The ship models of other players being displayed on my client aren't matching up with the hud descriptions, or server reality.

Specifically I've determined that I'm seeing the hog model for vulturiuses and the vulture in place of valks. Could be others. My hud description of the target ship is correct.

It's something being attacked by a zippy hog with 2 small ports.

Now that I think about it ... I probably missed an update. Would that do it? I'll check when I get home today.

Perhaps the server should check your client version and kick you if you don't match. Sometimes I just leave the game running when I log out, maybe an update happened while it was in this state and so I bypassed the check when I logged back in.

Something like this happened to me when I'd failed to actually quit the game after the server kicked me off to update. Except I had tace-track tubes instead of station parts. Mind you, this was quite a while ago.

Yes, you missed an update. And it does check with the server, but this update was done while the game was in a kind of half-apart state while we're working on stuff, so we didn't change version numbers though we should have.

I was almost sure Hoax was pulling a hoax on me. 0.o