It seems that when you say "diverse fleets" you mean a fleet with a wide array of ships filling multiple roles.

The thing is, when others want "diverse fleets", they want a fleet that they can customize to suit a particular role/strategy.

Well it depends on what situation your're in, overall you should have a very flexible fleet.

I think its fine the way it is. The current way means newbies like myself can pick up the game and start trying stategies and concenrate on cordinated battles and counter attacks as opposed to button pressing. Also the current system encourages attacking and not turtling and the cap ships have abilities and the game has heaps of other things that takes a while to master while not prescribing to the idea of micromanagement hell. The current way also seems dam balanced to me compared with other games, thats why battles last so long because there isnt to much micromanagement to the point that only people who play every day know how to use it. It seems more about fleet composition than anything else. (Im all for making the game better but Im not for changes that could alienate a massive portion of players, hence why I like what was said, easy to pickup hard to master)

If people could convince me that adding more complexities would help the majority then maybe I would be for it but I think this is just going to add unecessary restrictions. Big fleets are big fleets and if someone is going to spam 1 kind of unit then they leave themselves open in other ways. Not sure if maybe you are thinking about advent illums here? Either way I am almost certain the devs will work towards an overall balance with the game, and when that happens if people spam units they will just get owned in another way.

Im not meaning to be a pest Its just the games in its infancy so I imagine the devs have heaps of plans and for myself personally I really enjoy how the game plays. Also as far as advent goes Im thinking ok if anything needs fixed do so but let them keep their abilities and give the other factions new abilities as well in relation to their strong points. I am enjoying so much the way the game plays cirrently that if updates get made that really restrict play or even water stuff down to much I may stick with the current patch. In saying this if the next patch is a content patch I think I will be updating asap hehe

That sorta reminds me of rise of nations where the more you build a unit, the more expensive it gets.