It seems Im a bit late, but can we lay off the personal attacks with little basis please?  Here i am absent for a while, and this goes on in my leave ... doesn't exactly make me want to stick around...

I very much like the vague sentience of the Mycon, their interesting dialogue, and their very kickass Precursors theme.

Very neat.

Legacy  CD players can only read CD-Rs written at half the speed of their read.   You should not have to worry about this unless your CD drive predates 1998.

Tenser-vector-scalar gravity breaks several "rules" of conventional gravity.

The game wasn't too bad for the five minutes it worked before some crippling bug crashed it.

Even Daggerfall wasn't that buggy.  And Daggerfall at least had some redeeming features.

I remain convinced that I may have to turn Activision's studios into a parking lot.

I, being bipedal, have decided to use my legs to optimum effectiveness.

I am not a fan of running.  It wastes fuel and if it is a fight you can win, then it also wastes the RU you could be making off salvage.  Waste, waste, waste.

I grew up on Tolkien, and he always will be the grandfather of the genre.

Right-click the icon to the game.  Select "Properties"  Where it says "Target", add the --remix command to the end.

Perhaps, good faith to the community can bring it's own rewards, though.

Anne McCaffery is perhaps one of the most stuck up people I have ever had the displeasure of meeting in that miserable existence we call "real life."

Which is okay, because her books are Dragonlance, but sans the interesting parts.  Raistlin, for the win!

Frankly I would just put it up as a donate-basis, like most of the old shareware.  You'll find a lot of people won't bother, but many thast do, tend to give above and beyond what you may expect

As to networking, if you're not worried about cross-platform support, DirectPlay works very well in Windows and is easy to implement.

The ship builder is the only fun point, the rest of it is just another civ rehash.

At least Alpha Centauri was interesting