There are a few little things that could be done. At the moment assaults are easily replaced by mechs for PVP (Not PVE).
E-war light does a very large amount of DPS when swarmed making them very powerful for large number groups.
Light robots are slow and while having only a little less DPS than an assault there is no real need to use them when you can use an assault. The cost effective argument is invalid due to everything being so easy and cheap to make.

This game isnt about 1v1.

Just throwing in some thoughts:
- Why not reduce the hit dispersion of medium weapons? If attacked by a light ew gang, a mech pilot should have the chance to take down 1-3 of them before being locked down. This would greatly reduce the cost-effectiveness of light ew and give mech ew some meaning.
- Why not give medium weapons some minimum range? Light ew bots could try to run into the safe zone next to the mech, but then have to run away again to avoid (the soon to be added) collateral damage. I really wonder why bigger weapons don't have some minimum range.

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working as intended. Dont blame the balancing that was in place for ages now, that you have resetted and specced for mechs while they dont have a use.

medium missiles got nerfed a bit to much, but that was necessary, as they did not work as intended (killing everything from more then 500m away with no LoS issues in max 2 salvos... with the low damage ammo)

like i wrote earlier, a skilled gauss cannon fitted Kain can one-shot a waspish, while having the speed and resist advantage. A Artemis has enough range and armor to kill an Arbalest, and the Tyrannos - sorry, never tried against Baphometh, but two showts from a medium neut will harm the bapho much more then the tyrannos (ok, forget that, the EM-Dispersion and a small injector cancel it out)

Now since they rerolled directly for mechs, they want mechs to be more effective against assaults ?

Skills meaning actual skills. Knowhow of the game.   A 'skilled' assault pilot can easily kill a mech pilot if they know what they are doing.  Maybe in a few months when people have much better mech skills it wont be the same, but someone spec'd into assaults is extremely dangerous to a lower skilled mech pilot.

And you cant say "similar" at all in this case.  If they have similar skills, the mech pilot will have more EP.  If they have the same EP the assault will have much higher levels since they didnt have to climb the ladder to get to any of their relevant skills.

if they have the same EP the assault pilot will always have better skills than the mech.  the mech has to "waste" some into prerequisite skills.  At later stages (level 8+) it will be negligible but theres still a difference.

I'm not saying an assault should be cannon fodder to a mech, but right now the cost of a mech is no where near justified as compared to the assault.

thats so true. It would be either heavy mech or small ewar - anything else is just a stepping stone.
atm, everything has a use, except small combat bots, they are just zerg-units.

The cost to value ratio presumes that pilot availability is a limiting factor. If you have 10 pilots, would you rather have them in 10 mechs or 10 assaults (you probably actually want a mix of types, including things that are not mechs or assaults but for the sake of argument, assume those were the choices you had). Clearly the 10 mechs, despite their drawbacks, should easily dispatch 10 assaults (again assuming an appropriate amount of EP, even as low as 60k for every pilot involved). Yes the mechs cost far more nic, but with a limited amount of pilots, who cares.

This whole post is based around 'bang for your buck' but unfortunately the prices are based on an immature economy. Eventually, the price of these mechs will decrease to their perceived worth. With them still being the 'new big toy' people are paying a premium.

Mechs are the "light bot" of the medium size.  Heavy mechs are the "assault robot" of the medium size.  Adding a smaller mech really doesnt make sense.