Because it exceeds the range of Forge Guns.

When you kill someone, there's no kill cam but you still have a range indication. They can create a radius from point of death and figure out where you were. The greater the range the longer it'll take to find you and the more time you have to change position or prepare for an ADS or DS with gunner.

Not every map provides good sniping spots that are within 120m of the action. At that range you could almost use a Rail Rifle.

At 120 meters? No sir it wouldnt. Youd barely be doing 30%. Look at the bottom of your screen when on tatget. HUD displays distance from target as, well as how much damage you are doing at that distance to that suit., Which would change based on suit type, and shields vs armor efficacy characteristics.

I'm surprised my name came up in this thread because I haven't sniped seriously for awhile. Well, I decided to try out the new sights for a couple of matches and even though I wrecked face from cqc, just outside rail rifle range, and farther, I must say Symbiotic is correct.

While the new sights seemed to be a good idea it is severely hampered by the lack of zoom fidelity. From about 200 meters out and further it is increasingly difficult to line up that head shot due to the size of the target at that range and the fact that half their body is encompassed by the sights. It's guess work really... The only way I've found to counter having to guess for the most part is taking the shot when the shot efficiency reads 175%, but this way is grossly inefficient against moving targets.

If ccp isn't going to do anything about the redline, the damage output of the SR, or undoing the sight change, then at least increase the zoom fidelity of all sniper rifles to that of the tactical sniper rifle. How does one take precise shots with a "precision" weapon that lacks the precision needed to take precise shots?

Here's an idea, make one of the scouts have a race bonus for zoom fidelity and lower the zoom fidelity for non-scouts, kinda like what you did with decreasing the damage mods which in turn nerfed the sniper efficiency and then gave the damage buff to the cal commando. This then would make the sniper on a scout suit more precise than any other suit and keep them easily counterable, instead of having a scrub with a thales sitting in the redline with almost 1000ehp and some ammo and triage hives, with the only counter being an ADS, wasting an orbital, or another thales. What happened to the idea of snipers being glass cannons and not simply an additional turret in the redline?

Yes, my choice would be the cal scout, but if I had to choose another I'd go with the minny scout and here's why:

Since the min scout already has the bonus to nova knives, which are suppose to be a caldari weapon, not to mention the min commando racial bonus applies to the swarm launcher, the sniper bonus could be applied to the minny scout. Perhaps not the same bonus, but maybe an increase in clip size and, either an increase in rof or a decrease recoil, which would be a bonus geared more towards the tactical sniper rifle. All of this is assuming we want to keep everything "uniform."

Amarr - range
Cal - precision and dampening
Gal - range and dampening
Min - kn and hacking