So a few weeks back a patch removed the "coming soon" ship designer button from the main menu. Now, with the game released, this button still hasn't found its way back into the game. Can we assume that this feature has been canceled entirely? Do we really need to spend 10 hours in a game with amplified research rate to unlock the largest hull, just to discover that our custom race color theme doesn't quite look the way we intended? rinse and repeat? because that is seriously disappointing...
Can't you at least unlock all the hulls in-game with a little message along the lines of "warning: you do not have access to this technology yet" or something? Can't be that hard to implement.
PS: Sorry for the grumpy first post.