Fly transports. Fly more transports. Fly lots of transports. And tell me that it would not be nice to be able to do more than: "Oh, enemy... run for the hills!", especially when flying in teams, etc...
I would find it awesome to be able to actively defend yourself e.g. against incoming torpedos, not just turretsteer-dodge to safety, dock, grin, wait, undock, continue.
I am not asking for a transport to be able to solo attackers. A flak would not allow them to. But would add some interesting change from the pattern "full turret type 3, fly towards base, turret-steer, fire backwards..." and give people a choice in loadout.
And, tnx for the "how to survive". Standard answer to something that I did not ask about. =)