Will try the game when it is less buggy. perahps in a few months.
The ship designer is an extremely limited tool. You cannot change the Hull size of designs you've made, when you save custom modules they are all mashed up into a non functional clump and not anywhere near the original configuration... If I cannot save orientations, alignments etc. then why bother creating custom mods? I can just use the standard ones and make it again in a few seconds, or save time because I have to set the various variables over again because they don't save.
I don't like the standard ship designs, and with the limited nature of the designer I'll check back in with this game after a few patches. It's not living up to expectations.