[Phoenix-D]

If you have time compression turned on, the AI collision avoidence gets REALLY bad. Other than that they do ok, though I haven't found a method to reduce the collisions.

Try switching to safe mode on the menu issue.

Not currently, no. It isn't quite gibberish, though. Those Messages are trigged based on how that ship is doing and what its doing.

I'd think loading the demo would work fine..but if you patched you need to add the extra stuff from the patches first.

The storyline provides most of the direction for the game.

The Amonkrie, Pirates, and Xiati will always try to kill you, and the Neutrals, Abbidon and Terrans will always be your friends. That simple unfortunately. I'm working on modding this, but have hit a few snags; I have it set so if you kill two starbases the Terrans try to kill you, but after killing one SF races to the end of the event tree and they go after you.

EDIT: fixed that problem. Adding an extra event in the middle worked. Huh. Anyway, the races WILL shoot at you if you shoot at them, but if you stop shooting after a while they do too.

No must-have mods yet, I'd say, though SJ's P&N mod is interesting. No mod launching programs, since that's built into SF itself- all the mods are contained within different campaign folders.

[ February 12, 2004, 21:14: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]