There are often complaints about recon players just sitting back, sniping, and being kinda unhelpful in regards to pushing objectives. The most useful recons often don't even play like snipers. However, the mechanics of the class (e.g. the long shot XP bonus) and the available weapons encourage longer range play, and actually sniping like this is something that some recons (including me) enjoy and/or want to do. I myself feel like I need to maintain a balance between doing what I enjoy (long range sniping) and actually being useful to the team. Make long range play more useful to the team in some way (because that's what the class itself seems to encourage), whether through perks or through a new gamemode/map that favours this style of play, because half the maps kinda discourage it.