the junk pirates... are aptly named. their ships look like they were cobbled together from junk, which they apparently were. i respect the mod itself, but i... just cant force myself to like any of it's ships. keep in mind this is coming from a guy who regularly builds chrome plated abstract space art that i call spaceships, so maybe the aesthetics are a personal thing. or maybe im too used to the BSF forums where even the mid grade shipbuilder's creations would be considered top of the line ships by SS standards. and maybe that's part of why i want to convert all those beautiful BSF spaceships and factions into actual SS mod factions...
I agree that it is your personal sense of aesthetics. There are plenty of mods already that have very sleek figures, including ships in this mod itself (ASP & PACK). If I had to agree though, I'd say that rather than incorporating halves of whole ships, and looking oddly new and shiny, I feel like they could be cobbled together from existing ships, with some pieces missing, or hastily replaced with metal or exposed mechanics. As they are though, I don't really mind.
Anyway, to the author, a friend and I had an idea to make the Junk Pirates more interesting; it may be possible to create hull mods for their ships that give bonuses to loot from battles, of some kind. I figure they and their ships would be good at making use of every piece they can get.
Thanks for readin'!