Why not bring accuracy into play with scouts and smaller ships.In sw smaller ships were harder to hit.Bump up thier suvival without makeing them a threat.

Here is another one.The large ships have really high dps.What if you broke their dps into 4 like a sb.They can fir at 4 different targets on each side and cut the dps by 4.

As i remember it, any given turreted gunmount on a vessel had the capacity for independent fire. So say, a capital ship would be able to fire at dozens of targets, even though it would inflict lighter damage relatively speaking per gun mount against equivalent tonnage.