuss why, and come up with tweaking suggestions to make them more aligned with his brethren (that includes buffing the other three)

Gall Commando w/ duvolle/shotgun=lulz
Cal Commando w rr/sniper = wtf is that
Winmatar w cbr/swarms/massdriver= more scenarios it is useful in.
Amar w scr/laser= death from afar

Thanks guys, this is been a great source of information. I guess my main take away is the swarm bonus which does make more sense as a caldari and the CR needing a tweak, and a few additional improvements.

Arkena, the current use is
Minmatar
Gallente
Caldari
Amarr

We are going to come back with a holistic view of the next patch and see if we can't fix a few things this round. I will still make a sticky and keep an eye out for additional info.

Can the scrambler be (simply)made a little more effective in the mid range? Other than that, we think it may course correct if shield v armor tanking becomes a little more balanced and we see more shield tankers out there.

So if they take the SL Bonus away, can I get a Minmatar AV Weapon?

Or a Respec?