Hmmm I wonder if the change to the damage profile would really matter that much. Considering the idea is to kill the enemy in a single shot, that means you need to deplete their armor and shields at the same time. Since its a -10% to shields and a +10% to armor, and the enemy has say 100 shields and 100 armor for a total of 200HP, your shot will do 90 and 110 to shields and armor respectfully, for a total of 200. So really the damage profile only comes into play for the difference in armor vs shield HP.

That being said, suits base stats are typically somewhat normalized, and all suits have a fair amount of armor and shields, despite tanking type, with the Amarr being the biggest outlyer. So essentially the difference in armor vs shields is quite a bit smaller than the HP total. Also, because armor tends to have more HP that shields, by normalizing the damage, you gain a much smaller amount of Shield HP damage than you lose Armor HP damage.

So by normalizing, you'll do a little bit more to shields, but a lot less to armor, and since you need to cut through both armor and shields on all suits, in most cases making it 0%/0%, you're actually nerfing the damage overall.

HURR DURRR JUST GET RID OF SNIPERS ALL TOGETHER!!1!

THEY ANNOY ME CUZ I CAN'T MOW THEM DOWN WITH MY AR/CR/ScR WHILE I RAMBO AROUND LIKE A CHICKEN WITH IT'S HEAD CUT OFF, NEVER TAKING COVER OR HAVING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS!!

MAKE IT SO THEY CAN'T BE ON ROOFS EITHER, CUZ THEN THEY'LL JUST SNIPE AT GROUND LEVEL IN THE OPEN WHERE ANYONE CAN JUST RUN UP ON THEM, INSTEAD OF GOING INTO THE REDLINE, RIGHT?!?

HURR DURRR JUST GET RID OF SNIPERS ALL TOGETHER!!1!

THEY ANNOY ME CUZ I CAN'T MOW THEM DOWN WITH MY AR/CR/ScR WHILE I RAMBO AROUND LIKE A CHICKEN WITH IT'S HEAD CUT OFF, NEVER TAKING COVER OR HAVING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS!!

MAKE IT SO THEY CAN'T BE ON ROOFS EITHER, CUZ THEN THEY'LL JUST SNIPE AT GROUND LEVEL IN THE OPEN WHERE ANYONE CAN JUST RUN UP ON THEM, INSTEAD OF GOING INTO THE REDLINE, RIGHT?!?

Let me toss together a quickie spreadsheet for say the sentinels so we can compare damage needed to kill with the -10/+10 and the 0/0. You may be right, but that was the first thought that came to mind.

EDIT: Ok this is going off of the proposed Hotfix Charlie changes to the Sentinels. Assumed all skills are level 5.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k0gt-4cnyOKQnIzLHkcBc6QBgvJhqlBUksjMc9jWZEM/edit?usp=sharing

So in green you see where your proposed change would require you to do less damage than you currently do, red being more damage. Not only will you need to do more damage in general, when do you do need to do less, its a lesser change than the increase in needed damage against armored units.

So essentially in general assuming an even distribution of suit and taking types, you're actually going to see an overall nerf to damage. Note that I didn't take the sentinel's resistances into account since I didn't want that to skew your perception of how this change would affect other suits, I just picked heavies since their high HP pool would show the differences the most.

they will just redline if they cant roof camp ;p

TheEnd762 is exactly what's wrong with the DUST 514 playerbase.

Shorten sniper range to 400m, get rid of sway & crouching requirements, allow for reasonable (but relatively inaccurate) hipfire.

Snipers want to be able to kill people, but never get shot at which is problematic, you should be out on the field and able to fight on the field.

Shortening the range of snipers is not the idea...snipers should be able to shoot anywhere on the map to anywhere on map...redline snipers need to be properly rendered and counter sniped it's that simple. Anyone calling for a range reduction does not understand how a sniper works as a force multiplier.

Read this to understand snipers