Because shotguns and ARs ARE part of the scouts role.

The scouts role is to get be in the battle to gather intel and be able to get in and out quickly.

You should consider the discrepancy in your logic.

The nerf had nothing to do with weapons in the first place.

As mentioned above, these skill changes are largely to discourage assault-focused players from using the Logistics suit as their frontline choice.

Weapon does not define role.

Play style defines the role. The dropsuit is only a guideline for an idea of the role, it does not mean you have to play as that role entirely.

The nerf had everything to do with the lack of balance for the Caldari Logi with the number of slots available to it in context of the CPU/PG it had.

The Amarr Logi got a nice buff and is more 'offensive' thanks to the two weapon combinations.

Your logic would mean that Logi's should not be using weapons at all.

As mentioned above, these skill changes are largely to discourage assault-focused players from using the Logistics suit as their frontline choice.

scouts are an assassination class, sniper rifles aren't the only way to do that, shotguns used to be one of the best ways to accomplish that in fact.

Obvious troll is obvious.

As mentioned above, these skill changes are largely to discourage assault-focused players from using the Logistics suit as their frontline choice.

I honestly don't even believe any of the current scouts are meant to be snipers. If anything, its the caldari scout that will be geared toward that role.

I hope this helps clarify their logic while offering insights into analytic and critical thinking of the English language.

maybe it was because I started just out of open beta, but I've always thought of scouts as front line assasins that die if you catch them, and that's more or less what they do.

logis were always supposed to be a support class that supports...and back then they were horrible compared to assault suits.

A scout dropsuit is the best option when missions call for speed and stealth. Equipped with stealth modules, the scout suit is the obvious choice for infiltration, counter-espionage, and assassination.

Right. Every suit has levels of 'discouragement' inherent in the design.

If a scout wants more health, they have to buy into armor. This prevents speed on their part which is their bread and butter.

They could use the Ferro plates but this is high PG/CPU. This would prevent them from using a shield mod, damage mod, etc as they normally would or force them to use basics. Maybe even force to consider what level of weapons they want to use.

A heavy, for more speed, would have to give up armor plating, which is helpful for a heavy as they are not very fast even with kinetics.

It's not to *prevent* you from playing into these roles. It's forcing you to *think* about how you want to play that role.

Does any of this make sense to you yet?

1. "Discourage" =/= "prevent" people can - and still do - use the Caldati logi as their fronline choice.

Irrelevant. The point is that they are not RESTRICTED to being ONLY used for support, as you seem to believe.

Your lolassesment of the situation is the root of your issues, not CCP's "logic".

Derp.

Troll on, little troll!

Not mad. Don't care. Was bored, so I thought I'd have some fun in your little troll thread.

You've taken one specific nerf to one specific suit, erroneously attributed it to ALL suits of it's class, and then are arbitrarily attempting to apply the reasoning behind that nerf to a completely different class of suits.

Nice try, though.