I've been going through the blog and in the post from September 4th of last year theres a post about Ship loadouts, in that there is mention that we can save our designs for future use.
Could we potentially see the AI using our own designs against us if we do well with that design? Say i outfit a Hammerhead really well and its unstoppable on the field of battle will the game record how well this design is doing and have AI fleets start to spawn with my amazing hammerhead design to keep the battles exciting? Hopefully the game will be able to track what designs do well and what designs do poorly and slowly phase out the poor performance designs. In universe reasoning would be the captains see the statistics to what performs and what doesn't and are outfitting accordingly.