and now the turtle ship can't get into blitz again...  new patch

just got word from Karma, it has been disabled on this patch and removed from the live server.  They will let us know when it is brought back...

Why is this so difficult?  They had it working, it worked great, and it wasn't OP.  I brought it into a blitz and had some fun with it for a couple of days but i never pwned the whole room.  While it can dish out some punishment, it has short range, low durability, terrible angles, and dies a quick and horrible death.  I was able to get nearly 20k attk once but i had to drive like the Stig and convince the other team to shoot at someone else for a while.  Once attention shifted onto me, I rarely lasted more than 30 seconds in a firefight.

I don't understand why they've disabled it.  What went wrong?

I chased this up and the Turtle was removed from Blitz due to an issue where it was sometimes contributing to room crashes.  The Devs believe they have fixed that and the fix is in testing at the moment.  If that goes well the intent will be to return the Turtle to Blitz.

Probably not firez.

Well I'm certain I can speak for everyone that has a Turtle when I say, Damn. Please try to change it's status from Unique if it's at all (reasonably) possible.
I have used my turtle surely many times over the years, but it's still a load of crock that it takes away the entire *ability* to use rentals. Is it possible to hide it (like in HQ/item list for example) somehow temporarily? 
I have no idea how many rentals I could have used by now from HAs, literally, just because I already have a frigate I got as a prize (A prize that cost me during an event, no less)? I hope that realization isn't lost somewhere. 
Glad to see it in Blitz though :D fun is good. Fun is good for Navyfield.