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This is a known issue that we unfortunately cannot fix outside of making a subset of Bustard-specific engines to replace the current ones. The Cultist engines aren't only used on Bustards but also on Battlecruisers. Changing their impulse speed would break a few too many things.
Ok, so you guys don't know how to fix this, or more like can't be arsed to fix it, because you already mentioned the solution, and this shouldn't take more than half an hour to do. Now people gotta stick with an aesthetic feature that costs metric tons of credits and/or time that makes the ship worse than the normal one. At least have the decency of posting a warning and providing refunds before or while the patch is being applied.
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Even if I did make some copy-pasted, reskinned 'cultist engines' for the Bustard it'd require a GM manually replacing existing ones before the fix was applied. As you may also understand these types of fancy engines are not the highest priority for us compared to buffing regular old stock Bustards. I'm sure a GM would be more than willing to move your Bustard engine off to a BC and give you a 'vanilla' engine if you made a player request.