Also every item must have hidden stat like "size", and you must get penalty to your sneak mostly 'cause of this stat, not weight. So it's no matter you holding LSW at hand or in inventory, because it has size X, where X is very much, so having any BG in inverntory will decrease sneak much, because throwing knives, even if thier weigh alot (if you have many) shouldn't decrease your sneak almost the same as minigun.
Getting -50 sneak from armour and then losing another 30 something percent due to weight is too much since sneak isn't good enough to use without gear on. You're getting penalized by the armour twice.
Nice, Roachor, trying to sneak in a Combat Armor? IIRC the point of this sneak nerf was to exactly avoid this kind of thing..
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Hrm, sounds more like a practical application fail. So with 300 sneak, a 10 pe can see you at you at 25 hex and one hit breaks your sneak. Without armour that's 15 hex but if you get hit once most likely you're done for. Neither option is great.
* Sneaking opponent's Sneak is modified by angle by substracting 0, 25, 50 or 75 points, depending on the look direction (back, back-side, front-side, front), reduced by 25 for wearing leather armor (any kind) or 50 for wearing any heavier armor (sneaking in powered armor is not possible). Also, 1 point is subtracted for every 1000 points of inventory weight, rounded down.