Thanks for your input.  I personally think you're lucky more players don't share your thoughts, lest you would have a much harder time winning games.  Not being able to see trumps all other challenges in a game, save for having no guns/ammo (and SDE addressed that by making it a requirement on BBs).  This suggestion does not take away a significant level of customization from the game.  There's no reason you couldn't sacrifice an engineer or repairman slot for the same purpose, especially if you're so willing to give up your control of sight in battle.  CVs could also be used for this purpose if you were willing to sacrifice support/pilot slots.  Your response is an example of the misperception that's becoming increasingly common- "the scout is the least important sailor so if I'm going to sacrifice a sailor for the sake of leveling, it should be him."  It is that perception this suggestion intends to address.

I reiterate, the purpose of this suggestion is to add structure to basic fundamentals with the long-term goal of improving player performance and satisfaction.

In the real world, the most successful organizations strike a good balance between structure and freedom.  While dictatorship is inefficient and undesirable, so is anarchy.  I understand that people hate the sensation of being guided or controlled, but there are instances where it benefits the common good.  In relation to the metaphor, this would increase the guidance structure from:

BO + Gunners + Guns + Ammo --> BO + Gunners + Scout + Guns + Ammo.

As I stated I said I was thankfull for those few battles without a scout where other people scouted for me.
As I stated I was lvling other things on it, this will make my extra repairman/engineer much more of a value than my scout. So this will make my ship way more useful than it would have been with a scout.

This topic looks like wanting to forbid a 2 gun Lion 2, let's be honest, it's useless in battles where you can't do tactics with mates. Three guns is far better. I don't really care about their decision to go 2 guns only and that's the same for having no scout. 

I understand your problem very well, but I don't agree on taking the problem away with a dedicated scout slot. People got lazy (skilllevel drop), because of all the events, not because some of them don't have a scout.

I try to help people so now and than, but usually they ignore me or they think that I am making fun of them. I think the player who I am trying to help should think beyond that.

Greetz Joor

P.S.: Since you want a scout so badly, than use one and scout for yourself. I don't see the badside of this..

This is what I disagree with, and one motivation in creating this suggestion.

That is an inaccurate comparison.  With this, you will still have every ability to put pilots in BB support slots or whatever it is you do.  Forbidding various gun setups would be outright wrong, and would set a dangerous precedent for the future of the game.

I'm not sure what you meant with your PS, but I scout every game.  Realize it's not the effort of a few, but an entire team, that provides successful scouting.  Your team will have the greatest possible chance of winning when all enemy ships are visible, and that naturally requires multiple scouts constantly running.  By that token, I consider it vital- moreso than reps and engineers.

If you want to agree to disagree, that is fine.  Thanks for your feedback.

Don't you see?  This mind-set IS the problem!

The problem is not the mindset of those who refuse to run scouts because they can set up their ship however they want. The problem is that of the people who refuse to run scouts because they expect others to scout for them. The first group tend not to complain about blindness, so this is not so bad. The second... all they do is complain about it.

+1 to you. 

@ the others I am fully aware of what I am doing when I don't equip my scout... Out of the battles I played with BB it's far less than 1% of which I played without a scout, besides it's usually only in WaW... There are more skilled players in Blitzkrieg than in those rooms...

Besides that I found it more annoying that people don't even try to dodge your shells, it's no fun. I should have made a screenshot of it and posted it on the forum to show you guys how sad it is. 380k attack and I still lost the battle... (GBII with L2) =') 

I am sorry for my previous bad comparison, but that is how I look at this topic. 

Greetz Joor

You know I love you fromage, if you think this would make people tend to dodge more than Ill recc it for you. The only thing I expect from this atm is that people will, I am sorry, that more people will launch their scout at default altitude into the fighters or AA. 

P.S.: Do you have any idea how many games I lose with my lvl 120 German FW cv with scout nowadays than when I did 2 years back? I can tell you that I stopped playing my CV and now lvl my new fighters + SM on my VV in WaW... :P

Well at the very least I expect it to make people more aware of what they're doing, which in turn will make the game more competitive.  Thanks Joris.