Smong

If you did do a barrel roll you could make it so your ships fly above all weapons (and maybe even walls). It probably won't happen because it means someone will have to make the graphics.

If a SSC zone started deleting files off players computers I think they would get taken off SSC (so there plugin privilege will be removed). Maybe it's possible for the client to remove some malicious function calls before executing the code? Rather like emulators changing the function addresses and stuff. Or someone could make a separate utility program to warn on bad code, then zone owners would get the choice to use someone's plugin or not without having to know about programming.

How about only SSC zones can use this feature (with a special server that won't be made public). Developers would be given a modified client with the sensitive stuff removed so that they can run a test server to test out their plugin. Since they are running the server on their own machine they can give themselves VIP/sysop to allow the special client.

Tweak UI can take things out of the new menu, I don't know if it works on XP though.

Like what? Only plugins the server specifies can be run, there will obviously be a checksum (for the download process) and the thing that says "you cannot rename/move this file as it is in use" dialog when you try to overwrite it with a different dll.

What about rogue ops hosting servers with bad plugins? The client downloads the plugin from the server, and then anything could happen.

You could set multifireenergy higher than maximumenergy and have it in the news.txt so people don't complain that their guns don't work.

Looking at the available do-*BAD WORD*-ents I can't see how the server can specify what normal greens contain. The client always spawns the greens that you see on the screen. Only the contents of the kill green can be set via the kill/death packet. If the server was modified to send new packets or extra kill packets the existing client wouldn't understand them.

I don't think they even add 1 line, the file size of the pre-releases are always the same (but that could be something to do with security/checksums).