Well, that's sort of right.
The ship exploding thingie HAS been removed but it's only half the problem.
EGOSOFT put in an anti-cheating routine in one of the early patches.
As far as I recall it checks if the exe file was modified.
There's a ranking system in the game that sets your relation to other races.
You have to increase this rank (by blowing up pirates, mostly) to be able to land in the space stations belonging to two of the most important races, but the anti-cheat routine sets the ranking to 0 (harmless) and keeps it there.
(Actually I think it was made to stop people from creating super-spaceships, not as a copy-prot.)
This guy Stone-D has removed it but without removing the copy-prot.
More info about it at http://l33t.mine.nu/stone-d/x-tension/xtpatch.htm
Anti-cheat File is at http://l33t.mine.nu/stone-d/files/XTPatch10.zip
You CAN play the game but about half of it will be missing if the anti-cheat isn't removed.
Them crazy germans locked this baby up reeaal good ;-)
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BOT-CK (05-01-2001 15:14):
Class said this is a full working crack.
And all these shit exploding ships....
are fixed.
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