Cpt-Praxius,
You are trying to protect your false sentence, that person can't be a sniper without a scope.
If you now agree, that someone can be a sniper without a scope - say it.
Stop your demagogic arguments like "the exception proves the rule".
Ok, how's this.... I don't believe anybody who fires a weapon without a scope is a sniper, but a sharpshooter. This is correct because depending on which country you look at, depending on who's history you follow, this would be correct, since the term "Sniper" holds more then one meaning.
Example...... and a decent one this time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper
Just looking through the long list of various descriptions from one country to the other, there is no one solid definition for what a sniper is, besides someone who tries to hide when they fight.... which as already said countless times by not just me, but others in this thread as well.... that this definition is already met in game by my own actions in-game, as well as anybody else who plays the same way.
When I am sniper class, I hide, I stay out of the normal angle of fighting, I shoot at long distances, I will stay in one spot for as long as it serves "my" objectives and then relocate when necessary.
Based on all of this, I already fit your requirements for a sniper in the game, thus the class title suits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marksman
^ Now with Marksman, even what they describe here, compared to what you are describing a Marksman as isn't absolute either:
"The main difference between a marksman and a sniper is that a marksman is usually considered an organic part of a team of soldiers, whereas snipers tend to work solitarily or with other snipers."
^ Usually, not always.
And depending on how a player plays in the game RO, determines what they are, not by your limited understanding of playing the game.
Just because you play a certain way, doesn't mean everybody else plays as you do, nor should they.
What most people agree with, that in RO Sniper is a more designated marksman, than "real" sniper.
I think most agree with
wikipedia description of designated marksman
Ah, so now we switch from just a "Marksman" to now using "Designated Marksman"
Stick to one or the other, otherwise your argument is fractal.
And what "Most People Agree with" in regards to RO?
I see two... maybe three people in her arguing for Marksman over Sniper.
You're still wrong when it comes to the game, because it's not actually the game that tells us what the class is (Besides telling us it's a Sniper in class selection) It is the Player and how they play which determines this.
And yet while I address just about everything you say or focus on, you continually avoid this fact of the player and keep rolling back to irrelevant points that still don't matter to the actual discussion.
There are all sorts of meanings for Marksman, Sniper, Sharpshooter, Counter-Sniper, Precision Marksman, Tactical Marksman, Precision Riflemen, Precision Shooter, etc etc.
Thus, pretty subjective based on the tactics used..... which has been the same thing I have already been saying for the last couple of pages.
For me personally (not including tactics since that should have been a given a long time ago) the most effective sniper is one who uses a scope..... anything else I would consider a sharpshooter, which as I have already provided a definition for:
"The second military grade of proficiency in the use of rifles and other small arms."
"an expert marksman, esp with a rifle"
Which means a Marksman or Sharpshooter could be anybody that has good aim, such as a good rifleman, or someone who can pick off someone at a distance with an MP40, etc..... this is why I conclude that a Sniper (in most cases) usually requires a scope to set some sort of difference, besides obvious tactics which have not been in dispute in the first place.
If that clarifies anything.