I have an open mind on the visual sensors. The RFB visual sensors aren't that different, and they are working on them to eliminate the undesirable side effects. I'm sure when they're finished, if Duci were still working on TMO they would be virtually identical.
I think the enemy AI should be priority number one. Then when we plug TMOkeys, TMOplot and TMOai into RFB we'll see by trial and terror whether it will be necessary to make any other adjustments. I'm thinking that we would just be blindly guessing if we decided to make adjustments now. Like you said, the AI will be enough of a bear all by itself!
In the meantime, it looks to me like TMO itself needs a daddy. claybirdd, if you and others were to take on TMO, my goal would be to keep TMOkeys, TMOplot and TMOai current with future versions of TMO, not just a time capsule of what TMO was.
I'm off to test TMOplot 2.0!