What? He just rebalanced the game, I don't see how that's stupid. Now ship power isn't actually decided purely by size.
Bigger ships should be more powerful than other ships and require another big ship or large amount of small ones to defeat.
The update gave a fairer 1v1 chance vs a bigger ship, but makes big ships easier to kill by swarms of small ships than before.
I love the shield nerf, yes it makes smaller ships capable of destroying a badly designed or unprotected larger ship. But a massive ship should be protected by not just it's own turret system, but also other smaller ships. Not just sitting out in the middle of nowhere. Mind you my own ships lost quite a bit of regen as well.
I already put my thoughts down
in this thread on the starmade forums where people were complaining about how terrible it is. Here's a snippet.
This change makes ships of all sizes important instead of just a bunch of big behemoths being superior to everything. Capitals kill stations, bombard planets and kill other capitals and cruisers. Medium ships harass bombers to limit their damage, kill fighters, and provide support fire against other capitals by aiming for turrets. Bombers disable turrets and kill capitals, Fighters kill bombers and other fighters but can't efficiently hurt capitals and get shot to hell by cruisers.
Capitals can still destroy almost everything, unless the builder is crazy and dosn't put many turrets on the thing, but an organised group of smaller ships can still take a lone one out.
Massive ships should not be alone. But when even remotely escorted they can wreck.
EDIT: This is the same concept used in games like Freespace and
Freespace 2. Which are two of THE BEST SPACE COMBAT GAMES EVER CONCEIVED. (emphasis mine)
EDIT2: And
this is what I feel these big fleet battles should look like, notice how the fights are still all among the huge ships with the big lazers, but the little fighter the player is controlling and other bombers and fighters all over the battlefield are still contributing, by taking out larger ship's turrets and in the case of bombers directly blasting the big ships.