Returning player, major changes?

so I started playing star conflict again, and im not sure if its me but I think theres some dramatic changes with the ships. never mind the rebalancing

 

did they give more synergy levels for each ship? I left with all t1 and t2 ships maxed out.

 

did they get rid of several mods? for w/e reason I have almost 4x the amount of  cash that I recall having when I left

 

did they remove ships? I could have sworn there was more.

 

thanks

Go read all patch notes beginning at 7.9 a lot of changes have happend since then, a lot of bad changes IMO, but a lot of changes anyway.