What new abilities would you like to see?

[Andrés]

SE4 ships are ridiculously tiny when compared with most sci-fi ships.
I feel that there's not enough incentive to build really large ships.

Actually larger ships should REDUCE cost.
Large crentralized systems and reduction of redundant parts allows for a significant reduction of construction and operating cost.
The only cost advantage of small ships is that you can build them one by one, while you cannot build 1/4 large ship.

On the other hand you're right about components such as cloaking devices, you should need a larger more powerful one to achive the same cloaking level in a larger ship.