Neither do I, but if I find out a way to make something that gels with the game, it'll be easier to pull it off the next time, and the next time, and so on and so forth.

Sad, but very true.

I've just started tooling around with the XML files for Transcendence, and have made a few ships of my own. However, ships I have made thus far have just used the ship models from the game. Running around in a Corsair-II or an Ares heavy gunship with modified weapons and statistics is entertaining, ...