Hello from a Newb

[Gargamel]

IMO, unless you are going for a a more gamey feel, try to play without that mod. Yeah it sucks for a while, but you get used to it, and it adds more tension and challenge to the game. Having that unknown contact appear, and then trying to figure out if it's worth killing, or if it's going to kill you is a lot of fun for me.

But as it should be the mantra of this forum, play the game as you want to play it. Everybodys definition of fun is different.

Sometimes searching these forums is hard. You have to have the exact wording.

If you are having trouble using the search, sometimes use google. Subsim forums are frequently at the top of the list, and if that doesn't work add "site:subsim.com" (I forget the exact syntax though), it will search only ss.c, and it frequently provides better results than our built in search.