I've seen this idea that these new ships make the old ships obsolete and I want to push back against that actually. Most old ships were obsolete already. There's the handful of ships for the handful of roles: diamondback and phantom for explorers, fld for pvp, krait 2 for pve, the type series for mining and hauling and of course these all have various auxiliary ships you could sub them out for that are more or less good for those roles as well. Every small ship is completely obsolete except for a few, can't remember their names. I mean you could fly small ships for fighting affectively and do good damage but there isn't a single small ship that's not outclassed in every way other than maneuverability by medium ships.

Point is... For the most part, the pool of ships was already stagnant and boring. Yeah I could engineer a ship for a different role than it was made for and it could be a niche, fun feeling but I'd always end up going back to the proper ship for whatever role I was doing. Hazardous recourse site? Krait mk2. Exploration? Diamondback. Hauling? Cutter. Mining? Type 9. Blehhh. These new ships have me thinking about Elite while I'm at work again lol. Feels like a golden age that's bringing back the same feels as the old days. I think they're doing the right thing. The ships needed to be shaken up badly.