http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php?title=Partisan < - Coalition ships stem from a different design background than the rest of Sirius. Same with Gallia. Also, Coalition ships are recieving new models next version.
Some of those are import some of them are not. There are many more, I would say that don't match the Art work of freelancer 100%. Not all of them are bad, not all of them are good. You're going to get that. I would say this matches a bit more than almost anything on this list of ships. And I would also go as far as to toot my own horn and say it looks pretty damn good, for a side project hobby ship I did in my spare time. I made this ship, I made the texture. This ship is 100% my own, there are not a lot of ships that can say that on this mod.
And there are some really bad ships out there, that this could easily replace. But I guess it doesn't fit well enough. Sorry, next time I make a ship I'll just rip some more textures off of freelancer hit map all and slap'em on there like so many other ships I've seen. Saves me some damn time anyways. With crappy stretched, or squished textures, that don't align properly and take up more then a megabyte of space. It will look like someone botched the texture job on a freelancer ships, but hey the textures look exactly the same as another ship. So we can all be happy.
Whatever, this is obviously not worth my time any more to do it properly. Since, I don't match everyones expectations exactly. No sense in adding a ship that looks like another import.
So your argument is that because there are other ships that don't meet the design standard then it's okay for you to ignore it as well? Most of those models were added before such a standard was in place, back when imports were added as space holders, back when we had few modellers. Well, we got an excess of decent modellers now. I think we can afford to pick and choose...
We're aiming to improve the quality of the mod, not keep it at the present level. I don't see much point in replacing an import with a model that will probably need to be replaced again further down the track. Know the Tiger Shark and Virage? They would have been awesome once too.