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Hehe, so now might be the time to finally get into the real meaning of this story, and start 2008 by solving that long forgotten mystery : why on earth would someone use a valuable IBD for a ship model ... or where do all these *blessed* ship models really come from?
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I have two ship models just called "Ship Model" (no "A") that are both blessed. I am 100% certain that they are just old drydocked ships. I've never bought a ship from anyone other than an npc, never used a trick to HTML tag anything, and definitely never owned a IBD. What I can't remember is whether I named the ship "Ship Model" at the time I drydocked it or whether it had some other name that just got replaced by the generic ship model name. The former is most likely though.