Now, down to noob business. Of course I have a few questions, and I have searched through the forums but couldn't find anything which really answered them and with the wiki offline I'm a bit stuck for help.
Eye candy
I have a decent rig (E8400 processor, ATI HD4890 gfx card on 10.3 drivers all under Win7) so I was looking at OXPs to make things look a little better. I picked up Famous Planets 2.0, Griffs Ships compilation by Ms Sma, System Redux and Your Add Here thanks to a search through Google's cache of the wiki. I also got hold of Neolite's ships as that was mentioned in some posts but I've been switching it with Griff's as I'm guessing they are mutually exclusive. I thought Griff's was supposed to be the top quality version, however when I used 'v' for an external view of my ship it was a dull flat grey. Also the dodecahedral space stations appear just as a flat greyish pink. Both these models actually looked better when I had Neolite's ships installed. The standard space station looked the same either way. Am I missing something?
Controls
I found the sensitivity of the controls a bit too much. I only had to look at the mouse and I would head into a barrel roll and simply tapping the keyboard for yaw, pitch or roll would make it feel as though the ship was being steered by an overly enthusiastic drunken gorilla. Is there a way of adjusting the sensitivity somehow? Or should I just man up and go buy a joystick? While I find docking easy enough combat is nigh on impossible - line up behind the bad guy, match speeds, just need to centre the crosshairs, left a bit, no no no now right, oh godammit back left again, now up just a touch, no you twitchy piece of balsa wood now down a bit etc etc etc you get the picture. Which finally brings me on to...
Combat
I'll start by saying I am no twitch gamer, but I do play my fair share of FPSes so I'm not a complete mug. However after a few hours of doing the honourable thing and running away I finally managed to build up enough cash by the usual furs/liquor/computers trades (slaves? Where did they come from? They can't be mine officer
