I don't understand people who say the current models are nice. I mean seriously people have you seen one of them close up? It's a box with two wings from its corners. The texture job is disappointing, the hitbox is tragic, the size is horrid. Those are the current coalition fighters in a nutshell. Yes, I liked the shape of the coalition fighters in the freelancer intro, but I studied them during my own attempt to recreate them (which sadly failed due to lack of time on my part) and believe me when I say that the current SCRA fighters have *nothing* in common with the ones in the intro. The wing pattern is at most vaguely similar, it was done totally differently in the intro. Study it and see.
The new ones? Look nice, nicer texture (aye), a fitting hitbox. They might not be perfect, but they are a thousandfold improvement.
Also the actual reason why we didn't want to keep the red star is because of a superior logo devised by Izaak. It looks more freelancerish this way.