Now that we have new CP vehicles.. can we expect to see other new CP Ships, Droids etc in the near future?

Soon TM.

Ships normally come around january.

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The ships were refreshed earlier in the year. The vehicle list hadn't been updated for a year or two, so was more important - plus the community requests for new vehicles. New entities generally depend on how fast the art team can make the new images, and with R&D coming soonish they may be redirecting their efforts to making images for such entities.

For that matter, are there any plans for CP items (I mean USEABLE items, not just the Custom ones)?

not really. any CP items that gave functionality would be better served as something like NPC shop items, or something available to all.

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Any items added, would either be fluff, or require a coder to make an implementation for. Would rather just see custom items made, and save code time for other things.

Per ships, we just got a new set several months ago.