to be a bit more detailed about why there is that policy about no reimbursements.
firstly - i will not say it is fair or unfair.. or lets say... yea - it is unfair kind of. but it has been like that ever since.
back in the days when igiss ran the show - we moved ships from one faction to another if it made sense - deleted stuff or removed it from sale. - the affected players were usually given a period of grace to adjust their things ( sell it to the vendor or delete it ).
to start exchanging assets because of change now would be unfair to past generations who had to deal with it, but even if those past generations did not care - like aerelm said... it is admins work to seek out players and swap their stuff or reimburse.
i am not sure if there can be a macro to sell the stuff, - not sure cause we never did it before. personally i do not think it is necessary as the loss is fairly managable for most players who have the money to fly a battleship.
in terms of stats:
no idea.... i guess we will not exceed the 5k cargolimit, so the whale remains the top transport for zoners. we will also most likely not go overboard with experimentation in terms of hybrid loadouts ( if any [see necrosis])
when will it happen?
not the next update for sure... this thread is a FYI - and depending on whats left to do it might be update 7 ( thats the update after the next one if we keep miniupdating the mod )
first ... let it go
second ... you asked who was contacted and if any efford was made to contact the leaders - and i wrote you that yes - it was made an efford to tell the leaders exactly that. we did a lot more than is our job in that case to get in touch with the leaders and push them to fight for their stuff - much more than we may have done for other factions - cause yes, we knew that once we started to actually DO something about it - ppl would crawl out of their little hiding holes and start ranting how surprisingly unfair life is.