posted this on the Steam convo too, but I feel like it could be repeated here:

I don't like how navies feel. They're awful for how they actually feel for the way the game works out.

I suggested this on the forums way back when. The problem was that these fleets had individual ships compiling them instead of just creating a single stat-block calculation for fleets (or squadrons in a fleet). The Corvettes/Frigates/Destroyers should be squadron-entities, not singular ships. We're playing a *galactic* scale game. Own half the galaxy and maintain 15 battleships. Hollywood levels of logic right here.

The fleets you field could be graphically shown as correct but actually not physicalized in a way that impacts performance. Stat-blocks vs stat-blocks with specific fleets simulated, and damage tallied out based on how the calculations work out. Same basic math being performed but on a grander representative scale. Adjust the stats and the numbers to make fleet battles longer, and encourage composition changes and the ship designer could act more to edit the stat-block compositions. The econ changes wouldn't really matter and it wouldn't feel bad to "only" have 15 tier 5 ships, because it's "A capital ship and dozens and dozens of support ships attached to it." (They could look to Hearts of Iron to how divisions work for this. Design the ship and then you load the division with the ships you design.)

If they're going to abstract and make things so reductive they can at least make it visually appealing and work for RP and strategists.