Those graphs are not all that relevant to the issue of the gal assault bonus being a bit underpowered compared to the other racial bonuses (except caldari); you have to actually play it for yourself to judge. Have you even tried a gal assault and felt the kick reduction was enough when using a tactical plasma rifle?

Yes we do, usage statistics does not change nor refute the fact that the bonus does not have any meaningful effect, (which means that it's not working as intended), therefore arguments involving its usage are irrelevant.

Making a suit bonus for a single weapon variant is kinda dumb. Better solution would be to slightly reduce recoil on the TAR directly. Since in its own right it should be equivalent to the soon-to-be-rebalanced vanilla scram

So your comparing when tanks were op and when we scouts were op to a bonus that makes very little difference to the actual weapons it relates to...
Ok moving on.
I would enjoy a different bonus on my assault but if we increased either damage or rof it would become ridiculous.
Ammo increase would be not much better
A bonus to running reppers? The cpu and pg cost or the effectiveness of the reps. Maybe even both

And it isn't like you to ignore someones counter argument.

[snip] If your beef is with TAR kick, then fix the TAR kick. "Buff the GA Assault because the TAR kicks" doesn't make much sense. Nor does "Buff the TAR because the ScR"; Rattati has indicated the latter is OP.

The HAV/ADS usage rates weren't at all what concerned me, what concerned me was the fact that they were overpowered. If HAV usage was to skyrocket at this very moment, I'd be assessing their power to determine why they're skyrocketing and then determine whether or not action needs to be taken.

None of my arguments as to why the HAV (or any item) needed to be nerfed involved the fact that they were overused, and everything to do with the fact that they were incapable of being destroyed when operated competently (read: invulnerable) without injecting an impractical/imbalanced amount of AVers to destroy them.

Usage by itself isn't "quality data", as it doesn't display nor determine factors which actually show the power of an item. In this case it's completely irrelevant because the argument of "they are the most widely used Dropsuits" does not offer a refutation, nor rebuttal to the subject at hand.

That aside, there are currently four proven and irrefutable facts:

1. The bonuses are neither significant nor practical
2. The bonuses fail to provide a significant advantage over other roles/classes.
3. Dropsuit bonuses are intended to be both significant and practical.
4. Dropsuit bonuses are intended to provide a significant advantage over other roles/classes.

Given how my (and hopefully everyone's) goal is for all items to work as they were intended (balanced), the only rational and objective course of action would be to pursue a change to their bonus so that it meets the criteria of facts 3 and 4.

Though I must ask, if we were back before Hotfix Delta and the Caldari Scout's bonus was -5% Sniper Rifle Dispersion per Level, would you pursue a change to its bonus?

[Plasma Rifle usage rates are very heavily weighted because new players are using them on all their starter fits.

ITT: Scout cry that they aren't the best killy-suits anymore and that the primary slayer role has been given to Assaults, which is working as intended.

First of all, Assaults aren't OP.

"Assault are now happy that they are the primary slayers, as they should be, and they are now striving for racial balance for themselves, but definitely don't want to pass the reigns back to Scouts."

"Some scouts are buttmad that the actual role of Scouting isn't slaying, but rather, recon. They yearn for the days of shotguns controlling the battlefield to return once more, and are willing to cry for Assault nerfs to get their wish, as they believe that they should be able to outslay Assaults."

I think assault usages should probably be higher than any other suit in the first place. I agree that assaults dont need a buff in general, but thats not a reason to not fix some of the cruddier suit bonuses that some suits have.

Don't think logis need help, and I'd rather not do a speed switch. But I'd sure like to see assault effectiveness per spawn data so we can see if gal/cal (or anyone else) is underperforming. I only have Gal Assault up to 4 and Min assault up to 5, Gal seems great so far and minmitar is good as well.

As far as balance vs. other classes I think its in a good place, except I'd like to see the scouts have buffed e-war if we can do it without making them prime time slayers again, and commandos seem a little weak overall.

A Gallente scout with a similar fit would move significantly faster, be 100% immune to scans (or does he need 3 for gal logi focused scans these days? nearly immune to scanning in any case), be able to hold an additional equipment including a cloak which he would get a big bonus to fitting for, and have better precision, though yes he would have horrible hp.

Example: Gallente Scout

Im with you that scouts might need a little improvement, but given how badly this game reacts to speedy suits in terms of hit detection, etc, increasing their speed might not be the right approach.