It seems tye disparity between levels of the same rank is too high.

System

I remeber the devs talking about having a reduce dlevel of disparity between tiers...but looking at the disparity between same ships/same tier, with captains at opposite ends of the rank spectrum(Lt Com 3 compared to Lt Com 9) is seemingoy huge.

If we ever do get to mixed tier PvP fleet engagements, how useless will our lower tier ships/captains be?

Are the buffs, bonus, skill increasess, etc to large? Where is player skill supposed to enter in as the superior to character skills and bonuses?