I think the entire racial bonus system needs to be re thought.

Basic racial suits should recieve a bonus, so what I would like to see is:
Minimatar bonus +2% move speed increase
Minmatar Scout +5% Nova Knife damage
Minmatar Assault +5% sidearm clipsize
Minmatar Logistics +5% repair tool effciency

rough example

Discussing the Gallente Scout's bonus of scan profile, it should probably be greater than 10% per level or give it a greater base value. Right now it has a base value of 10 meters. To see how worthless that is, check this out.

http://s23.postimg.org/vzroe12fv/minimap_ranges.jpg (note I did not make this nor take credit for it)

But ok 10% per level, so prototype Gallente Scout gets 15 meter radius. That is still within that first circle, still pretty useless. But ok Gallente Scout has 4 low slots, so let's use all of those on Complex Range Amplifiers. That is an additional 230%. That puts it's range at 38 meters. Ok, so now you are starting to see some benefit out of this as you reach the first tick on your radar. But that's when you do everything you absolutely can to max out this one attribute, and it leaves you with only 118 CPU to fit a high slot, light weapon, sidearm, grenade, and equipment for a complex tier suit. So maybe it's just me but again, either it needs to be more than a 10% bonus per level or give it a higher base value so that 10% means more.

I'd probably give them something along the lines of:
Gallente Heavy Dropsuit- 3% armor plate health bonus increase per level
Caldari Heavy Dropsuit- 3% shield extender increase per level
Minmatar Heavy Dropsuit- 5% increase to heavy weapon RoF per level

They've already said it'll be equipment based bonuses...

So something like:

Caldari: Nanohives bonus
Gallente: Rep Tool?
Amarr: Drop Uplinks
Minmatar: Scanner maybe?

Man I'm going to be heart broken if/when they take my hack bonus. That thing is amazing.

I honestly think that they would be making a mistake to change the Minmatar, Gallente, and Amarr bonuses. The Minnie and Gal bonuses are already logistics bonuses, and the Amarr logi is supposed to be half assault, so its bonus makes sense. The only bonus that makes no sense is the Caldari one at the moment, HOWEVER if they did make the mistake of changing them I would say it would be:

Caldari: Nanohives
Gallente: Nanite Injector
Amarr: Drop Uplinks
Minmatar: Repair Tool

When I first heard about the Crusader suit, that is what I imagined it to be, a suit designed to strengthen and triage team-mates, while the logistics suit could run EWAR and offensive equipment, like scanners, REs, PEs, and uplinks.

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Are scouts just there to look pretty as floor mats?


Scouts do infarct exist in the game and should function as the team dividers through ewar. Currently we suffer by having to act like wannabe assaults but without the tools.

Consider the following,

Medium suits make better snipers by having the hp to survive a counter snipe and by having much higher spike damage by having more cpu/pg and slots for damage mods.

Medium suits can also with slots refocus themselves to on par with scout sprinting speeds and function in cqc with less risk than scouts, scouts can do it cheaper but with a higher death count.

Being able to passively detect someone within 10 to 20 meters does nothing for our wps and very little for our survivability. Common AR killing range is 60 meters, though I guess nova knife users should be wary now right?


Scout racials need two of the following characteristics, high spike damage or ewar effectiveness. And if you noticed I said ewar effectiveness not cpu/pg reductions because scouts will never be able to close the gap with the other suits.

Cal Scout: % to effectiveness of noise inducing equipment and ECCM (ewar resistance)
This scout would function by creating false information or by cutting off real information of which wps would be earned from it.

Ama Scout: % capacitor equipment effectiveness

These would be items that would drain shields and give it to the A.Scout, or would disrupt enemy weapons systems,


Min Scout: % bonus to Tackling equipment
The Min being one of thy fastest suits being able to reduce the speed of other suits by either slowing them to crawl and aiming speeds. This would allow the suit to wreck the effected afterwards.

Gal Scout: % strength stealth and detection modules

Self explanatory but essentially it benefit from all its low slots being able to customize and get more out of each modules

With the same logic, that is like saying there is enough guns to go around, everything in the game is based on relative performance, thus scouts users are very often cut off from pc matches and the like due to the fact that medium suits can either match it or do it better. Essentially scouts severely lack their own unique role and are disadvantaged while trying any other.

It is that bad, also in the post about active scanners indicated that cloaking was still on the table, either way further down the road or not going to be implemented at all due to balancing difficulties.