The Vanduul Glaive currently has size 3 shields, yet the XML for the size 3 shields on the Gladius says they're three times stronger than the Glaive's. Does that make sense to anybody?
TL;DRSuch stat discrepancies are expected for a year or so because balance is iterative and needs playtesting; components and ships will be cleaned up and made consistent over the long term, but not urgently.
With weapon and balance stats right now, there's going to be a lot of stuff that's in flux, and we're not going to tune to a razor's edge balance, and there's going to be some wild discrepancies that will pop up from now through even the next year or so of development on this, because we can't get everything dead right on the first pass.
We're going to need playtesting, we're going to need tuning. Some things will get out of date as new systems get brought online. So it's just an iterative process.
Long term, everything will get some cleanup to it, but it's not like a drop everything and try and fix this one thing to perfection right now, because we've got so many other systems that need work.
All the components are still going to be going through iterations themselves. And once those components are iterated on, then that's going to trickle down to retrofit a lot of the ships to make sure that all of them are consistent, make sure that all the sizes are consistent with each other, especially since those ships have been made. The size of this has changed at least twice.
A lot of our flight-ready ships right now, the old size system doesn't apply at all really, so it's going to be a lot of new stuff, but also a lot more range to really customize your ship when we even get the first drop of these components out to you guys.