For example a battleship could look a bit bigger on the screen than a scout. Or mabye the bigger the size class the more powerful the ship looks like for a Heavy Leviathan you colud identify it from a scout. Because if we can't distinguish a scout from a Collossal Galaxy Destroyer...well...hmm.....We have a little problem.

Only a suggestion remember!

So, those of us that are galaxy destroyers would be an image 1 TB large?

There isn't much space on the screen and with all the ship sizes, the "increase" would be a few pixels at best.

-1, excess coding for no real cause

that's a good point but maybe not make them look bigger, maybe just make them look more advanced

+1
I've seen the mention of different ship looks for multiple scenarios, I'd love to see it implemented regardless what the factors are.
All though -1 for the ship size in terms of big looking, quoting Vette on this one.

Perhaps as the ship becomes bigger and gets a new class, a layer of details is put on the ship. Kind've like how the shields are, except it is only a detail layer.

Ive posted an idea on this before, altho i failed to have time and the desire to find the link, but my idea was basically the same, as far as different ship design goes. I dont like the idea of the pic getting bigger, (or i may just misunderstand what you ment) but your idea and mine agree on the different ships of said species type deal, and who knows with the new planet design and, im just paraphrasing, how dan said new images are being made, this may be up and coming update.

just also throwing this out there, but i also played with the idea of being able to split into two seperate classes of ships at some point, One would be more combat oriented like the Collossal Galaxy Destroyer,which could be used against PvP, NCP, and Bases, and they other ship could be somewhat more supportive like a...Collossal Dreadnaught Carrier, which would be used for a bonus in Invasions, Colonizing, and the like. idr the specifics of the idea. just a thought.

+1 on the idea.