I remember in CB and OB my cruisers felt very week sauce, I could tank almost as much with my engineer/escort. Supposedly this was because the one big advantage cruisers have of large crew wasn't doing anything because all mechanics related to crew were disabled. I'm wondering if they turned this back on yet or not because I really would like to go cruiser again but I want to know that they actually do make shields/hull regen faster, energy transfer faster, and more energy to systems like we're told they were going to do.

Cruisers have a ton more crew so they do repair hull way faster than an escort

well i know they are supposed to, i was asking if this is in the game yet because last i heard it wasn't. Also it is supposed to allow faster shield regen which I haven't seen.