a few questions

[Ursus]

Thanks for the info. Some more info/followup below

I'm using FLMM 1.31 and it works fine. I am also able to use the launcher. What does not work is running the game directly. The game starts okay but the 4.85 version number of the servers is red and the servers are greyed out. There are a couple of possible explanations--one is that the launchers are passing additional (necessary) parameters, another possibility has to do with the way Vista and Win7 prohibit some types of shared memory overwrites (but that doesn't explain why the launchers still work). Curious about why it doesn't work

Widescreen support works with the launcher, so I will use that instead of FLMM

The whole persistent versus dice thing... go to a hostile sector and dock. Now hop out and see if there is spawn, then quckly dock and undock again, and the spawn that was there 5 seconds earlier will be gone or will be replaced by new spawn. That is dynamic spawn, and is not persistent. HOWEVER if some other player is nearby then the server does not create and delete random spawn like this (also seems to be affected by NPC patrol traffic). So basically the game creates dynamic spawn if you are the only persistent mobile around. This is my observation based on limited game time so may be wrong, but near as I can tell it is accurate. It also seems to affect a bunch of other things (eg, cargo time--let yourself get killled and immediately respawn and exit the base, your cargo will be gone along with the dynamic spawn).

Some of the custom maps have accurate patrol routes in the nav screen (EG, Newcastle). I had assumed that these were generated automatically when the patrol routes were laid out but maybe it is an extra step. Anyway I like having them so consider it a request for whoever to review the maps

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