Thing is, in single ship to single ship combat, that is true. A bigger ship just has more power, and will win - this is still true in Starmade, as long as both ships are similarly well-designed. What this change does is make the big ship appropriately vulnerable to several smaller ships, even if the smaller ships put together are equal mass to the big one. This was always true in warfare - a number of smaller ships, or smaller tanks, always outgun a single big thing of comparable cost. Making big ships exponentially more powerful as they grow just serves to obsolete the small ships, with no real added value anywhere.
Anyway.
Has anyone else encountered this kinda problem?
So, I was making a sort of a guest dock on my planet. It would have been a station inset into the planet. However, I soon realized that with pirate raids happening as often as they do, and the dumb pirates getting stuck on the planet's surface as often as they do, the dock would be in direct line of fire of the defense turrets. So I abandoned the project and exited the game as a raid was in progress.
Cue next time me loading the game, and seeing this:
The shot-up remains of the dock are one thing. But there's another station-ish thing that I absolutely remember taking apart, as well as.... well, a cluster of something else - stations that are just slabs of red hull set into the planet, and overlay each other. Logical solution? Salvage beam the heck out of it. Thankfully, Tabula Rasa is a mining ship.
That done, I go away on pirate-hunting business, squash another station of theirs (by the by, one of coordinates I saw that a raid was being launched from pointed to an already destroyed base... wth?), and when I return...
The red and grey hull in the inventory are what I got from salvage-beaming these off last time. What the flying funk? It's happened a few times already, and while I appreciate a renewable source of red hull, it kinda ruins my guest dock plans (this time it'll be a planet-built dock so it's immune to turrets, with only docking modules for ships being built into this kind of mini-station inside), not to mention creates a mess on the radar.