No, its a bug. I have the same thing, try messing with its seed, you'll only get a handful of options, its not reading the seed proper and using one of the ships from the system you logged into. Opting into the experimental fix a couple of my ships, but my hauler and freighter are still broken, all freights I get become Blue and yellow.

my transport ship lost its wings, and had its cockpit raised, and one of my ships changed colour I think, I recall it not being blue, but I could be wrong, I pretty much took a pause from the game when they announced NEXT.

Alright, I took some time to analyse the save files of both my 2016 files and the newly generated saves as of Next update and found the following: the ship seed is the same for both of save files, nothing changed when the files were converted to the new version, neither when I was spawned back at the planet I were, so apparently messing with the ship seed is not recommended, otherwise you could lose your current ship design.

Something's messed up in the seed system like @WarMachine says.

I'll see if I'm able to return to the world where I found the first ship design and test it there.

Just a headsup to those interested: after updating the game to 1.51, the ship DID NOT revert to its original design.

It appear something has changed in the ship assembly algorithm, or some ship parts do not exist anymore, because I tried to reseed my ship using an editor, and many ship parts appear to be invalid, creating entirely different designs.

I don't believe ship seed is related here because it is basically the same, it's just the design which has changed.

IDK if this really works but ever since I had an issue, I made sure to rename all my ships, so far no problems.

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

IDK if this really works but ever since I had an issue, I made sure to rename all my ships, so far no problems.

Are you saying renaming was enough to reset the ship back to its original design?

Originally posted by Charles Albert of NodeCorny:

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

IDK if this really works but ever since I had an issue, I made sure to rename all my ships, so far no problems.

Are you saying renaming was enough to reset the ship back to its original design?

no, I thought you meant a bug where your ship would randomly change into something else. Many of the old ships parts are not there as you said. Renaming has kept my ships from changing into something else with yhe current parts.

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

Originally posted by Charles Albert of NodeCorny:

Are you saying renaming was enough to reset the ship back to its original design?

no, I thought you meant a bug where your ship would randomly change into something else. Many of the old ships parts are not there as you said. Renaming has kept my ships from changing into something else with yhe current parts.

Ah, yes, I see. This, eh..."bug" also causes names to be changed as well, apparently. Did not bother to create a custom name for my ship, though.

Originally posted by Charles Albert of NodeCorny:

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

no, I thought you meant a bug where your ship would randomly change into something else. Many of the old ships parts are not there as you said. Renaming has kept my ships from changing into something else with yhe current parts.

Ah, yes, I see. This, eh..."bug" also causes names to be changed as well, apparently. Did not bother to create a custom name for my ship, though.

I t has helped me 100% though.
What s weir d whwn I buy a new sip and rename it. The next ship in the stastion is the same model and has the sane name as the original ship I just bought...weird right

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

Originally posted by Charles Albert of NodeCorny:

Ah, yes, I see. This, eh..."bug" also causes names to be changed as well, apparently. Did not bother to create a custom name for my ship, though.

I t has helped me 100% though.
What s weir d whwn I buy a new sip and rename it. The next ship in the stastion is the same model and has the sane name as the original ship I just bought...weird right

Very weird, indeed. @WarMachine has said above it might have something to do with the current system seed, because ship seeds also change according to the system. Both things might be linked, I don't know.

Originally posted by Charles Albert of NodeCorny:

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

I t has helped me 100% though.
What s weir d whwn I buy a new sip and rename it. The next ship in the stastion is the same model and has the sane name as the original ship I just bought...weird right

Very weird, indeed. @WarMachine has said above it might have something to do with the current system seed, because ship seeds also change according to the system. Both things might be linked, I don't know.

Yea. One of my haulers got changed to a hauler from the system I was in. Though it kept the original seed. I found the freighter issue to be an error with the way the game handles NPC seeds. While I wasn't able to fix mine, I was able to get it back to a similar appearance. Next trip into the json files I'll look at the hauler.

The same thing happened with mine, only slightly. The markings changed and so did the name. I kind of like the new name, but I miss the old marks.

New
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1461452451

Old
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=744494949
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=744574393

Last picture, on launch you could trick the game into giving you upgraded version of your current ship. I abused the hell out of it because I love it so much.

The solar system however had a drastic change. Use to be Korvax controlled. Now it's Gek. I also lost everything Korvax related. Including words learned.

I'm new ! heard a lot about the game , then saw , and bought , did not regret ! thank you !

Before NEXT update, i had a really big A Class Cargo, but after the update, each time i tried to take off of the cargo with my space ship, it get stuck in the roof of the hangar --------> so i had to change my cargo, with loady of regrets......