2Jinx: It's better to drop the new Raider idea, no one wants anymore ships from shows, especially as familiar as this one.
2Xing: Ships with Soviet-themed names (and Soviet-looking) won't be included into the mod. It's something that I'd like to avoid. If you wish something Coalition-specific, use other trends that can possibly be connected with the Coalition.
2Doom: Your services on creating icons for new ships will probably be necessary.
I would ask to submit ships with hardpoints created in Milkshape. During previous versions' development, there were lots of situations when hardpoints had to be re-created from scratch many times only because bugs were found in older model revisions. This practice should come to an end. If you cannot setup hardpoints in Milkshape, you have two options: 1) ask someone else, and 2) carefully setup hardpoints in HardCMP before submitting each version of your ship.
Release date: It's hard to estimate, but in theory you can already start submitting your models. This thread: will now become pinned.
