I almost agreed until I thought about it a bit. It would almost make a scout useless. All suits of a lower profile than anothers scan abilities can hide in shadows, its just someones scout picking you up. Or someone who sacrificed something else to enhance their e-war. If there are no scouts around you can hide all you want. The main prob is a low hp scout can't seek and eliminate targets without help, which is fine and fair, but you got high hp scouts that are ultimate solo predators. Hopefully we'll figure out a fair compromise that tones down scouts a little, or penalizes the tanking and rewarding the proper use of scouts like someone mentioned in another thread

Not knowing the health of your opponents in a high TTK game is a bad idea.

You need to know how close you are to defeating that person to make the right judgement calls.
Otherwise you are just randomly shooting at the person hoping that he will drop eventually.

I've thought about this for a couple of days and wanted to submit for your perusal and consumption, comments and ridicule.

What if the red chevron above enemy merc's heads was eliminated?

Leave the blue chevron for teammates but a clone with no chevron is the enemy.

I am not suggesting changing eWar or how the TacNet looks or operates. Players on the radar still show up and look as they always have, just no red chevron over the head on the battlefield.

This would eliminate chevrons showing up through walls. Non scouts might like this.

Many matches employ mood lighting (darker maps) and this proposal would facilitate interesting tactical opportunities to be taken advantage of. It also makes it more difficult to track someone with your cross hairs on darker maps, thereby increasing TTK.

As it is, I can see enemy combatants from great distances simply because the red chevron gives away their position. With no chevron I might not notice them, especially if they were not moving.

On dark maps, sometimes all I can see in very dark areas is the chevron so that's what I shoot at. How much more dynamic would game play be if that was removed?

Lack of a blue chevron identifies you as the enemy and allows for the use of stealth and shadows, cover etc creating a more realistic and tactical experience for all suit types.

So you mean to say that you think scouts need something that is obviously a bug in order to have an edge?
I doubt ccp meant to have it so players can see through any wall in any sort of fashion.
To me this is a bug and should be fixed without any real debate. Want to see players around the corner through the wall? Either use an active scanner or up your e-war.