Big ship supremacy... Can little ships keep up?

[PvK]

Rollo said:
One question I often ask myself, though, when discussing this topic. If bigger isn't better, why reserch higher levels of ship construction?

Because bigger is better - for some things, but not for all things.

[Baron Munchausen]

PvK said:

Because bigger is better - for some things, but not for all things.

Yeah, that's the key. The SE IV ship design system doesn't take scale into account so 'bigger' turns out to be better in every way when it shouldn't be.