Maybe if you made the shotgun a sidearm (Note: I am not a scout). Even still, I think this is a bad idea for any suit class (has been suggested many times for logis, sadly) as newer players who can't use dual prof 5 Ishukone SMGs or whatever would just get crushed.

No.

Logis are already limited enough, we still need to defend ourselves.

Logical from which standpoint?

Realistic - No competent military would intentionally limit the combat capabilities of their unit, as it's within their best interest that all units survive. Medics have access to the same weapons as any other soldier would, barring highly specialized ones (ie, you most likely won't see a medic holding an AV weapon).

Gameplay - Lets look at their weaknesses (compared to Assaults)

• Low HP
• Low Speed
• Low Stamina
• No Sidearm Slot*
• Smaller Engagement Window

Looking at this list, they're already gimped in several areas when it comes to combat and confrontations. They don't need any more weaknesses than what they currently have, as the current ones are sufficient in limiting their combat efficiency.

SR and AV are a small loss that promotes versatility increasing the games health.

Tripods are typically used to mount long-range weapons, such as a Sniper Rifle. Given how medics are typically on the front lines or right behind it, they wouldn't be using a Tripod (hence what I said earlier about highly specialized weapons).

All soldiers are expected to be able to carry a rifle and other gear at the same time, but the Logistics "lightens the load" by not carrying a sidearm, therefore making your analogy irrelevant.

That is some great out of the box thinking, but since sidearms require 2 to use in most cases lets alter it a bit. Lets say that the side arm only change only effects the scout suit it self leaving the light suit as is. This would remove any complaints about Anti vehicle, Sniper Rifle, and Assault loss. All of the benefits brought up earlier in the conversation would still take effect with the added benefit of giving a higher value to light suits.

Try to stay on topic guys.

Snipers would not be penalized light suits have the same db and require 2 dampeners to be unscanable making the 15% from the suits worthless as all other scanners are beaten with one dampener.

Continued(calculations): You would be able to be passive scanned by proto amarr with 2 amps at 2 dampners if you found this to be a problem a better alternative would an assault with 3 damps gaining higher potential with more slots, armor, and a valuable suit bonus.

I don't know that I like this idea, but here's an iteration on the OP - 1 light weapon or 2 sidearms. Thoughts?

EDIT: not an either or situation exclusively. Just if you put a light weapon on the fitting, the sidearm slot is "greyed out" until the light weapon is removed. If you put a sidearm, you can put another sidearm on. Also, I think removing an equipment slot is good (I am a proto scout user by the way who uses 2 sidearms a lot of the time lately)

Translation = "My suit class is completely overpowered and i'd truly hate it if Devs and community made a move to stop the suit from turning the game upside down"

Scouts need to act like scouts and not slayers. Slayers is an assault/heavy role and even then pure attack power is still a bad thing in a game.