People can retaliate now - see my first post in this thread, #29 for your reference.

Wanna know what I think is the lowest risk thing you can do?

Run a 1500+ eHP suit with a 700+ DPS weapon that never runs out of ammo (equipment spam) and receives constant armor repair (from the three armor repping nanohives that serve for the few seconds every now and then when your logi with the PRO rep tool gets killed - you know the one, that PRO logi with enough HP to tank 2+ rounds from a Charge SR?). I don't know how those guys sleep at night, all that risk, I'd have PTSD if I played like that. It's gotta be so horrible going 50/0 and collecting 500k+ ISK payouts every match!

Boy, those snipers going 15/1, 20/3 and the like, collecting their 180-250k ISK payouts, they sure have so much reward by comparison.

The only time a sniper goes without deaths is when they're not showing up in the killfeed enough to make anyone care about neutralizing them.

Your bias is always shocking.

They are changing their weapon profile and the reason the Minny are most likely getting the ehp buff is because the speed difference is near pointless. Gallente have more low slots and PG so were already able to run the same speed or faster with more health.

On the projectile damage profile:

was -5, 5 considered or -10, 15 keeping the unbalance but reducing some of their efficiency vs shields.

We spend two years in severely UP suits and now that we're approaching some kind of parity you're asking for a nerf before the buff even happens. Even with the buff the minnies will still be the squishiest of the suits.

Why don't we gather some data on the proposed delta changes before we mutilate the core of their playstyle?

The reality is Minmitar has been hard mode all the way through and peeps running Minmitar have had to learn the hard way how to fight/survive.

TL:DR It's too soon for pre-buff pre-nerfs to Minmatar.

Sure, if you give them the same eHP

I heard a slight hp buff.. Not putting them on par with the others.

With dropships in their current state, swarms are strong enough that they force you to leave. At this point I don't think anything should be done with swarms, but I think PG and CPU along with the way modules work on dropships is a huge issue for them. HAV's have a better chance than dropships. In good faith I can tell you that this weapon along with forge guns, HAV's, and installations has reduced effectiveness of all the variants of dropships. You should play as a dropship pilot and see how hard it is to escape from swarms, and even an HAV as well. That may clear up what you are not seeing from the big picture.