[Shadowstar]

I wonder about the sizes involved. Models are bigger than pictures, and putting as many ships into an SE5 set as a SE4 set will undoubtedly result in much larger shipset files. For most people, this wouldn't be a concern, but I run PBEM games, and require players using non-stock shipsets to send them to me (either attached or as a link). My email provider can't accept files larger than 5mb in an email, and once I have all the sets, I put them together and send them to the players before the game starts so that everyone can see the ships. The bigger the sets are, the more demanding this file becomes. I don't want to stick my 56k players with hours of downloading just to play in my game.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see more variety, I'd just like everyone to keep an eye on the file sizes, and I don't think lowering texture resolution is the best option. I'd rather have a few less ships in a sharp-looking shipset than a few more ships in a fuzzy looking shipset.