Hmm... What kind of bonus could we have to replace the Nova Knife damage bonus?

Or could we still keep our damage bonus and have super duper Knives?

The Scout bonuses seem to be working ok to me, and I don't think they really need another major shake-up since the last one when the Cal Scout was OP, or even when the Amarr Scout was the best back when we had a larger Scan Radius. I think the only Scout that should have it's bonuses looked is the Amarr Scout.

Lol. Nova knives are plasma and cqc oriented. They are obviously Gallente. Don't know why people think there Caldari. It's literally the opposite of the Caldari doctrine which shoot from long range and make every shot count. Oppose to Gallente which get in close and bi tch` slap them with loads of damage.

I believe galscout has to be triple damp to escape the scans

Interestingly I made almost the exact same proposal in the barbershop a while back.

A potential alternative Gallente scout bonus would be to cloak duration/recharge. Or give Caldari the cloak bonus and Galente scan range, if you want to be more racially aligned.

There are issues however. Firstly there is the danger of making the Minmatar scout overpowered. Also, whilst I like the idea of making knives more viable on other suits, removing the knife bonus to Min scouts potentially loses the flavour and heart of the suit. Knives are part of a Min scout's identity. Losing the bonus, even if knife damage was buffed generally, would remove that identity.

Why skill into a whole suit just to speed hack?

Get a Gal Scout and stack it with 4 CBs and you'll be close enough not to know the difference.

For as many people that have huge amounts of SP and are willing to respec, they could easily just ditch the Min Scout, keep their Gal Scout, and have a scout close enough to a Minja for it not to matter.

They can stack KCs for speed, and CBs for hacks.

The ONLY thing they can't stick a mod on for is stamina regen, which can be negated by just throwing on a Cardiac Reg and having a big enough stamina pool not to matter.

Its not unlike where the Amarr are now. They are good scouts, but pretty much anything they can do, Gals can do better, and since the Precision bonus is now crap like I said earlier, there is no reason to run them other than being the Empress' cuckhold.

Leave the scouts alone. Worry about jumping mass driver minspammers

Id like to but theres no point. Scrubs will defend their op crap and exploits.

A melee speed bonus wouldn't mirror a certain glitch that a certain someone abused would it?

Lets humor YOU. Too bad. The bonuses will stay the same most likely. You are attemtping to think too much in a game that is full of lag and exploits

There would be plenty of reasons to use nova knives on a Min scout. With the damp bonus you could happily run two kincats and a damp in your low slots and be as fast and dampened as anyone. The Min scout's natural speed and stamina make it great for knifing.

It's just that they might lose some flavour being known as "that suit which hacks" rather than "that suit which knifes". Although hacking is already the Min scout's primary identity in PC.

Hmmmmmmm....... enhanced shields. The Min scout's low PG still needs some jiggery pokery to get round.

I would replace one Kincat on the Min with a codebreaker. However, this makes a fair comparison difficult. So instead how about this:

On Min scout-
Swap one shield on the Min scout with a precision enhancer.
Swap one kincat for a ferroscale (yes, abhorent I know, bear with me).
Replace remaining enhanced shields with complex.

On Gal scout-
Swap a shield for a precision.
Swap a kincat for a reactive.

Cal scout-
Leave the same.

Now we have scouts with much more similar stats. All able to passively scan assaults at long range.

The issue now is, the Gal and Cal scout racial bonuses to EWAR (or cloaks is changed) would benefit their ability to use knives, whereas the Min scout hack bonus doesn't.

The Min scout's natural speed and stamina do help it though. And the hack bonus is awesome anyway.