L3 won't work because it's the sprint button and as it stands I have a problem with over pressuring the left thumbstick and ending up suddenly sprinting like a lunatic when I was trying to aim down sights... Most games that have variable zoom lengths on scopes use the r3 button. That said it's not going to happen. They could easily do this with say the queen breakers bow, in fact I would love it if they did, but they demand you go into menu to switch your scope... I see according to your profile you've been a member for around 160 days approximately, this doesn't necessarily mean you're new to the destiny franchise just that perhaps your previous gameplay may not be tracked.... But I will proceed with the presumption you have not played the original Destiny to completion. In destiny 1 there was a sniper who's exotic perk was variable zoom, in addition to kills with this weapon causing a bright flash that blinded near by enemies. It was known as the Hereafter. And.... It was ultimately one of the least used snipers to be honest. Bungie doesn't want to go with anything extreme low zoom on snipers because while.... In real world, you would absolutely have a holographic or red dot sight to augment your long range scope both to allow for aiming at near range targets and also to help you more rapidly acquire long range targets, bungie wants sniping to be a high skill check gameplay mechanic where in the sniper rifle feels different than literally every other weapon in the game.... They could absolutely solve the problem by allowing variable scoping like warframe does on it's snipers, but they won't, because they think that low zoom makes sniping too easy. It's why line rifles are overall so bad... They're easy to use, like a scout rifle that has to charge to fire. They fill their role nicely but you have one line rifle you've seen them all. The only real "god roll" that exists for them is snapshot and backup plan. /maybe/ under pressure.... Come to mention it it would be nice if some scout scopes had variable zoom.