[AgentZero]

Not to split hairs or anything, but Capital Ship is simply a Category into which you put your largest ship. So a destroyer is technically a capital ship if it's the biggest thing you've got. Nevertheless, I was thinking of something similar in the form of the Flagship. You would be obviously be allowed only one Flagship per fleet. Designating a ship as the flagship would give it a large boost to all its stats (shields, engines, weapons, etc) and also give a lesser, but still signifcant boost to all the other ships in the fleet.

In terms of doubling the size of the ship, I'm not too sure about that, but it does lead me into another point I wanted to make which was that in SE4 I don't really think there's enough difference in the size of ships. I currently play with my own mod which starts out with an Escort (which I've renamed Corvette. I think all the old SE4 beta testers remember my feelings on the topic ;-) ) at the usual 150kt, but a Dreadnought weighs in at 12000kt. And I tell ya, they may be prohibitively expensive and take ages to build, but one of those babies is all it takes to seriously ruin someone's day.