[Shadow99]

Jubala I've used UEdit before, but It did more than I needed... My preffered app is Cetus CNotepad, but even though it creates plain ascii text files I get errors when I edit SE4 in that app... Even the edit command in DOS tells me they are standard txt files, but apparently that isn't enough so I use MS's tools for the moment...

& Baron indeed I did... I sectioned Shields into many types of specialty Shields (ECM, System, Cloaking, good old Phased, etc) which each required 2 tech areas to develop...

I guess this is something it would be nice for MM to fix... & I'll resend a note about my prob to MM with what seems to be the prob tomorrow if I can...

thanks