I don't know how to describe how useless the radar is on a fatsuit.

i thought further dust ewar changes would require ccp to rework code that they did not want to put the resources into reworking

can someone confirm that ccp has changed their collective mind about this?

Retread hyperbole about Gallogi and permascan, personal issues about EWAR being binary. And fixes to return scouts to their undetectable, high hp, all-seeing peak. We need something else, people. The merry go round has to stop.

- Active scanners could also be based around "time on target". Pull out scanner, aim it at a target, hold down the trigger. The scan e.g. starts at 60 dB and precision is reduced by 10 dB per second as long as the target is still inside the cone. Precision decreases until it reaches maximum precision for that scanner, e.g. 28 dB after ~3 seconds. The charge-meter in the bottom right could be used to indicate scan progress. When precision is smaller than profile, the enemy pops up on the radar until the trigger is released. When the enemy leaves the scanner's cone the precision resets.
- An active dampener as a direct counter to active scanners (use wrist-computer for graphical representation). Upon activation the active dampener reduces scan profile for approximately the duration of one active scanner cooldown. The active dampener doesn't have to be held up to be in effect. Cooldown is twice the active duration.

Bsc - 0%
Adv - 5%
Pro - 10%

Cloak's active damp effect was much higher on release (at 25%), but new values were introduced to prevent undampened, uparmored Scouts from beating scans. Prior to the change, Scouts were able to achieve Assault-like hitpoint levels all the while ducking scans so long as their cloaks were active. The problem was exacerbated by substantially higher cloak reserves and instantaneous decloak mechanics (i.e. fire-from-cloak), which permitted Scouts the ability to decloak, engage and recloak in rapid succession.

In addition to reduction of active damp effect and cloak reserves (HF Alpha?), cloak deactivation was later extended from instantaneous to ~1 second to remedy fire-from-cloak. It was later extended again to the current, clunky ~3 seconds. In a separate but related nerf, the cloak blind mechanic was also introduced, which reduces a cloaked unit's scan range by 85%.

Even after all these cloak nerfs (and an Assault buff), Scouts remained OP. High hitpoint "Assault Lite" remained the go-to slayer suits from March of 2014 (Uprising 1.8) until December of 2014 (introduction of Falloff). Scout usage rates have since plummeted and remain in decline.

As well as a decline in usage from a decline in actual playerbase across those periods.

Good Luck!!