Don't know how about you, guys, but while I was recently thinking about creating fleets and own ship designs it came to me, that I really miss the swarms of little fighters during combat. Coz' right now what we basically have, are situations where let's say 3 figters defend a whole planet against an invasion... or worse, 1 fighter and 1 troop transport makes a whole invasion fleet!
To counter that a bit I set some rules on myself:
1. When building fighter, instead of naming it like: "Barracuda" I prefer to name it: "Red Devils Squadron" and pretend, that there are much more than only 1 fighter in it.
2. I never add life support to fighters and tend to station them on planets or starbases (so that longer journeys are only for the bigger ships)

But I still miss the ability to build carriers...
What do you think?