[Artaud]

I think (he can correct me if I'm wrong) Thorfrog is concerned about graphic representations of different hull classes. A myriad of hull upgrade possibilities is nice, but some people like the different appearance of different types of hulls. I'm one of those people.

It's less fun if you have fewer visual representations of hull types. I personally would rather have cruisers represented by one icon, battlecruisers by a second and battleships represented by a third than have several classes of cruiser hulls represented by a single icon. Lots of hull upgrades for cruisers (all using the same ship icon), and then moving to a battleship icon with lots of upgrades but no change in icon appearance, is just not my personal cup of tea.