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> 1) I haven't yet bothered to upgrade my copy of C&C, and the copy I
>    bought shows a version no. of 1.07. What difference would an 
>    upgrade make, and if I do upgrade should I choose the most recent
>    patch?

Upgrading to 1.18 increases the cost of the Nod turret, partially fixes the Nod nuke bug, fixes 
the silo-selling bug and fixes problems with USR modems in multiplayer games. I haven't yet 
upgraded to 1.19 - but there have been several posts detailing the fixes this offers (nuke 
problem cured and build anywhere bug patched)
 
> 2) People have mentioned using Kali to play C&C over the net - would
>    the trans-Atlantic link make it too slow for a UK player to play
>    against people in the US? And if so, is there a server anywhere 
>    where I can find UK (or European) opponents?

I have only played to successful (i.e link with other player maintained for duration of the 
game) out of about 10 attempts. C&C over Kali seems fairly unstable at the best of times - but 
transatlantic links make things a lot worse. I too subscribe to Demon - the bad news being they 
currently suffer from massively over-subscribed transatlantic bandwith, the good news is that 
they are planning major upgrades soon. For the time being I've given up on C&C over kali and 
play Descent (over kali) most of the time. There does seem to be a growing number of U.K players 
but no sign of a dedicated kali server yet. The nearest one seems to be in Poland - but I 
haven't tested this yet so can't tell you if it's any better than the 
American/Australian/Canadian servers.

BTW I've just been accepted as a tester for B.T's new Wireplay service - one of the games they 
asked if I had was C&C - so I'm hoping this will be playable over Wireplay. I'll keep you 
posted.

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Nick Ferrar
a.k.a FuzzyLogic - see you at Kali Central