ship designs boring and too similar

[macjimmy]

I agree that the ships are too similar, but not because of weapons or firing arcs. I think that it is odd that the Fazrah cruiser is billed as the king of fast attack ships, while the Abbidon Crusiser 2 is described as slower than its Terran counterpart. However, top speed, acceleration, etc, are same for all cruisers, destroyers, battleships, and carriers (within the classes I mean). I am messing with modding some of this stuff to be different, such as making the Fazrah ships faster than the others, adding built-in armor & hull regeneration to Amonkrie ships, making the Abbidon ships slower, but maybe with increased resistances, and adding extra base cargo capacity to pirate ships. Only race I am having trouble coming up with an idea for is the Xiati... maybe added shield regen? Hopefully, these kinds of modifications would make the ships a little less generic.