Letting your guard down and assuming you always have a full sitrep will be your downfall, whether it comes at the knives of a scout is irrelevant.

OP is an idiot and sales numbers show there is an average 40k suit sales more for scout then the next best suit (assault) THAT should tell you something about how OP scouts are and the problem is snowballing because peopel wanna be OP or want to fight fire with fire since there is NO COUNTER (except exclusively level 5 GAL logi with level 5 Focused active scanners[even tho active scanners are totally broken and useless atm])

http://dust.thang.dk/market_historycategory.php
(right hand dropdown menu -> dropsuits)

ps. the only COUNTER to scouts is MOAR SCOUTS! this being said that is why dust has become **** latly its just gank or be ganked, not gunbattles anymore unelss its scouts bullet weaving a heavy/medium suit to kill them form ANY RANGE with a RAIL RIFLE

Your frames are probably dropping severely and is probably making it harder to fight fast moving targets. It happens to me too when I play late at night. I get paired against people in Asia and Europe so my connection is totally useless and I end up getting out strafed by heavies. If I play at other times of the day my connection is top notch.

Stealth and speed might be important factors, but weapon damage and HP are also important. There is of course good strategy and decent gun game. A suit won't give you either.

Confidence is not a synonym for being cocky. Believing you can win is different from believing you should win. You need to be able to believe in yourself to succeed. Believing you will win always will be your downfall. Not believing in your personal ability means that you have no chance of succeeding.

By the way, a high morale is important in war and history shows that those who lose morale also lose the war.

I'm talking from the perspective of someone who fights scouts not someone who is a scout. You don't need to be the thing you're fighting to be able to say how to counter it. You don't need to be a scout to know how to fight scouts.

Your lack of comprehension to this is disturbing.

I've played multiple roles since closed beta, except that since the last suit SP reset I have poured all my excess SP into assaults. In that time I spent countless setions experimenting with tanked scouts (which everyone called me crazy for doing, but I made it work), made accurate figures of how stealth mods and range amplifiers actually affected our base stats and also calculated the effect of Kinetic Catalyzers on base speed in accordance with the skill and stacking penalty.If it assures you any more, I have played around with all of the new militia level scouts.

I generally find myself in constant skirmishes across the map so I don't get much use from the Caldari Scout's or Gallante Scout's bonus to Electronic Warfare. I personally prefer the Minmatar's speed and the Amarr Scouts excess speed. Honestly, I would have skilled into the Amarr Scout, but refrained from doing so because I wanted to use the Scrambler Rifle and the Amarr Assault is best for that.

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In conclusion I have a lot of experience running scouts and once had a lot of SP tied onto them. Since then I have transitioned to Assault suits which I have ignored for most of my time in Dust.

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Alright, so you say that because I use certain methods to counter a certain threat that my points are invalid because only I can effectively use these methods. I don't think it's correct to assume that I am above all other Dust players. Rather, I think most players just simply aren't informed enough to actually know how to counter threats such as flanking, and that they fail to realize what an ambush is: how to avoid an ambush/create one/spot one.

My thinking is that if people can break down a threat such as scouts into more specific categories then they will better be able to actually fight against them.

That's the point of my original post to inform the players who tend to struggle the most against scouts, while simultaneously denouncing those unwilling to find effective ways to fight threats instead of simply asking CCP to nerf it just so the player base can ask for the next "OP" thing to get nerfed. I predict the next suit on the pallete is the sentinel. You can disagree but I think the Logistics and Assault suits are almost even and yet the heavy is somewhat of an outlier.

And honestly facing problems and overcoming them is the best way to get better at this game. Simply choosing to make the challenge easier to meet your current skill level makes the game dull because it lacks challenge.

My argument is that people should stop complaining about a very counterable threat and simply counter it using more adequate methods than the ones they are using.