I disagree on that game strongly encourage that player on "normal" fleet, this game attracted people like me that like to go nuts with economic,my goal before Knowing that officers part was to build a massive network of colony for supply and cash, that cost never bother me .
Anyway i think best solution is in a fight with multiple fleet is count for each side max 8-10 officers and in that end game fight are always split 50-50 , with this is more important having a balance fleet with ships that can take that battlefield objective.
One more thing dev know that problem with battlefield objective that Spawn too much at random favouring massively One side