If you take its light away, then what's the point of having snipers and shotguns. Every other dropsuit has one. There are other ways to tackle scouts. Takeaway one equipment slot and refuse their total hp so they are easier to kill

I agree, and I disagree with the back half of what you said, Lightning.
You are VERY right about taking away weaponry NOT being a great solution.

Just because they are using a Scout Dropsuit, doesn't mean at all that they are Scouts. Your problem-child here (the bug you need to swat, in my opinion) is NOT Scouts.
I am a driver. I don't "scout" anything except a safe place to plop my vehicle's behind when I land. But Dust is about "making your own fitting", and I choose a Scout Suit to fit my driver purpose. I am also frequently armed with a shotgun because I know when I get caught, it is usually going to be in a close-in-my-face gunfight. Bucking him with ole' bossy is nearly my only hope.

Where I disagree is, that there is something wrong with Scouts that has to be tackled.
There is nothing wrong with Scouts that has to be addressed in the area this thread is highlighting.

If you put limits on a Suit (just because it's a "Scout-suit") you hit at everyone whose going about their business in an honest job, (including the one's who are actually Scouts---they seldom use shotguns, from what I'm hearing). And you'll still be missing the true pest,... the Cloaker-Shotty. Many cloak-shotties don't know or care a thing about Scout-suits or Scouting---they only know they want to be inviso and kill random victims from their couch. If they weren't doing in this game, they'd be doing it in "the Stat Trek Romulan XVII game".

If you eliminate the shotgun from their inviso-n-shotty, they'd perfect their inviso-n-NovaKnife.
Your pest-enemy (my pest enemy too), is the abuse of "inviso" that creeps into any game that offers "inviso".

So far Dust was the only game that made a pest-control version of cloak. But, well....ugh.

So lately scouts have been getting on my nerve (mostly shotgun scouts) i decided to see what the big hubabub was, so i skilled into them. I went proto amarr scout and instead of being a noob, i decided to use only sidearms ( with a scp and kn). I also tried using them with a light weapon and saw no real difference in effectiveness.

I suggest that scouts should only be able to wield sidearms, this would put them in a more balanced position right now, and there isnt much trade off.

Feedback and ideas are wanted, as of now scouts are way too over powered. They need to be fixed, this would hopefully lead to a closer balance of the scouts.

No instead just remove the sidearm slot... now if they want a sidearm then can still put it into the light weapon slot. they ahve to choose what they want to do now instead of having it all.

OP sounds like a reasonable request, let's do that.

Don't encourage this idiocy.

It will only lead to more SMG shenanigans.

Certain side arms are op, but the point is to allow scouts to be balanced with a minimal effect to other classes which this easily achieves.