[DrBeast]

@Doolittle: For starters, there's more to ROW Effects than a modified zones.cfg file. What you could do is enable ROW Effects, then NSM. This will retain some ROW effects (generic modifications to explosions, smoke, etc), but you'll have the effects pertaining to the ships of the NSM mod. These are fewer than what ROW offers. My advice is, try it out as-is first (that is, enable ROW Effects first, then NSM4). What I'm trying to accomplish is combine ALL the effects of ROW with the sinking mechanism of NSM. Although I must say that if I get any satisfactory results, I'll ship the file over to billko for final evaluation and release; he offered to do it first, after all.