Hard to balance. And realistically why would someone be able to use an SMG and not an AR, just for example.

I'd rather see it be balanced somehow that any light weapon could be used (except maybe swarms)

Here's what I thought of a while ago:

- DS bay doors are manually controlled by the pilot
- While doors are open players can fire their light weapons
- Doors can be manually opened, but will automatically close when the pilot either climbs to a specific altitude (50 ft) or exceeds a certain speed.

This would make it so that passengers can shoot, but only if the DS is in a low hover, or moving slowly and flying low.

This would prevent the biggest problem I can foresee: flying around with swarm launchers in your ship blasting other DS's.

OR

Another potential solution would be to remove the above mentioned auto- door close when reaching altitude and speed, but make it so opening your doors slows your DS's speed and climb rate by 50%. This way, if you are in a dogfight and decide to open your doors to allow your swarms to fire, you slow down and become a sitting duck, with your doors open, exposing your passengers.

OR

Easy way out, anything but a swarm can be fired from a passenger.