How to make side arms useful

[Valiant70]

Here's a suggestion, have pistols ignore shields

This has been suggested many times before and it is a terrible idea. Can you imagine all the little pistol spots and rocket launcher holes kids would leave all over your ship hulls? Plus someone could steal your titan while you're offline. It might take an hour to shoot through all the doors, but all you'd need is a pistol to pull it off.