Remember that the scenarios I put up are never suggestions or calls for anything, they're ways to bring up opinions of the community and debate about them in a friendly context.
I say up the powercores of transports generally - and balance them by the number of guns they have. All transports should be balanced to fire near-indefinately.
Either that - or let all transports be able to mount gunboat guns - and balance them with their powercore...
This hypothesis must come to fruition. Turn transports back into transports instead of the vessels forged by the Hammer of God that can steal Manhattan's tax income if they wanted to.