@Millers: Role-play should -never- come into balance. Not even if it's so ooRP it makes your head scream. If we were to follow RP, Phantoms would be instakilling Cruisers and Battleships would have ten times as many guns with the power to destroy a small planet in each.
@Dashiell: 'solution: give em a slight buff (don`t overpower them, that`s no fun either) or make a new "heavy BS"/Dreadnought or something than can fill the gap between the Mako and the Legate/Osiris' - You do realise that the Osiris is a light BS, right? Says a lot that our ships are so overnerfed that we need a heavier alternative simply to kill one of the lightest ones in the game :/
Personally, I don't own any caps. I prefer my bombers. However, after looking at those stats the differences are clear, and they -really- are ridiculous. Enough to cause mindbreak.