And now I'll ask my Scoutly brothers to come in and fill in the rest of the explanation as I'm exhausted and need to sleep.

Appia supports and endorses the removal of Gallente Dampening and Caldari Range bonus. Instead Appia supports Caldari bonus being 4% per level to the efficacy of Precision Enhancers and Gallente having a 3% bonus per level to efficacy of Range Amplifiers

does efficiency mean like precison mods will be giving like 40% at complex on a cal scout??

And you've found the difference between "to base value" and "to efficacy "

How would this change anything, I ask this from the perspective of a Cal-Scout, You know I have a proto Cal-Scout and I've had the scanning mods all at level 5 for all of uprising and the majority of Open Beta. It would be literally the exact same module-to module as before hotfix alpha. Only Gallente would be getting a "nerf" by being brought on to the same scanning level as Amarr and Minmatar.

As as Cal Scout you would run you suit exactly the same way you did 2 weeks ago.

the problem is 3 precision enhancers is needed to catch 1 damped scouts. a scout can hide with little effect, and it takes a cal scout heavily investing to catch lightly damped scouts.

I'm joking, but not in the way you think. I mean, like, have someone good enough that doesn't need the HP mods to kill most suits. I jokingly meant that that wasn't you.
You run for (A) to see people coming to make up for your lack of visual or tactical awareness, (B) you make a singular sacrifice to make one or more individuals to use dampeners and reduce their combat effectiveness.

If you run 4 precision enhancers, which are all of your high slots. And I run 3 dampeners, which are all of my low lots. . . you're still the better scouts because you can put armor, repair mods, codebreakers, range amplifiers, dampeners.

You use scanners to either, (A) protect you and your squad from ambushes and surprise flanking maneuvers and (B) force multiple people to sacrifice utility or survivability just to use basic tactics such as staying out of Line of Sight.

If I, as a minja have to run all my lows as complex damps just to be as low profile as possible, why shouldn't a cal have to make near if not the same sacrifice to pick me up on his scans?

Your "what if" puts us in the same spot we are in post Alpha - only the basic damp gets you under 1 complex module. Min Scouts aren't the fastest or best hackers because they don't have the option of "3 damps or 2 damps + cloak" with the latter letting them use codebreaker or biotic module

Good job forum warriors

Keep this up and I might actually skill into a scout class soon

How, if at all, would this 'deadlock' be effected by the reallocation of codebreakers to high slots?

Part of what it looks like we're running into is a problem with absolute "yes/no" scanning results but since that is quite possibly fundamental to current engine mechanics what can we do to work around it and create an environment which at least mitigates those absolute results.

Thoughts? (or is my very premise somehow flawed? )

~Cross