I just started yesterday and I currently have a wraith III. I've looked through the sticky on the suggestion forums and have also gone to the vendetta wiki site.

Maybe I just overlooked it, but I'm wondering if there will be ship modding in the future.

Like being able to add additional weapon ports, allow for extra battery ports, shield/armor enhancements, better handling/acceleration/top speed, new thrusters for evasion. Things like that. You would have to sacrafice things to add ports or add extras to your ship.

From what I've seen, there really aren't many ships available. So being able to customize your own ship would really help give some variety.

Modifications would have to take up a certain amount of space and weight. So if you had a light fighter that you added a heavy plate of armor and 2 more weapon ports, your top speed would be pathetic (like 15 - 20 m/s) same for acceleration and handling.

Also, a customizable HUD would be cool too. Colour, shape/size of things in the HUD, different crosshairs . . . etc.

I'm not sure about this, but it's possible (and a great hope of mine) that modifiable ships will be a part of the upcoming crafting system. I don't think the devs have ever promised anything definite about being able to modify your beloved craft, but I think I've seen incarnate saying something about it being a possibility in some thread, somewhere...

A customizable HUD, on the other hand, is not only a possibility, but soon to be a reality, if I've understood the current work the devs are doing on the UI system correctly. And if that happens, I have no doubt the VO community will be filled to the point of a small flooding accident with user-written interface mods. I am really looking forward to that...