Alrighty, Here's a quick compendium of Need To Know things to get the mod going:

1) Regardless of your other settings, make sure your viewdistance is 100%
2) If no servers are showing up on the online list press the Advanced tab, deselect everything but "same mod" and hit "update list"
3) If you cannot see floating icons for capital ships or the nav point on hoth space, press the left Alt key.
4) Crashes are not uncommon!  Best thing to do is to just get back into the game or find a different server.  We'll have a patch out as soon as we've nailed down everything.  On that note spacemaps are more stable than ground.  DON"T DEPLOY GUNS WITH THE OFFICER CLASS! Speederbikes are also questionable
5) Singleplayer does not work.  If you want to practice offline go to multiplayer-local-create  and start a CONQUEST game

Ok, if anyone has anything else add it here.

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