I agree that the scout suit is broken. I'm concerned that the solutions being offered are to make the scout suit more like the assault suit. This doesn't make sense to me. They should just remove the scout suit if that's what you want.

The scout suit needs to be improved by improving the things it's supposed to do better than everything else. A big part of that is signature profile. The base for the scout should be greatly reduced (-10 or -15) and it should be increased significantly for the assault(+10) and a ton for the logi's and heavies(+30). Oh and Free LAV's need to be +100. Right now, there isn't nearly enough to differentiate the various sig profiles between the suits. This also goes for the base levels of the signature profile detection mechanics. Scouts should be excellent at seeing enemy stuff on the map, assault mediocre and logi/heavy really bad at it by default (everyone should always be able to see their teammates all of the time).

Next is adding things that will give the scout an advantage in other ways. I think we need ascension cables, jetpacks, and look forward to the real stealth modules that CCP is already planning. I think for the jetpacks and cables especially, the powergrid needs should be based on the weight of the suit (i.e. it takes significantly more energy to hoist an assault suit up than it does a scout, and so much more to do a heavy that they're not going to be able to fit much else).

I'd also like to see a nano-jump drive module for the CQC scout where they can teleport very short distances (like 5 meters) if it's within LOS (there would be a significant cooldown). This would allow a "backstab mechanic" so they can get behind someone once they've been spotted. It would radically improve survivability, but in a way true to the nature of the suit instead of just turning the scout into something other than a glass cannon.

Currently, the Minja scout is at 2L/3H slots and the Ganja scout is 1H/4L.

I propose changing this to Minja 3L/3H and the ganja to 2H/4L. In addition, buff the CPU/PG by 15-20%.

I can't see anyone having any arguments against this, and makes the scout far more viable. So I won't bother to reinforce why this makes sense. It just does.

If you somehow disagree- see caldari logi 5H/4L. I rest my case.

yea. that stuff is fine, and probably deserves it's own thread.

If your team is dumb enough to leave one person to guard an objective and you get jumped by 6 people, failing to defend the objective is not a failure of the heavy suit's design.

The failure is your team's.

Seriously if a heavy could reasonably expect to consistently win a 4v1, EVERYONE WOULD BE A HEAVY.

And then you'd be back to square one, dying because of your fail team.

Edit: Sorry for posting about heavies in your scout thread, just tired of these dumb complaints.

I've been saying for ages that the gallente suit progression is weird for scouts but I disagree that you should give the proto one extra hi to make it right - instead make the adv 1 hi 3 lo.

A very small CPU/PG increase would be adequate but nowhere near 15-20%; I'd say 10% would be ok.

Are any proto suits capable of running a full proto loadout? I know Logis can't.