You know who needs some love? The Shivans that's who. That's why they're so pissed off, they have to fly around in those retail ships.
Yeah I've been thinking of redoing the Dragon so people couldn't go 'why remodel already upgraded ships when there are retail shivan ships?!?!?!'
Because honestly, there are still a lot of Terran and Vasudan ships without new models, and only a few with new models are actually decent. In fact, I can name and show several examples of ships with upgrades that don't look much better than the model which they replace, such as the Apollo, Herc II, Ares, Erinyes, Chronos, TAC 1, Ursa, the list goes on. It's not like I'm the only modeler for the FSU anyway, so while others do models for ships without them (VA, etc) I can do them for the ships which have out-dated upgraded models at the same time.

Medusa, left is the old upgrade, right is retail. Polycount difference? 4.6k triangles for the upgrade, less than 500 for the retail model.

TAC 1, upgradedmodel has 700, retail has 27 triangles.

Chronos, upgraded model has 2.8k triangles, retail has 412.
Considering how recent the Chronos and TAC 1 are, though, it seems they were modeled far too conservatively, which may have made a good upgrade for 2005, really doesn't work now in these days with the MVP's increasing standards