although uncommonly seen flying around, just as an example, the Rheinland Battleship, when I did this to it, said it lost over Eleven THOUSAND, -~DOUBLE~- Vertices...
thats alot >.>
think of the lag reduction (without any quality loss) that would make to do this to every ship?
afterall, their appearance is completely 100% unaltered after this process, but they have thousands less vertices floating around.