Right, time to give my honest opinion on this one.
So I've been using it for quite awhile now, ever since it was recommended to me by...?
Anyway, I'm enjoying it, it greatly breaks away from the vanilla layouts getting rid of the boredom that they eventually suffer from. Yes, event those CE gives them, even though they often get tweaked as well.
Really like the fact that each ship still sort of sticks to a type of "fixed layout" eg. drones + suppressive weapons, cloak and quick firing weapons, missiles only stuff like that.
The color change might be subtle but still helps you realize you're flying a different ship, more points for that.
The augments : Don't know if they change to much, I tend to "re-roll" the layouts quite often though I have seen changes to them (most notably on the stealth cruiser). Don't know how big the pools are on those, don't know how big they can become without them either being able of being to OP (like the engi-cruiser starting of with a drone recovery arm or something), or having to re-roll over and over until you start with something useful.
It's great that ships with "specific augments" keep them, which is pretty important with the CE edition. Engi-cruiser lost its nanobots though, but they are available as a reward in game anyway.
Combining this mod with the Random flagship has been a great boon to the series, and really flared up a new reason to keep playing.
Things I'd like seeing changed: Well, this is all on the assumption that what I say here is actually possible. And to even be able to give some actual feedback other then just saying that everything is awesome.
Ship names : You seemed to be pretty able of naming your ship here incorporating the "Rand-" part in. Would be cool if you can get the name being drawn from a pool as well. As example, for the kestrell, keep the "-trell" part fixed. And draw from a pool for something to go in front. Making names like I don't know, Hypertrell, Quadtrell, Diotrell... (I'm not good with names). Or simply switch the names to the "Rand-" name you've given them here.
Default folder : It seems to be unable to remember where I want the .FTL file to go. Not that big of a deal really, but would like it if it remembered that I wanted it in the mods folder of Slipstream. Same goes for the Randomized flagship I believe.
As for the pinkish color on the Fed cruiser... You should totally keep that in if it isn't to late. It's a great (maybe unintentional) joke.
