People attached to the old designs need to re-evaluate their opinion without nostalgia goggles. While it's easy to make missteps while rapidly prototyping new designs, I'm endeavouring to create a much more consistent standard for the art style, which mixes vanilla high tech, and the classic smooth paneling. The old kitbashes are 50% high tech bits, and making the new designs look more integrated into the game's art style is no accident. I dislike the idea of a faction that claims to be vanilla-adjacent, but has ship art that looks out of place and as if it were developed in-universe in a vacuum, like some other mods on this board.
The middle ground I'm aiming for is the style that is most satisfying for me, because I am the person spending hundreds of hours developing it. I love the ships I have created so far, the Lathe, Banshee and Lorentz (formerly TheEND) are what I consider my best work to date. I understand that thoroughly overhauling the classic mod will trim a lot of fat that people may be attached to, or just as easily have forgotten, and it is a long process. I have no intention of making "classic versions". If you want them that badly, there's always a bootleg
Any initial public version of the mod will have a very edited ship lineup. In terms of capitals I've decided to include the Banshee, Dyson and Jackhammer, any more such as the Unsung will probably be reworked at a later time, or else discarded.
feel free to make your own private skins if you can't handle the swag 
this was a joke if anyone didn't pick up on that
