>>>NVG: I am aware of difference in equipment quality for regulars and elites
and that insane difficulty causes higher tier equipment for elites,
but never stole or even found NVG III at this progress lvl in quite a lot 1.13 campaings. with same settings.
It would be reasonable to me if the game had NVG far beyond lvl IV,
so there is still something cool to find/steal/buy/whatever at high progress lvl.
Thats why i play with item progress set to minimum, as part of the fun goes down for me when the loot becomes obsolete.

>>>Uncover distance: Why not let us players determine our desired distance,
if you want to avoid any additional .ini/cfg/whatever file, command line parameters may be a way.
If you want to prevent exploit/cheats, see below.
(although no exploit comes into my mind, i am sure there is one, besides using one of the abundant smoke grenades)
At least its good to know the number and that time is a cooldown factor.

btw cooldown, suspicion increase during real time@zero alert could be somewhat(up to 25%?) higher,
while nerfing it(to 1/2 - 1/4) during high alert may be reasonable.
(got several instant disguise drops on entering vision field,
even with otherwise "naked" civilan which, as i understand it, should cause lowest suspicion)
I also got the impression of a general suspicion increase either over time or with passed turns,
if so that may be the main reason.

>>>Lag:
Game was installed as usual: external usb hd, fresh dld of 7435+7609 from pbworks on top of a fresh JA2 Gold(1.10) install.
Tested on 2 different Thinkpads, both running fine, so hardware issues should be excluded.
The master dares to say that these machines work flawless and his manual OS&driver installs on them are rather perfect;)
Used Win XP and 7 to exclude stuff related to a specific OS.
Malware is next to impossible, both machines have never been connected to a network or unscannned drives.
Will try it on a desktop of a friend to also exclude tweaks on the notebooks(which have never been an issue so far)