Actually, antialiasing is not a very good idea since it creates shaded edges which Continuum cannot draw with proper transparency. So with anti-aliased ship rotators, edges might look crappy. Depends on the ship though, I guess. Some might look great.
Right now, the most required thing is C# coders. We don't have that many. Any ideas should go in the ideas topic here. Nothing else is really needed at this stage but I'll keep you in mind for when the time comes
You mean you want to convert that image into a ship? Well you'll have to draw the ship manually then. There is no software that could automatically do this. Unless you mean that you have a 3d model. In that case, just render it facing straight up from the top and then you can use a ship rotator program to automatically generate rotations for it.
Ah, I believe that is indeed some very very old program that did not work well at all. The best way to make ships is with a professional graphics program like Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. You'd have much better luck with these.
Could you describte exactly what happens? Also, this might help: turn on caps lock and scroll lock when starting Continuum. Try to enter a zone and then exit. After that, zip the ssdebug.log file in the Continuum directory and post it here.
If you can find a FREE program like that... sure. And if it was updated like every day or so (because it would be hacked in under a week normally...). But I doubt such things exist. Would prevent stupid cheaters though.
You do not need an IP address. Make sure the last part of your server.ini (the directory part) has the correct port (4991) and addresses. Also, if that does not fix it, what is the name of your zone?