Gytrash's rant.

[Dead Reckoning]

So wait, is it about the ship's capability or just it being ugly now?
A lot of ships have been remodeled without warning. A lot. And many more will be.

I'd say it's both.

The current idea suggests that we go from a self-sufficient colony ship that can handle its own defensive tasks in an elegantly designed ship to a ship which will almost certainly require escorts (on a server that is hurting for population, that is difficult) and appears as though Livadia pieced together whatever pieces of scrap were floating by. A happy medium exists of reducing the Nephs defensive capabilities which some misuse as offensive capabilities. Reducing heavies would still let it defend it self, but would certainly take away some offensive teeth.

Also it's hard to maintain RP of a long lived ship handed down through generations, knowing every bolt and then suddenly have every bolt on it change and maintain that familiarity. Remodels have typically been fairly similar to the one they are replacing in my experience.